Hal Brands (born 1983) is an American political scientist and writer. He is an international relations 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. He graduated from Stanford University with a BA in history and political science and earned his MA, MPhil, and PhD in history from Yale University. His father is historian H. W. Brands.
Bibliography
Books
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)
Critical studies and reviews of Brands' work
American grand strategy in the age of Trump
References
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