Hal Brands, Assistant Professor of Public Policy and History  

Office Location: Rubenstein 130
Office Phone: (919) 613-4393
Email Address: henry.brands@duke.edu

Areas of Expertise

  • History
  • International, U.S. Foreign Policy
  • National Security and Defense, Diplomacy

Education:
PhD, Yale University, 2009
M.Phil, Yale University, 2008
MA, Yale University, 2006
BA, Stanford University, 2005

Office Hours:
On leave Spring 2012

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

  1. Hal Brands. Latin America's Cold War. Harvard University Press, 2010. [catalog.php]
  2. Hal Brands. From Berlin to Baghdad: America's Search for Purpose in the Post-Cold War World. University Press of Kentucky, 2008.
  3. Hal Brands and David Palkki. ""Conspiring Bastards: Saddam Hussein's Strategic View of the United States"." Diplomatic History (June, 2012).
  4. Hal Brands, David Palkki. ""Saddam, Israel, and the Bomb: Nuclear Alarmism Justified?"." International Security 36.1 (Summer, 2011).
  5. Hal Brands. "Third-World Politics in an Age of Global Upheaval: The Latin American Challenge to U.S. and Western Hegemony, 1965-1975." Diplomatic History 32.1 (January, 2008). [pdf]
  6. Hal Brands. "Non-Proliferation and the Dynamics of the Middle Cold War: The Superpowers, the MLF, and the NPT." Cold War History 7 (August, 2007).
  7. Hal Brands. "Progress Unseen: U.S. Arms Control Policy and the Origins of Détente, 1963–1968." Diplomatic History 30 (April, 2006). [pdf]
  8. Hal Brands. Dilemmas of Brazilian Grand Strategy. Strategic Studies Institute, Army War College, September, 2010. [display.cfm]
  9. Hal Brands. Crime, Violence, and the Crisis in Guatemala: A Case Study in the Erosion of the State. Strategic Studies Institute, Army War College, May, 2010. [display.cfm]
  10. Hal Brands. Mexico's Narco-Insurgency and U.S. Counter-Drug Policy. Strategic Studies Institute, Army War College, May, 2009.

Curriculum Vitae

Bio/Profile
Hal Brands joined the faculty at Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy in July 2010. He is a historian whose research focuses on U.S. foreign policy, Cold War history, Latin American security and diplomacy, and strategic and military issues. He worked at the nonprofit Institute for Defense Analyses from 2008-2010 and is an affiliate of the Duke Program in American Grand Strategy.

Brands is the author of From Berlin to Baghdad: America's Search for Purpose in the Post-Cold War World (University Press of Kentucky, 2008). His second book,Latin America's Cold War (Harvard University Press, September 2010), was adapted from his dissertation, which won the John Addison Porter Prize for Best Dissertation in the Humanities and the Mary and Arthur Wright Prize for Best Dissertation in Non-U.S. or European History.

Brands earned a PhD, MA and MPhil. in History from Yale University. He received his BA from Stanford University.

Hal Brands