Paret is Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities, Emeritus, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and Raymond A. Spruance Professor of International History, Emeritus, Stanford University.

Professor Paret has been awarded 3 honorary degrees;  Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences;  American Philosophical Society;  Honorary Fellow, London School of Economics;  Honorary Member, Clausewitz Gesellschaft.  Thomas Jefferson Medal of the American Philosophical Society;  Samuel Eliot Morison Prize of the Society for Military History; Officer's Cross, Order of Merit,  German Federal Republic.

Peter Paret received his BA from the University of California, Berkeley in 1949, was a Journalist and editor over 1950-56 and received his PhD from the University of London in 1960. He has published extensively. As of June 2004 his most recent book was:  An Artist against the Third Reich: Ernst Barlach, 1933-1938, Cambridge UP, 2003.; and his most recent article: "From Ideal to Ambiguity: Johannes von Müller, Clausewitz, and the People in Arms,"  Journal of the History of Ideas (2004,1).

Amongst his many works Peter has written extensively on Clausewitz (Clausewitz and the State, OUP-Princeton UP, etc.) and on German cultural history, including, most recently, a collection of articles in the field - German Encounters with Modernism, 1840-1945, Cambridge UP, 2001.

See also http://www.hs.ias.edu/paretcv.htm and http://www.hs.ias.edu/paret.htm