John Bew (historian)

John Bew is Professor in History and Foreign Policy at King's College London[1] and from 2013 to 2014 held the Henry A. Kissinger Chair in Foreign Policy and International Relations at the John W. Kluge Center.[2]

The Honourable

John Bew
Born
Belfast, Northern Ireland
NationalityBritish
Alma materPembroke College, Cambridge (BA, MPhil, PhD)
EmployerKing's College London
Parents

In 2019, Bew joined the Number 10 Policy Unit under Prime Minister Boris Johnson.[3]

Biography

Bew is the son of Paul Bew, Professor of Irish Politics at Queen's University Belfast and his wife Greta Jones, a history professor at the University of Ulster.[4]

Bew completed his education at Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he was a Foundation Scholar and a Thornton Scholar and attained a first class BA in History. He won the Member's Prize for the best MPhil in Historical Studies, before completing his doctoral dissertation "Politics, identity and the shaping of Unionism in the north of Ireland, from the French Revolution to the Home Rule Crisis" in 2006. From 2007 to 2010, Bew was Lecturer in Modern British History, Harris Fellow and Director of Studies at Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he was previously a Junior Research Fellow.

Bew is a contributing writer for the New Statesman and the author of several books, including Realpolitik: A History (2015) and Castlereagh: Enlightenment, War and Tyranny, published by Quercus in the UK in 2011 and by Oxford University Press in the United States the following year.[5]

Bew's original work on Castlereagh formed the basis for a 2013 BBC Northern Ireland documentary that he presented.[6]

Citizen Clem,[7] published in 2016, was named a "book of the year" in The Times, The Sunday Times, Evening Standard, The Spectator and New Statesman and received excellent reviews in The Guardian, The Observer, Literary Review and London Review of Books.[8] It was also awarded the 2017 Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography and the 2017 Orwell Prize. Phillip Collins, for The Times, described it as "The best book in the field of British politics".[9]

In 2015, Bew was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize for Politics and International Relations. He also heads London think-tank Policy Exchange’s Britain in the World Project, launched by the UK Secretary of State for Defence in March 2016, and coordinates its work on foreign policy. His most recent book is Realpolitik: A History published in 2016 by Oxford University Press.[10][11][12]

Bew is an avid fan of Manchester United FC and used to play non-league football for Milton Rovers FC.

British prime minister Boris Johnson selected Bew to lead an "integrated review of security, defence, development and foreign policy.[13]

Bibliography

Monographs
  • Castlereagh: Enlightenment, War and Tyranny. Quercus Publishing. 2011.
  • Realpolitik: A History. Oxford University Press. 2015.
  • Citizen Clem: A Biography of Attlee. riverrun. 2016.

References
  1. "Professor John Bew". King's College London. Retrieved 19 February 2017.
  2. "John Bew". John W. Kluge Center. Library of Congress.
  3. "Bagehot - The Downing Street Policy Unit, Boris Johnson's brain | Britain". The Economist. 22 August 2019. Retrieved 21 January 2021.
  4. Richards, Huw (9 March 2004). "Paul Bew: Belfast's history man". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 19 February 2017.
  5. "Professor John Bew". Archived from the original on 10 January 2018. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
  6. "BBC Two - Groundbreakers, Series 1, The Extraordinary Life of Castlereagh". BBC. 6 October 2013. Retrieved 21 January 2021.
  7. Kampfner, John (4 September 2016). "Citizen Clem by John Bew review – exemplary biography". The Observer. Retrieved 19 February 2017.
  8. John Bew - Citizen Clem - Quercus.
  9. "Citizen Clem". Guardian Bookshop. Retrieved 28 September 2017.
  10. Bew,John. Realpolitik: A History (2016). Oxford University Press.
  11. Kelly, Duncan (12 February 2016). "'Realpolitik: A History', by John Bew". Financial Times. Retrieved 17 April 2023.
  12. Ledger, Robert (16 March 2016). "Book Review: Realpolitik: A History by John Bew". London School of Economics and Political Science. Retrieved 20 February 2017.
  13. Cooper, Charlie (14 January 2021). "The man who knows what 'Global Britain' means". Politico. London. Retrieved 21 January 2021.
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