Hal Brands
{{Short description|American historian (born 1983)}}
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| name = Hal Brands
| image = File:Hal Brands 140617-N-ZZ999-059 (cropped).jpg
| birth_date = {{birthyearandage|1983}}
| caption = Brands in 2014
| education = Stanford University (BA)
Yale University (MA, MPhil, PhD)
| discipline = Political science, history
| main_interests = United States foreign policy
| website = {{url|https://web.archive.org/web/20230524171911/https://halbrands.org/|Official website}}
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Hal Brands (born 1983) is an American columnist 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.{{cite news|last1=Johnson|first1=Adam|title=Bloomberg's Armsmaker-Funded Columnist Wants You to Know: Military Spending Is Woke|url=https://fair.org/home/bloombergs-armsmaker-funded-columnist-wants-you-to-know-military-spending-is-woke/|date=March 19, 2019}}
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
Publications
=Books=
- From Berlin to Baghdad : America's Search for Purpose in the Post-Cold War World (2008){{Cite news|title=Review of From Berlin to Baghdad|url=https://www.airuniversity.af.edu/SSQ/Book-Reviews/Article/1292091/from-berlin-to-baghdad-americas-search-for-purpose-in-the-postcold-war-world/}}
- 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){{Cite news|title=Roundtable: What Good is Grand Strategy?|url=https://issforum.org/roundtables/7-2-what-good-is-grand-strategy}}
- (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){{Cite news|title=Review Essays: American Grand Strategy in the Age of Trump
|url=https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/nwc-review/vol72/iss1/7/}}
- (With Charles Edel) The Lessons of Tragedy (2019){{Cite news|title=In Statecraft what is Tragedy good for?|url=https://warontherocks.com/2019/06/in-statecraft-what-is-tragedy-good-for/}}
- The Twilight Struggle: What the Cold War Teaches Us about Great-Power Rivalry Today (2022){{Cite news|title=The Last Cold War Was Disastrous — We Shouldn’t Welcome Another|url=https://jacobin.com/2022/08/cold-war-twilight-struggle-review-containment}}{{Cite news|title=The Disastrous Return of Cold War Strategy|url=https://newrepublic.com/article/165653/disastrous-return-cold-war-strategy-hal-brands-book-review}}{{Cite news|title=Review of The Twilight Struggle. What the Cold War Teaches Us about Great-Power Rivalry Today|url=https://www.recensio.net/rezensionen/zeitschriften/sehepunkte/24/05/the-twilight-struggle/?searchterm=Hal%20Brands:}}
- Danger Zone: The Coming Conflict with China (2022) (co-authored with Michael Beckley){{Cite news|title=Review of Danger Zone: The Coming Conflict with China|url=https://pacificaffairs.ubc.ca/book-reviews/danger-zone-the-coming-conflict-with-china-by-hal-brands-michael-beckley/}}
- The New Makers of Modern Strategy. From the Ancient World to the Digital Age (2023){{Cite news|title=Review of The New Makers of Modern Strategy|url=https://www.airuniversity.af.edu/SSQ/Book-Reviews/Article/3730472/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 (2025){{Cite news|title=Hal Brands Distorts Mackinder to Bash Trump|url=https://spectator.org/hal-brands-distorts-mackinder-to-bash-trump/}}
= Articles =
- An “America First” World, Foreign Affairs, May 27, 2024{{Cite news |last=Brands |first=Hal |date=2024-05-27 |title=An "America First" World |url=https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/america-first-world |access-date=2024-05-27 |work=Foreign Affairs |language=en-US |issn=0015-7120}}
- Putting ‘Asia First’ Could Cost America the World, Bloomberg, August 26, 2024{{Cite news |date=August 26, 2024 |title=Putting ‘Asia First’ Could Cost America the World|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/features/2024-08-25/putting-asia-first-could-cost-america-the-world|work=Bloomberg.com |language=en}}
- How Primed for War Is China? Foreign Policy, February 4, 2024 (co-authored with Michael Beckley){{Cite web |last=Brands |first=Michael Beckley, Hal |date=February 6, 2024 |title=How Primed for War Is China? |url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/02/04/china-war-military-taiwan-us-asia-xi-escalation-crisis/ |access-date=February 5, 2024 |website=Foreign Policy |language=en-US}}
References
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External links
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- [https://www.aei.org/scholar/hal-brands/ American Enterprise Institute Profile]
- [https://www.sais-jhu.edu/users/hbrands2 School of Advanced International Studies profile]
- [https://www.fpri.org/contributor/hal-brands/ Foreign Policy Research Institute profile]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20220205194639/https://halbrands.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/12___20___2017_The-case-f.pdf The case for Bush revisionism: Reevaluating the legacy of America’s 43rd President] by Hal Brands & Peter Feaver
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Category:21st-century American male writers
Category:American foreign policy writers
Category:American male non-fiction writers
Category:American political scientists
Category:American international relations scholars
Category:Johns Hopkins University faculty
Category:Stanford University alumni
Category:United States–Asian relations
Category:American Enterprise Institute
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