Hal Brands

Hal Brands is an American columnist and scholar of US foreign policy. He is the Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Professor of Global Affairs at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, as well as a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.

Education

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

Brands' father is the historian H. W. Brands.

From Berlin to Baghdad : America's Search for Purpose in the Post-Cold War World
Latin America's Cold War
What Good is Grand Strategy? Power and Purpose in American Statecraft from Harry S. Truman to George W. Bush
The Power of the Past: History and Statecraft
Making the Unipolar Moment: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Rise of the Post-Cold War Order
American Grand Strategy in the Age of Trump
The Lessons of Tragedy
The Twilight Struggle: What the Cold War Teaches Us about Great-Power Rivalry Today
Danger Zone: The Coming Conflict with China
The New Makers of Modern Strategy. From the Ancient World to the Digital Age
''The Eurasian Century: Hot Wars, Cold Wars, and the Making of the Modern World''
Articles
"An 'America First' World", Foreign Affairs, May 27, 2024
"Putting ‘Asia First’ Could Cost America the World", Bloomberg, August 26, 2024
"How Primed for War Is China?", Foreign Policy, February 4, 2024
by Hal Brands, Peter Feaver, William Inboden & Paul D. Miller
by Hal Brands & Peter Feaver