Hal Brands

American political scientist (born 1983)
Hal Brands
Brands in 2014
Born1983 (age 40–41)
Academic background
EducationStanford University (BA)
Yale University (MA, MPhil, PhD)
Academic work
DisciplinePolitical science
Main interestsUnited States foreign policy

Hal Brands (born 1983) is an American political scientist and scholar of U.S. foreign policy. He is the Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Professor of Global Affairs at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.[1]

Education

Brands holds a BA in history and political science from Stanford University and a MA, MPhil, and PhD in history from Yale University.

Publications

Books

  • From Berlin to Baghdad : America's Search for Purpose in the Post-Cold War World. 2008.
  • Latin America's Cold War (2010)
  • What Good is Grand Strategy? Power and Purpose in American Statecraft from Harry S. Truman to George W. Bush (2014)
  • (editor, with Jeremi Suri) The Power of the Past: History and Statecraft (2015)
  • Making the Unipolar Moment: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Rise of the Post-Cold War Order (2016)
  • American Grand Strategy in the Age of Trump (2018)
  • (With Charles Edel) The Lessons of Tragedy (2019)
  • The Twilight Struggle: What the Cold War Teaches Us about Great-Power Rivalry Today (2022)
  • Danger Zone: The Coming Conflict with China (2022) (co-authored with Michael Beckley)
  • The New Makers of Modern Strategy. From the Ancient World to the Digital Age (2023)

Articles

  • The US and China’s Newfound Friendship Can’t Last, Bloomberg, April 23, 2024[2]
  • The Age of Amorality, Foreign Affairs, February 20, 2024[3]
  • How Primed for War Is China? Foreign Policy, February 4, 2024 (co-authored with Michael Beckley)[4]
  • The Next Global War, Foreign Affairs, January 26, 2024[5]

Reviews of Brands' work

  • Walling, Karl (Winter 2019). "Closing the 'Lippmann Gap' and the future of American grand strategy". Review Essays. Naval War College Review. 72 (1): 146–150.

Personal life

Brands' father is historian H. W. Brands.[6]

References

  1. ^ Johnson, Adam (March 19, 2019). "Bloomberg's Armsmaker-Funded Columnist Wants You to Know: Military Spending Is Woke".
  2. ^ "The US and China's Newfound Friendship Can't Last". Bloomberg.com. 2024-04-23. Retrieved 2024-04-24.
  3. ^ Brands, Hal (2024-02-20). "The Age of Amorality". Foreign Affairs. No. March/April 2024. ISSN 0015-7120. Retrieved 2024-02-20.
  4. ^ Brands, Michael Beckley, Hal (2024-02-06). "How Primed for War Is China?". Foreign Policy. Retrieved 2024-02-05.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  5. ^ Brands, Hal (2024-01-26). "The Next Global War". Foreign Affairs. ISSN 0015-7120. Retrieved 2024-01-28.
  6. ^ Mallozzi, Vincent M. (March 18, 2011). "Emily Chang, Hal Brands: Weddings". The New York Times.

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  • The case for Bush revisionism: Reevaluating the legacy of America’s 43rd President by Hal Brands & Peter Feaver
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