Engineers of Victory: The Problem Solvers Who Turned the Tide in the Second World War (70 page)

P
AUL
K
ENNEDY
is internationally known for his writings and commentaries on global political, economic, and strategic issues. He earned his B.A. at Newcastle University and his doctorate at the University of Oxford. Since 1983, he has been the Dilworth Professor of History and director of international security studies at Yale University. He is on the editorial board of numerous scholarly journals and writes for
The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic,
and many foreign-language newspapers and magazines. Kennedy is the author and editor of nineteen books, including
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers,
which has been translated into more than twenty languages, followed by
Preparing for the Twenty-first Century
(1993) and
The Parliament of Man
(2006).