Hal Brands

Expertise

Topics

• American Defense Policy
• American Foreign Policy
• Domestic Influences On Foreign Policy
• Grand Strategy
• History
• International Relations
• Latin American Security and Diplomacy
• Nuclear Policy and Proliferation
• Strategic and Security Issues
• U.S. Congress and Foreign Policy
• U.S. Presidency and Foreign Policy

Background and Education

Hal Brands is the Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Professor of Global Affairs at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). He is the author, most recently, of_ American Grand Strategy in the Age of Trump_ (2018). He has also written or edited several other books, including_ Making the Unipolar Moment: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Rise of the Post-Cold War Order_ (2016), What Good is Grand Strategy? Power and Purpose in American Statecraft from Harry S. Truman to George W. Bush (2014), Latin America''s Cold War (2010), From Berlin to Baghdad: America''s Search for Purpose in the Post-Cold War World(2008), and_ The Power of the Past: History and Statecraft_ (co-edited with Jeremi Suri, 2015).

From 2015 to 2016, he served as special assistant to the secretary of defense for strategic planning, and he has consulted with a range of government offices and agencies and think tanks. He has also served as lead writer for the Commission on the National Defense Strategy of the United States.