Greg KENNEDY is Professor of Strategic Foreign Policy at King's College London and joined the Defence Studies Department in June 2000. He has taught at the Royal Military College of Canada, in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, for both the History and War Studies Departments. He is an adjunct Professor of that university. He has published internationally on strategic foreign policy issues, maritime defence, disarmament, diplomacy and intelligence and in particular on economic warfare in the First and Second World Wars. He is the Director of the Economic Conflict and Competition Research Group which is an academic centre of excellence for developing sustained, inter-disciplinary research on the study of Economic Warfare. Its key mission is to act as a node for linking a global network of scholars, practitioners, companies, and faculties to set an international standard for excellence in the analysis and thinking of this critical strategic concept. The ECCRG also acts as a portal through which other actors, scholars, governments, businesses, can access that global network.