Stephen G. Brooks

Stephen Gallup Brooks (born 1971) is an American political scientist. He is currently professor of government in the Department of Government at Dartmouth College.^[1]

Academic career

Brooks holds a BA from the University of California, Santa Cruz and a PhD from Yale University. He has taught at Dartmouth College since 2001.^[2] Brooks is well known in the international relations field for his contributions to international political economy and American grand strategy. Along with William Wohlforth, he has authored a number of articles related to American foreign policy and has advocated for continued American primacy around the world.

Selected works

Books

• America Abroad: The United States’ Global Role in the 21 st Century (Oxford, 2016) (with William Wohlforth)
• 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, Vol. 43, No. 5:646-670, October 1999.
• "Dueling Realisms," International Organization, Vol. 51, No. 3: 445–477, Summer 1997.