What Good Is Grand Strategy?

By Hal Brands

Grand strategy is one of the most widely used and abused concepts in the foreign policy lexicon. In this important book, Hal Brands explains why grand strategy is a concept that is so alluring—and...

American Grand Strategy In The Age Of Trump

By Hal Brands, Brookings Institution

Looking beyond the headlines to address the enduring grand strategic questions facing the United States todayAmerican foreign policy is in a state of upheaval. The rise of Donald Trump and his "Ame...

From Berlin To Baghdad: America'S Search For Purpose In The Post-Cold War World

By Hal Brands

Danger Zone

By Mike Beckley, Hal Brands, Michael Beckley, Michael Beckley, Hal Brands, Mike Beckley

"A provocative and urgent analysis of the U.S.-China rivalry. It has become conventional wisdom that America and China are running a "superpower marathon" that may last a century. Yet Hal Brands an...

The Limits Of Offshore Balancing

By U.S. Army War College, Hal Brands, Strategic Studies Institute

Dealing With Political Ferment In Latin America: The Populist Revival, The Emergence Of The Center, And Implication For U.S. Policy

By Unknown, Hal Brands, Brands, Hal, 1983-

The Author Argues That References To A Uniform Left Turn In The Region Are Misleading, And That Latin America Is Actually Witnessing A Dynamic Competition Between Two Very Different Forms Of Govern...

Crime, Violence, And The Crisis In Guatemala: A Case Study In The Erosion Of The State

By Hal Brands

Guatemala Is Currently Experiencing A Full-blown Crisis Of The Democratic State. An Unholy Trinity Of Criminal Elements: International Drug Traffickers, Domestically Based Organized Crime Syndicate...

Dilemmas Of Brazilian Grand Strategy

By Hal Brands

The Limits Of Offshore Balancing

By Hal Brands, Strategic Studies Institute

The Twilight Struggle: What The Cold War Teaches Us About Great-Power Rivalry Today

By Hal Brands

**A leading historian’s guide to great-power competition, as told through America’s successes and failures in the Cold War** **“If you want to know how America can win today's rivalries with Russia...