Stephen G. Brooks

Stephen G. Brooks is a Professor of Government at Dartmouth, and has previously held fellowships at Harvard and Princeton.  He is the author of five books: Producing Security: Multinational Corporations, Globalization, and the Changing Calculus of Conflict (Princeton, 2005); World out of Balance: International Relations and the Challenge of American Primacy (Princeton, 2008), with William Wohlforth; America Abroad: The United States’ Global Role in the 21st Century (Oxford, 2016), with William Wohlforth; Command of Commerce: America’s Enduring Economic Power Advantage Over China (Oxford, 2025), with Ben Vagle; and Political Economy of Security (Princeton, 2026).  He has published numerous articles in scholarly journals, including eight articles in International Security.  He has also published seven articles on America’s role in the world in Foreign Affairs. He received his PhD in Political Science with Distinction from Yale University, where his dissertation received the American Political Science Association’s Helen Dwight Reid Award.