Area of Expertise: U.S. foreign policy, Latin America with emphasis on the Caribbean and Cuba, U.S.-Cuban relations, Congress and foreign policy, presidential decision making on foreign policy  

Additional Information: Philip Brenner is the director of the graduate program in U.S. foreign policy, and has served as director of the university's interdisciplinary council on Latin America. A specialist in U.S. foreign policy toward Latin America, he has been engaged in research and writing about Cuba and U.S.-Cuban relations since 1974. His most recent book is A Contemporary Cuba Reader: Reinventing the Revolution (2007). His 2002 study,Sad and Luminous Days: Cuba’s Struggle with the Superpowers after the Missile Crisis (Rowman and Littlefield), with James G. Blight, explores the Cuban missile crisis from the Cuban perspective and exposes a secret speech Castro delivered to the Cuban leadership in 1968. Brenner is also the author of From Confrontation to Negotiation: U.S. Relations with Cuba (1988). Since 1985, Brenner has served on the advisory board of the National Security Archive and has been involved in the archive's efforts to declassify and disseminate documents about U.S. foreign policy, including those related to the Cuban missile crisis. Brenner has been interviewed by the major networks and international media and has been a guest on numerous talk shows to discuss contemporary patterns of U.S. foreign policy.

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