The Board of Directors of the Yale Club of Hartford invites you to the 2014 Annual Meeting and a special lecture with Paul Kennedy, the J. Richardson Dilworth Professor of History, Director of International Security Studies at Yale, and Distinguished Fellow of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy. Prof. Kennedy coordinates the ISS programs funded by the Smith Richardson Foundation. He is internationally known for his writings and commentaries on global political, economic, and strategic issues.
Born in June 1945 in the northern English town of Wallsend, Northumberland, he obtained his BA at Newcastle University and his DPhil at the University of Oxford. He is a former Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton University, and of the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, Bonn. He holds many honorary degrees, and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was made Commander of the Order of the British Empire (C.B.E.) in 2000 for services to History and elected a Fellow of the British Academy in June 2003.
Prof. Kennedy is on the editorial board of numerous scholarly journals and writes for The New York Times, The Atlantic, and many foreign-language newspapers and magazines. His monthly column on current global issues is distributed worldwide by the Los Angeles Times Syndicate/Tribune Media Services.
He is the author or editor of nineteen books, including The Rise of the Anglo-German Antagonism, The War Plans of the Great Powers, The Realities Behind Diplomacy, and Preparing for the Twenty-First Century. His best-known work is The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, which provoked an intense debate on its publication in 1988 and has been translated into over twenty languages.
In 1991, he edited a collection entitled Grand Strategies in War and Peace. He helped draft the Ford Foundation-sponsored report issued in 1995, The United Nations in Its Second Half-Century, which was prepared for the fiftieth anniversary of the UN. His latest book, The Parliament of Man: The Past, Present and Future of the United Nations, was published in 2006 by Random House.
Prof. Kennedy has finished a book on operational history of the Second World War and is beginning a study of Rudyard Kipling.
WHEN: Wednesday, May 14, 2014. 5:30 pm - 8:00 pm. Cocktails (cash bar) begin at 5:30 pm followed by a buffet dinner and our speaker.
WHERE: Hartford Golf Club, 134 Norwood Road, West Harford, CT
COST: $55.00 per person. Includes buffet dinner and dessert. A cash bar is available.
RSVP: No later than Wednesday, May 7th.
For more information, please contact the Yale Club of Hartford at: hartford.yale.club@gmail.com or visit www.alumni.yale.edu/clubs/hartford for more information.
This is our biggest Club event of the year. It is a wonderful way to reconnect with old Yale friends and to make some new friends. We look forward to seeing you!
