American Political Scientist
Hal Brands analyzes a key challenge related to artificial intelligence. For years, experts have predicted that artificial intelligence would revolutionize world politics. History may record 2026 as the moment the…
Hal Brands and Michael Beckley write in Foreign Affairs about important geopolitical shifts. At first glance, today’s strategic map seems familiar. A bloc of land-based powers, clustered around the center…
Hal Brands explores the prospects for maintaining America’s artificial intelligence dominance. “The future of American warfare is here, and it’s spelled AI,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declared in early December.…
Hal Brands explains why top Russian and Chinese leaders do not fear American President Donald Trump. President Donald Trump relishes power — its relentless accumulation at home; its bold, assertive…
Hal Brands focuses on the foreign policy impact of current Trump administration policies. In his first term as president, Donald Trump made the new cold war consensus on China —…
Hal Brands writes in Foreign Affairs about the impact of President Donald Trump’s view of geopolitics. Trump isn’t the ideal defender of an imperiled American order. Indeed, one suspects he…
Hal Brands writes in Foreign Affairs about a key challenge for American foreign policy. U.S. President Joe Biden took office pledging to wage a fateful contest between democracy and autocracy. After…
Hal Brands and Michael Beckley offer a warning about the prospects of war with communist China. How likely is China to start a war? This may be the single-most important…
Hal Brands of the American Enterprise Institute warns readers about a sad fact in today’s world. The Ukraine war is the first great-power nuclear crisis of the 21st century —…
Michael Beckley and Hal Brands place China’s negative actions in historical context. To grasp the Chinese challenge, we must grasp its ideological dimensions. If Woodrow Wilson and his followers wanted…
Hal Brands of the American Enterprise Institute explains one of the problems linked to the Biden administration’s pursuit of more green energy. Think a green transition will free America from…