Professor Brendan Simms

Brendan Simms is Professor of the History of International Relations at the University of Cambridge. An expert on European geopolitics, past and present, he is a frequent contributor to print and broadsheet media, has advised governments and parliaments, and spoken at Westminster, in the European parliament and at think-tanks in the United Kingdom, the United States and in many Eurozone countries. He is the author of Donald Trump: The Making of a Worldview (2017), Unfinest Hour: Britain and...See more

Brendan Simms is Professor of the History of International Relations at the University of Cambridge. An expert on European geopolitics, past and present, he is a frequent contributor to print and broadsheet media, has advised governments and parliaments, and spoken at Westminster, in the European parliament and at think-tanks in the United Kingdom, the United States and in many Eurozone countries. He is the author of Donald Trump: The Making of a Worldview (2017), Unfinest Hour: Britain and the Destruction of Bosnia (2001) (shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize), Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy, 1453 to the Present (2013) and Hitler: A Global Biography (2019). See less