Stephen Gallup Brooks (born 1971) is an American

political scientist Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and Power (social and political), power, and the analysis of political activities, political philosophy, political thought, polit ...

. He is currently professor of government in the Department of Government at

Dartmouth College Dartmouth College ( ) is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. Established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, Dartmouth is one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the America ...

Academic career

Brooks holds a BA from the

University of California, Santa Cruz The University of California, Santa Cruz (UC Santa Cruz or UCSC) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Santa Cruz, California, United States. It is one of the ten campuses in the University of C ...

and a PhD from

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Stat ...

. He has taught at Dartmouth College since 2001. Brooks is well known in the

international relations International relations (IR, and also referred to as international studies, international politics, or international affairs) is an academic discipline. In a broader sense, the study of IR, in addition to multilateral relations, concerns al ...

field for his contributions to

international political economy International political economy (IPE) is the study of how politics shapes the global economy and how the global economy shapes politics. A key focus in IPE is on the power of different actors such as nation states, international organizations and ...

and

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grand strategy. Along with

William Wohlforth William Curti Wohlforth (born 1959) is an American political scientist. He is the Daniel Webster Professor of Government in the Dartmouth College Department of Government, of which he was chair for three academic years (2006-2009). Wohlforth was E ...

, he has authored a number of articles related to American

foreign policy Foreign policy, also known as external policy, is the set of strategies and actions a State (polity), state employs in its interactions with other states, unions, and international entities. It encompasses a wide range of objectives, includ ...

and has advocated for continued American

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around the world.

Selected works

Books

*
America Abroad: The United States’ Global Role in the 21 st Century
' (Oxford, 2016) (with

) *
World Out of Balance: International Relations and the Challenge of American Primacy
' (Princeton University Press, 2008) (with William Wohlforth) *
Producing Security: Multinational Corporations, Globalization, and the Changing Calculus of Conflict
', Princeton University Press, 2005.

Articles

*
The Long Unipolar Moment? Joshua Shifrinson, Anne-Marie Slaughter, and others debate American dominance.
' Foreign Affairs, (November/December 2023) *
“The Myth of Multipolarity: American Power’s Staying Power,”

Foreign Affairs, Vol. 102, No. 3 (May/June 2023)
with William Wohlforth * ''“Europe Cannot Defend Itself: The Challenge of Pooling Military Power,”'' Survival, Vol. 63, No.1 (2021), with Hugo Meijer, pp. 33-40. *''"Power Transitions, then and now: Five new structural barriers that will constrain China’s rise,"'' ''China International Strategy Review'', Vol. 1, 2019. *
Roundtable on "America Abroad: The United States’ Global Role in the 21st Century"
' H-Diplo, (2018) * ''“Assessing the Scope of U.S. Security Commitments in Asia,”'' Asia Policy, Vol. 13, No. 3 (July 2018), pp. 144-149. * ''“Distinguishing a Minimalist Role for Grand Theorizing,”'' International Relations, Vol. 31, No.1 (March 2017), pp. 85-90. * ''“Can We Identify a Benevolent Hegemon?”'' Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Vol. 25, No. 1 (2012), pp. 27-38. *
“US Decline or Primacy?”
' with William Wohlforth. In US Foreign Policy, Michael Cox and Doug Stokes, editors (Oxford University Press, 2012) *
“Assessing the Balance,”
' Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Vol. 42, No. 2, pp. 201-219 (July 2011), with William Wohlforth *
Roundtable on World Out of Balance: International Relations and the Challenge of American Primacy,"
' H-Diplo, (2009) * ''“Reflections on Producing Security,”'' Security Studies, Vol. 16, No. 4 (Winter 2008) * ''“Clarifying the End of Cold War Debate,”'' Cold War History, Vol. 7, No. 3 (August 2007), pp.447-454, with William Wohlforth *''"Economic Constraints and the Turn Toward Superpower Cooperation in the 1980s,"'' with William C. Wohlforth, in ''From Conflict Escalation to Conflict Transformation: The Cold War in the 1980s'', Olav Njnillstad, ed., Frank Cass, 2004. *''"Economic Constraints and the End of the Cold War,"'' with William Wohlforth, in ''Cold War Endgames'', William Wohlforth, editor, Penn State University Press, 2002. *''"The Globalization of Production and the Changing Benefits of Conquest,"'' ''

Journal of Conflict Resolution The ''Journal of Conflict Resolution'' is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal covering research on international conflict and conflict resolution. It was established in 1957 and is published by SAGE Publications. The editor-in-chief is Paul ...

'', Vol. 43, No. 5:646-670, October 1999. *''"Dueling Realisms,"'' ''

International Organization An international organization, also known as an intergovernmental organization or an international institution, is an organization that is established by a treaty or other type of instrument governed by international law and possesses its own le ...

'', Vol. 51, No. 3: 445–477, Summer 1997.

References

External links

Professional website, curriculum vita and list of works

Articles at Quarterly Journal: International Security

Articles at JSTOR
Living people Dartmouth College faculty American political scientists 1971 births {{US-polisci-bio-stub