Stephen Gallup Brooks is a Professor of Government in the Department of Government at
Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College (; ) is a private research university in Hanover, New Hampshire. Established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, it is one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. Although founded to educate Native ...
.
Academic career
Brooks was educated at the
University of California, Santa Cruz
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(B.A.) and
Yale University
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(Ph.D.). He has taught at Dartmouth College since 2001.
Brooks is well known in the
international relations
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community for his contributions to
international political economy and
American grand strategy
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. Along with
William Wohlforth
William Curti Wohlforth (born 1959) 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 Editor-in-chief of ''Security Studies'' f ...
, he has authored a number of articles related to American
foreign policy
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and has advocated for continued American
primacy
Primacy may refer to:
* an office of the Primate (bishop)
* the supremacy of one bishop or archbishop over others, most notably:
** Primacy of Peter, ecclesiological doctrine on the primacy of Peter the Apostle
** Primacy of the Roman Pontiff ...
around the world.
Selected works
*"Power Transitions, then and now: Five new structural barriers that will constrain China’s rise," China International Strategy Review volume 1, 2019.
*"Don't Come Home America: The Case against Retrenchment," with
John Ikenberry
Gilford John Ikenberry (October 5, 1954) is a theorist of international relations and United States foreign policy, and the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University. He is known for his work on lib ...
and
William Wohlforth
William Curti Wohlforth (born 1959) 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 Editor-in-chief of ''Security Studies'' f ...
, International Security, Vol. 27, No. 3, Winter 2012/2013.
*"Reshaping the World Order: How Washington Should Reform International Institutions," with William Wohlforth, Foreign Affairs, Vol. 88, No. 2, March/April 2009.
*"Striking the Balance," with William Wohlforth, International Security, Vol. 30, No. 3, Winter 2005/06.
*"International Relations Theory and the Case Against Unilateralism," with William C. Wohlforth, Perspectives on Politics, Vol. 3, No. 3, September 2005.
*"Hard Times for Soft Balancing." with William C. Wohlforth, International Security, Vol. 30, No. 1, Summer 2005.
*"Producing Security: Multinational Corporations, Globalization, and the Changing Calculus of Conflict, Princeton University Press, 2005.
*"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.
*"A Double-Edged Sword: Globalization and Biosecurity," with Kendall Hoyt, International Security, Vol. 28, No. 3: 123–148, Winter 2003/04.
*"American Primacy in Perspective," with William Wohlforth, Foreign Affairs, Vol. 81, No. 4: 20–33, July/August 2002.
*"From Old Thinking to New Thinking in Qualitative Research," with William Wohlforth, International Security, Vol. 26, No.4: 93-111, Spring 2002.
*"Economic Constraints and the End of the Cold War," with William Wohlforth, in Cold War Endgames, William Wohlforth, editor, Penn State University Press, 2002.
*"Power, Globalization, and the End of the Cold War: Reevaluating a Landmark Case for Ideas," with William C. Wohlforth, International Security, Vol. 53, No. 3: 5-53, Winter 2000–01.
*"The Globalization of Production and the Changing Benefits of Conquest," Journal of Conflict Resolution, Vol. 43, No. 5:646-670, October 1999.
*"Dueling Realisms," International Organization, Vol. 51, No. 3: 445–477, Summer 1997.
References
Living people
Dartmouth College faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
American political scientists
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