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Michael Brenes

Michael Brenes is a non-resident fellow at the Quincy Institute and interim director of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy at Yale University.

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June 18, 2020
Michael Brenes, Tim Keogh
Lessons From the Long Movement to Defund the Military
What “Defund the Police” can learn from the six-decade effort to radically demilitarize U.S. foreign policy
December 18, 2019
Michael Brenes
Pete Buttigieg Is No Foreign Policy Maverick
He’s called for an end to “forever wars,” but the Afghanistan veteran’s security strategy sounds more like the status quo.
May 11, 2018
Peter-Christian Aigner, Michael Brenes
The Long, Tortured History of the Job Guarantee
How liberals, over decades, worked to undermine a proposal that has long enjoyed public support

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