John Kent has taught at the Universities of Aberdeen and Strathclyde and, for the last 27 years, at the London School of Economics. He has been an editor in the major research project undertaken by the British Documents on the End of Empire Project, in which he was responsible for the three-part set of volumes on Egypt and the Defence of the Middle East. He has written research monographs on British Imperial Strategy and the Origins of the Cold War, and on British, American, French, and Belgian policy to West Africa and the Congo from 1939-64. He is also the co-author, with John Young, of International Relations since 1945: A Global History (Oxford University Press, 2013).