John Brobst
Associate Professor
Bentley Annex 447
War and Peace Studies
Education
- Ph.D. in History from the University of Texas at Austin
- M.A. in History from the University of Texas at Austin
- B.A. in History and Geography from the University of Kansas
Research
- British Empire since 1783
- Geopolitics and Grand Strategy
- Naval and Intelligence History
Publications
- The Future of the Great Game: Sir Olaf Caroe, India鈥檚 Independence, and the Defense of Asia (University of Akron Press, 2005).
- 鈥溾楴o Scope for Arms Control鈥: Strategy, Geography, and Naval Limitations in the Indian Ocean in the 1970s,鈥 in Strategy and the Sea: Essays in Honour of John B. Hattendorf edited by N. A. M. Rodger, J. Ross Dancy, Benjamin Darnell, and Evan Wilson (Boydell and Brewer, 2016).
- 鈥淕reat Game Redux: The United States, Europe, and Gulf Security in the Late Cold War,鈥 in European-American Relations in the Middle East: From Suez to Iraq edited by Daniel M枚ckli and Victor Mauer (Routledge, 2011).
- Additional articles, essays, and reviews include contributions to Middle Eastern Studies, Geopolitics, Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, Orbis, and The Journal of Military History among other journals and edited compilations.
- Current book project examines great power competition and maritime strategy in the Indian Ocean during the Cold War.
Courses
- HIST 1220: Western Civilization: Modernity since 1500
- HIST 2790: Maritime Empires in World History
- HIST 3330: Oil, the Persian Gulf, and World Power
- HIST 3790: History of Sea Power since 1890
- HIST 3792: Secret Intelligence: Great Game to Five Eyes
- HIST 3865: Churchill鈥檚 Britain, 1870-1970
- HIST 3868: Decline and Fall of the British Empire