Hal Brands | |
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Born | 1983 (age 40–41) |
Academic background | |
Education | Stanford University (BA) Yale University (MA, MPhil, PhD) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Political science |
Main interests | United States foreign policy |
Hal Brands (born 1983) is an American political scientist 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. [1]
Brands holds a BA in history and political science from Stanford University and a MA,MPhil,and PhD in history from Yale University.
Brands' father is historian H. W. Brands. [7]
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