He previously worked at the Institute for Defense Analyses outside of Washington, DC. In 2012, he was named a member of the RAND Corporation’s Grand Strategy Advisory Board. He is the author of Latin America’s Cold War (2010) and From Berlin to Baghdad: America’s Search for Purpose in the Post-Cold War World (2008), as well as numerous articles on grand strategy, U.S. foreign policy, Latin American politics and diplomacy, and other international security issues. Dr. Brands holds a Ph.D. in history from Yale University.