John Brobst
Associate Professor
Bentley Annex 447
War and Peace Studies
Education
- Ph.D. in History, University of Texas at Austin
- M.A. in History, University of Texas at Austin
- B.A. in History and Geography, University of Kansas
Research
- British Empire from 1783
- Geopolitics and Grand Strategy
- Modern Naval History
Publications
- 鈥淢ackinder鈥檚 Game, Mahan鈥檚 Rules: Classical Geopolitics and the U. S. Navy in the Cold War,鈥 in War and Geopolitics edited by Jeremy Black (Societ脿 Italiana di Storia Militare, 2025), pp. 459-483.
- 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), pp. 179-189.
- 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), pp. 275-296.
- 鈥溾楤y the Finger and the Thumb鈥: India鈥檚 Partition and the Great Game in Postwar Asia,鈥 Orbis, vol. 52, n. 3, 2008, pp. 509-522.
- The Future of the Great Game: Sir Olaf Caroe, India鈥檚 Independence, and the Defense of Asia (University of Akron Press, 2005).
- 鈥溾業carian Geography鈥: Air Power, Closed Space, and British Decolonisation,鈥 Geopolitics, vol. 9, n. 2, 2004, pp. 426-439.
- 鈥淪ir Frederic Goldsmid and the Containment of Persia, 1863-1873,鈥 Middle Eastern Studies, vol. 33, n. 2, 1997, pp. 197-215.
- Numerous shorter articles, essays, and reviews, including contributions to Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, Defense and Security Analysis, H-Diplo, 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 from 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 3866: History and Strategy of Afghan Wars
- HIST 3867: The Rise of the British Empire
- HIST 3868: The Decline and Fall of the British Empire