Dr. Seyom Brown

Adjunct Senior Fellow

Expertise: U.S. Grand Strategy, U.S. Nuclear Policy, Arms Control

Dr. Brown has held senior research and policy analysis positions at the RAND Corporation, the Brookings Institution, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs in the John F.Kennedy School of Government, and has served as a Special Assistant in the Office of International Security Affairs in the Department of Defense and a Special Assistant to the Director of Policy Planning in the Department of State.

He has taught at numerous universities, including: Harvard, Brandeis, SAIS, Columbia, Chicago, UCLA, and SMU.

He is the author of twelve books on U.S. foreign policy and international relations, including Higher Realism: A New Foreign Policy for the United States; The Illusion of Control: Force and Foreign Policy in the 21^st Century; The Faces of Power: Constancy and Change in United States Foreign Policy from Truman to Obama; Human Rights in World Politics; The Causes and Prevention of War;  and New Forces, Old Forces, and the Future of World Politics.