John Bew teaches History and Foreign Policy at the War Studies Department at King's College London. He was the winner of the 2015 Philip Leverhulme Prize for outstanding achievement in Politics and International Studies and previously held the Henry Kissinger Chair in Foreign Policy and International Relations at the Library of Congress in Washington DC. John is a contributing writer at the New Statesman and the author of five books, including the critically-acclaimed Realpolitik: A History and Castlereagh: Enlightenment, War & Tyranny. He was born in Belfast, educated at Cambridge, and lives in East Finchley, London.
Wonderful . . . the sagacity, scholarship and charm make this a Life so nearly complete that it need never be written again - Times Literary Supplement, on CastlereaghJohn Bew is the outstanding historian of his generation. His biography of Castlereagh displays a knowledge of character, a grasp of political intrigue and a talent for storytelling any writer would envyThe most brilliant and wise political biography I have read in a long while - Wall Street Journal, on CastlereaghJohn Bew has some heavy lifting to do in this consciously revisionist take. It is a great testament to his skills as a scholar and writer that he manages to do so with such aplomb . . . Stellar - Daily Telegraph
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