Paul Kennedy este profesor de istorie la Yale University, specializat in istoria relatiilor internationale, putere economica si strategie. Dintre volumele publicate, mentionam: Conquest: The Pacific War, 1943-1945 (1973), The Samoan Tangle: A Study in Anglo-German-American Relations, 1878-1900 (1974), The Rise and Fall of British Naval Mastery (1976), The Rise of the Anglo-German Antagonism, 1860-1914 (1980), Strategy and Diplomacy, 1870-1945 (1983), Preparing for the Twenty-first Century (1993), From War to Peace: Altered Landscapes in the Twentieth Century (2000), The Parliament of Man: The Past, Present and Future of the United Nations (2006), Engineers of Victory: The Problem Solvers Who Turned the Tide in the Second World War (2013).