From 2014 to 2015, he held a Leverhulme Foundation Scholarship in order to complete his history of the concept of realpolitik. Kluge Center at the US Library of Congress.

Kissinger Chair in Foreign Policy at the John W. In 2015, John was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize for Politics and International Studies, which ‘recognises the achievement of outstanding researchers whose work has already attracted international recognition and whose future career is exceptionally promising’.įrom 2013 to 2014, he was the youngest ever holder of the Henry A.

Previously, he ran a series of seminars at the Foreign Office, working with the Knowledge and Information Department, at which academic experts addressed Foreign Office staff on their areas of expertise. Moreover, he runs a summer school in conjunction with the Clements Center for History, Strategy and Statecraft at the University of Texas for the next generation of foreign policy leaders. John is currently leading a project with the think tank Policy Exchange to bring more academic expertise to the foreign policy debate in Westminster, working with politicians from across the political spectrum. He has also written and presented several television and radio documentaries for the BBC was formerly a panellist on BBC’s Newsnight Review and has made regular appearances in the media for outlets such as CNN, BBC News, Sky News, Reuters, Monocle, Voice of America, and France 24. He is available for non-academic speaking events, public lectures and book fairs. John has spoken at venues around the world, including the British and European Parliament, the National Defence University and Library of Congress, and the Locarno Room of the British Foreign Office. The former Justice Secretary, Michael Gove, has described him as ‘the best historian of his generation’. Professor in History and Foreign Policy at the War Studies Department at King’s College London, John Bew is an experienced author, keynote speaker and TV and radio broadcaster.

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