Hal Brands (born 1983) is an American historian 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.

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