John Brobst

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’s Independence, and the Defense of Asia (University of Akron Press, 2005).
• “‘No Scope for Arms Control’: Strategy, Geography, and Naval Limitations in the Indian Ocean in the 1970s,” 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).
• “Great Game Redux: The United States, Europe, and Gulf Security in the Late Cold War,” in European-American Relations in the Middle East:  From Suez to Iraq edited by Daniel Möckli 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’s Britain, 1870-1970
• HIST 3868: Decline and Fall of the British Empire