Hal Brands on "Danger Zone: The Coming Conflict with China". Hal Brands is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he studies US foreign policy and defense strategy. Concurrently, he is the Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Professor of Global Affairs at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). Widely published in many journals from Foreign Affairs to the American Interest, he writes a column for Bloomberg Opinion. He will discuss with us his latest book, Danger Zone: The Coming Conflict with China (2022), co-written with Michael Beckley, as well as questions regarding the war in Ukraine. His previous books include The Lessons of Tragedy: Statecraft and World Order (2019), co-authored with Charles Edel, COVID-19 and World Order (2019), co-edited with Francis Gavin, American Grand Strategy in the Age of Trump (2018), Making the Unipolar Moment: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Rise of the Post-Cold War Order (2016), and What Good is Grand Strategy? Power and Purpose in American Statecraft from Harry S. Truman to George W. Bush (2014). Brands served as Special Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Strategic Planning from 2015 to 2016. He graduated from Yale University with a PhD, MA, and MPhil in history. He also received a BA in history and political science from Stanford University.
Presented by the Program on Constitutional Government on March 3, 2023