Hal Brands Explained

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.

Personal life

Brands' father is historian H. W. Brands.^[2]

Publications

Books

• Book:
• 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

• An “America First” World, Foreign Affairs, May 27, 2024^[3]
• The US and China’s Newfound Friendship Can’t Last, Bloomberg, April 23, 2024^[4]
• The Age of Amorality, Foreign Affairs, February 20, 2024^[5]
• How Primed for War Is China? Foreign Policy, February 4, 2024 (co-authored with Michael Beckley)^[6]
• The Next Global War, Foreign Affairs, January 26, 2024^[7]

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 .

External links

• American Enterprise Institute Profile
• School of Advanced International Studies profile
• Foreign Policy Research Institute profile
• The case for Bush revisionism: Reevaluating the legacy of America’s 43rd President by Hal Brands & Peter Feaver

Notes and References

1. News: Johnson. Adam. Bloomberg’s Armsmaker-Funded Columnist Wants You to Know: Military Spending Is Woke. March 19, 2019.
2. News: Mallozzi . Vincent M. . March 18, 2011 . Emily Chang, Hal Brands: Weddings . The New York Times.
3. News: Brands . Hal . 2024-05-27 . An “America First” World . 2024-05-27 . Foreign Affairs . en-US . 0015-7120.
4. News: April 23, 2024 . The US and China’s Newfound Friendship Can’t Last . April 24, 2024 . Bloomberg.com . en.
5. News: Brands . Hal . February 20, 2024 . The Age of Amorality . February 20, 2024 . Foreign Affairs . en-US . March/April 2024 . 0015-7120.
6. Web site: Brands . Michael Beckley, Hal . February 6, 2024 . How Primed for War Is China? . February 5, 2024 . Foreign Policy . en-US.
7. News: Brands . Hal . January 26, 2024 . The Next Global War . January 28, 2024 . Foreign Affairs . en-US . 0015-7120.