Brooks, Stephen G. 1971–

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Brooks, Stephen G. 1971–

PERSONAL:

Born 1971. Education: University of California at Santa Cruz, B.A. (with honors), 1993; Yale University, Ph.D. (with distinction), 2001.

ADDRESSES:

Office—Department of Government, Dartmouth College, 6108 Silsby Hall, Hanover, NH 03755. E-mail—Stephen.brooks@dartmouth.edu.

CAREER:

Educator. Naval Postgraduate School, Department of National Security Affairs, Monterey, CA, research analyst, 1991-94; Yale University, New Haven, CT, research assistant, 1998; Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, instructor, 2000-01, assistant professor of government, 2001—. University of California Regents fellow, 1992-93; National Science Foundation graduate fellow, 1995-98; Princeton University Woodrow Wilson School visiting predoctoral fellow, 1998-2000; Yale University Marion C. Sheridan fellow, 1999-2000; Harvard University, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs fellow, 2002-03.

MEMBER:

Council on Foreign Relations, American Political Science Association, International Studies Association, Phi Beta Kappa.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Rockefeller fellow, 2001-02 and 2003-04; Helen Dwight Reid Award, American Political Science Association, 2002, for best doctoral dissertation in international relations, law, and politics; junior faculty fellow, 2005; recipient of research grants.

WRITINGS:

Producing Security: Multinational Corporations, Globalization, and the Changing Calculus of Conflict, Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ), 2005.

(With William C. Wohlforth) World out of Balance: International Relations and the Challenge of American Primacy, Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ), 2008.

Contributor to journals, including Foreign Affairs, International Organization, Journal of Conflict Resolution, and International Security.

SIDELIGHTS:

Born in 1971, Stephen G. Brooks earned a bachelor of arts degree with honors in 1993 from the University of California at Santa Cruz. He went on to receive his Ph.D. from Yale University in 2001 with distinction.

Prior to completing his studies, Brooks worked as a research analyst at the Naval Postgraduate School Department of National Security Affairs in Monterey, California, from 1991 to 1994. In 1998 he served as a research assistant at Yale University's Department of Political Science for Frances Rosenbluth. Brooks first began his association with Dartmouth College in 2000, serving as an instructor of government studies for a year. After becoming an assistant professor there, he was a Rockefeller fellow in the 2001-02 and 2003-04 academic years. In 2005 he was named a junior faculty fellow.

Brooks has held a number of fellowships in his career. In his final year of undergraduate study, he was a University of California Regents fellow. He was a National Science Foundation graduate fellow from 1995 to 1998, then a Princeton University Woodrow Wilson School visiting predoctoral fellow from 1998 to 2000. From 1999 to 2000 he additionally served as a Yale University Marion C. Sheridan fellow. Brooks was a Harvard University Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs fellow from 2002 to 2003.

Brooks is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the American Political Science Association, and the International Studies Association. He contributes to a number of academic journals, including Foreign Affairs, International Organization, Journal of Conflict Resolution, and International Security. And he is the 2002 recipient of the American Political Science Association's Helen Dwight Reid Award for best doctoral dissertation in international relations, law, and politics.

Brooks published his first book, Producing Security: Multinational Corporations, Globalization, and the Changing Calculus of Conflict, in 2005. The account systemically examines the casual mechanisms by which multinational corporations influence international security and outlines various ways the production activities of these companies will alter security in certain countries in the future. The book analyzes both the significant benefits and economic consequences of the globalization of production implemented by multinational corporations. Quan Li, writing in Ethics & International Affairs, described Producing Security as a "path-breaking book." Li noted that "three issues, however, may challenge Brooks's causal analysis, suggesting the need for future research." Among these, he noted that "while Brooks focuses on the role of globalized production as a structural constraint that prevents any great power from complete dominance in bargaining …, one may wonder how his argument fits into the bargaining framework, since the quality of security relations eventually boils down to the decision to go to war." Li concluded that, "despite these quibbles, this is an innovative, sound, systematic, and insightful volume for all those who are interested in the implications of economic globalization for interstate war and peace." Tanisha M. Fazal, writing in the Political Science Quarterly, remarked that, "as a careful inquiry into this critical phenomenon," Producing Security "deserves a prominent place on the shelf, and should be read alongside more familiar treatments of the liberal peace as both complement and challenge." Fazal continued by saying that even though the author "has been less successful in providing compelling links between the globalization of production and international security consequences, the ambition and thoughtfulness that characterize his work are to be applauded."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Choice, February, 2006, J.M. Ackleson, review of Producing Security: Multinational Corporations, Globalization, and the Changing Calculus of Conflict, p. 1088.

Ethics & International Affairs, March 1, 2006, Quan Li, review of Producing Security, p. 130.

International History Review, June 1, 2007, Geoffrey Jones, review of Producing Security, p. 458.

Political Science Quarterly, summer, 2006, Tanisha M. Fazal, review of Producing Security.