Ted R. Bromund

Ted R. Bromund

Senior Research Fellow, Anglo-American Relations, Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom

Ted Bromund studied Anglo-American relations, U.S. relations with Europe and the EU, and the U.S.’s leadership role in the world.

This expert is no longer a staff member at The Heritage Foundation.

Ted R. Bromund studied and wrote on Anglo-American relations, U.S. and British relations with Europe and the European Union, America’s leadership role in the world, and international organizations and treaties, with a particular focus on Interpol, as Senior Research Fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom.

Bromund, who joined Heritage in 2008, previously served nine years as Associate Director of International Security Studies at Yale University, a center dedicated to the study and teaching of diplomatic history and grand strategy.

He received his doctorate in history in 1999 from Yale. He also holds two master’s degrees in history from Yale and a bachelor of arts degree from Iowa’s Grinnell College. His doctoral thesis on Britain’s first application to the European Economic Community won the Samuel H. Beer Dissertation Prize from the American Political Science Association’s British Politics Group.

At Yale, he was a lecturer in History beginning in 1999, and in International Affairs for the master of arts program beginning in 2004. In Washington, D.C., he has served as an adjunct professor of Strategic Studies in the Strategic Studies Program at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.

Bromund writes regularly for a wide range of publications, including scholarly journals. He was formerly a columnist for Newsday and Forbes, and, in Britain, the Yorkshire Post. He is a regular contributor to The Daily Signal, Heritage’s multimedia news organization.

Bromund has testified before Congress, been cited in evidence by the UK House of Commons, advised the U.S. National Security Council, spoken before the American Bar Association and the Federal Bar Association, and served as an expert witness in U.S., British, and Polish legal proceedings. He has been interviewed or cited by BBC News, CBS News, CNN, the Daily Caller, Fox News, Fox Business, NPR, Radio Free Europe, Reuters, The Voice of America, The AtlanticBloomberg, The Christian Science Monitor, The Guardian, Time, The Financial Times, the Los Angeles Times, and The Wall Street Journal, among many others.

In 2013, Bromund was recognized by the Second Amendment Foundation as its Scholar of the Year for his analysis of the Arms Trade Treaty. In 2016, he received Heritage’s Joseph Shattan Award in recognition of the quality of his writing. In 2023, Sky News (UK) lauded him as “the go-to guy on anything relating to Interpol. . . . When we first started asking questions about Interpol abuse, whenever our sources were struggling with an answer, many of them would say ‘Have you spoken to Ted?’”

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How the United States Should Respond to Palestinian Membership in Interpol Ted R. Bromund, PhD

May 1, 2018 Over an hour read

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Britain’s Military Should Be Growing. It’s Not. Ted R. Bromund, PhD

Apr 30, 2018 4 min read

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Why Syria Felt Emboldened to Use Deadly Gas Ted R. Bromund, PhD

Apr 17, 2018 2 min read

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We Are Only As Powerless As We Want to Be Ted R. Bromund, PhD

Mar 21, 2018 2 min read

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The Problem With Brexit Isn’t Britain Ted R. Bromund, PhD

Mar 7, 2018 6 min read

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Obama’s Ugly Legacy in the Mideast Ted R. Bromund, PhD

Mar 5, 2018 2 min read

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How Brexit Opens Up a Path for a U.S.-U.K. Free Trade Area Ted R. Bromund, PhD

Mar 5, 2018 3 min read

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Why the U.S. Must Unsign the Arms Trade Treaty in 2018 Ted R. Bromund, PhD

Feb 22, 2018 16 min read

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How U.S. Can Stop Palestinian Authority From Abusing Interpol Ted R. Bromund, PhD

Feb 21, 2018 4 min read

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The Indecency of the Olympic Games Ted R. Bromund, PhD

Feb 20, 2018 2 min read