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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Even Friends of the Arms Trade Treaty Admit It’s Not Working Ted R. Bromund, PhD

Aug 30, 2019 3 min read

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Transatlantic Policy Impacts of the U.S.–EU Trade Conflict Ted R. Bromund, PhD

Aug 23, 2019 23 min read

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How the U.S. Should Follow Up Its Unsigning of the Arms Trade Treaty Ted R. Bromund, PhD

Aug 20, 2019 7 min read

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Why Europe Should Look Inward Ted R. Bromund, PhD

Aug 20, 2019 2 min read

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Trump’s Rejection of the Arms Trade Treaty Is Based on Reality Ted R. Bromund, PhD

Jul 24, 2019 3 min read

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U.S. Fighting an Old Trade Tussle Ted R. Bromund, PhD

Jul 16, 2019 2 min read

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China Confesses to Abusing Interpol System in the United States Ted R. Bromund, PhD

Jun 27, 2019 5 min read