Hal Brands

About

Hal Brands is the Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Professor of Global Affairs at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). He is also a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and a columnist for Bloomberg Opinion. His work includes authoring and editing several books such as The Twilight Struggle: What the Cold War Teaches Us About Great-Power Rivalry, Danger Zone: The Coming Conflict with China (co-authored with Michael Beckley), and The New Makers of Modern Strategy: From the Ancient World to the Digital Age. Brands has served as Special Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Strategic Planning and was the lead writer for the Commission on the National Defense Strategy for the United States. He is a member of the State Department's Foreign Affairs Policy Board and consults with various government offices and agencies within the intelligence and national security communities. His writings have been published in outlets including Foreign Affairs, The Atlantic, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post. He has lectured widely on foreign policy and global affairs to audiences in government, academia, and the private sector.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Law
• Computer Science
• Computer Security
• Sociology
• Geography
• Medicine
• Business
• History
• Criminology

Selected publications

• COVID-19 and World Order

  Johns Hopkins University Press eBooks · 2020 · 25 citations

  1st authorCorresponding

  The contributors to this book offer an array of bracing answers that will certainly be of great interest and use to policy makers who are implementing new mea sures to confront this crisis, to the students who are returning to classrooms or attending seminars virtually, and to faculty who are teaching the next generation about and in the midst of COVID-19. This global pandemic is, in so many ways, unpre ce dented in our lifetimes, and it will require unpre ce dented solutions that will profoundl…

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• China's Threat to Global Democracy

  Journal of democracy · 2023-01-01 · 14 citations

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  A powerful but anxious Chinese regime is now engaged in an aggressive effort to make the world safe for autocracy and to corrupt and destabilize democracies. Democracy promotion may be out of style in U.S. foreign policy, but democracy prevention is very much at the heart of Chinese strategy today.

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• COVID-19 and World Order: The Future of Conflict, Competition, and Cooperation

  2020-01-01 · 13 citations

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  Foreword, by Ronald J. Daniels Acknowledgments [Introduction] COVID-19 and World Order Hal Brands and Francis J. Gavin Part I. Applied History and Future Scenarios Chapter 1. Ends of Epidemics Jeremy A. Greene and Dora Vargha Chapter 2. The World after COVID: A Perspective from History Margaret MacMillan Chapter 3. Future Scenarios: We are all failed states, now Philip Bobbitt Part II. Global Public Health and Mitigation Strategies Chapter 4. Make Pandemics Lose Their Power Tom Inglesby Chapter…

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• The Twilight Struggle

  Yale University Press eBooks · 2022-01-25 · 10 citations

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• The Return of Geopolitics: Latin America and the Caribbean in an Era of Strategic Competition

  Florida International University Digital Commons (Florida International University) · 2021-01-01 · 10 citations

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  With the advent of the Biden administration, it is clear the idea of focusing U.S. foreign policy on strategic competition enjoys widespread bipartisan support. U.S. statecraft is increasingly directed at the threats posed by powerful state rivals—especially China—as opposed to Salafi-Jihadist extremists and other non-state actors. Yet geopolitical rivalry is not simply something that happens over there in the Indo-Pacific, Europe, and the Middle East. It also happens over here, within the Weste…

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Frequent coauthors

• Peter D. Feaver

  Duke University

  9 shared

• Charles Edel

  7 shared

• David D. Palkki

  3 shared

• Ryan C. Berg

  3 shared

• Eric S. Edelman

  3 shared

• Zack Cooper

  National Bureau of Economic Research

  2 shared

• Harold James

  2 shared

• Tevfik Turan

  2 shared

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