Hal Brands

AGS welcomes Hal Brands, Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Professor – Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, for a talk entitled, Trump, Ukraine, and the Future of Global Order. The event will take place on Wednesday, February 26, 2025 from 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM in Sanford 04, Sanford School of Public Policy (201 Science Drive, Durham, NC 27708).

To register for the event, please use the follow link.

There will NOT be a dinner following the talk.

Brands bio:

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 columnist for Bloomberg Opinion.

Brands is the author or editor of several books, including his most recent title, “The Lessons of Tragedy: Statecraft and World Order,” co-authored with Charles Edel. His other books include “American Grand Strategy in the Age of Trump, Making the Unipolar Moment: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Rise of the Post-Cold War Order,” “What Good is Grand Strategy? Power and Purpose in American Statecraft from Harry S. Truman to George W. Bush,” “Latin America’s Cold War,” “From Berlin to Baghdad: America’s Search for Purpose in the Post-Cold War World,” and “The Power of the Past: History and Statecraft” co-edited with Jeremi Suri.

Brands served as Special Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Strategic Planning from 2015 to 2016, and has been a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow. He has also consulted with a range of government offices and agencies in the intelligence and national security communities and served as lead writer for the Commission on the National Defense Strategy for the United States.(SAIS)