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Brian Klaas
Born (1986-06-29) June 29, 1986 (age 38)
Golden Valley, Minnesota, U.S.
Occupation
  • Academic
  • author
  • columnist
Alma mater
SubjectsDemocratization, Chaos theory, American Politics
Website
brianpklaas.com

Brian Paul Klaas (born 29 June 1986) is an American political scientist, a contributing writer at The Atlantic,[1] and an associate professor in global politics at University College London.

He co-authored How to Rig an Election (2018) and authored Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us (2021) and Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters (2024). Klaas was recently named one of the 25 top thinkers globally for 2025 by Prospect magazine.[2]

Early life and education

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Klaas was born in Golden Valley, Minnesota.[3][dead link‍] He earned a BA (Summa cum laude) from Carleton College (2008), where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He earned an MPhil degree in political science[when?] from St. Antony's College, University of Oxford.[citation needed] He subsequently completed[when?] his DPhil in political science at New College, University of Oxford.[citation needed]

Career

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After completing his DPhil, he was a Fellow in Comparative Politics at the London School of Economics. Klaas has been an associate professor in global politics at University College London since.[when?] In 2010, he was policy director and deputy campaign manager for Mark Dayton's successful bid for governor of Minnesota in 2010.[3]

Klaas has been a frequent commentator in the media on US foreign policy and democratization. His articles have been published in The New York Times in 2015,[4] The Financial Times,[5] Foreign Affairs in 2016,[6] Foreign Policy,[7] the Los Angeles Times in 2017,[8] and The Guardian in 2016,[9] He appears regularly on MSNBC,[10] CNBC,[11] BBC,[12] CNN[13] and other outlets.

Publications

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  • The Despot's Accomplice: How the West is Aiding and Abetting the Decline of Democracy, Hurst, 2016, ISBN 978-1849046879[14]
  • The Despot's Apprentice: Donald Trump's Attack on Democracy, Skyhorse Publishing, 2017, ISBN 978-1510735859[15][16]
  • How to Rig an Election, Yale University Press, 2018, ISBN 978-0300204438[17]
  • Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us, Scribner, 2021, ISBN 978-1982154097
  • Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters, Scribner, 2024, ISBN 9781668006528

References

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  1. ^ Klaas, Brian. "Brian Klaas". The Atlantic. Retrieved August 11, 2022.
  2. ^ Team, Prospect (December 4, 2024). "25 thinkers for an uncertain world". Prospect. Retrieved January 9, 2025.
  3. ^ a b Donovan, Joe. "How Brian Klaas went from Mark Dayton's driver to one of Trump's harshest critics | City Pages". City Pages. Retrieved December 4, 2017.
  4. ^ Klaas, Brian; Pack, Jason (June 14, 2015). "Opinion | Talking With the Wrong Libyans". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved December 4, 2017.
  5. ^ "Playing politics with migrants – on both sides of the Mediterranean". Financial Times.
  6. ^ Klaas, Brian (July 17, 2016). "Why Coups Fail". Foreign Affairs. Retrieved December 4, 2017.
  7. ^ "How Fake Democracies Damage Real Ones". Foreign Policy. Retrieved December 4, 2017.
  8. ^ Dirsus, Brian Klaas and Marcel. "The isolationist catastrophe of 'Brexit'". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved December 4, 2017.
  9. ^ Klaas, Brian (November 18, 2016). "Dictators around the world will delight in Trump's victory". The Guardian. Retrieved December 4, 2017.
  10. ^ MSNBC (January 15, 2018). "MSNBC". Foreign Affairs: America and the World. ISSN 0015-7120. Retrieved January 15, 2018.
  11. ^ CNBC (January 15, 2018). "Foreign Affairs: America and the World". CNBC. ISSN 0015-7120. Retrieved January 15, 2018.
  12. ^ BBC (January 15, 2018). "BBC". Foreign Affairs: America and the World. ISSN 0015-7120. Retrieved January 15, 2018.
  13. ^ "Trump's Travel Ban". Foreign Affairs: America and the World. CNN. January 9, 2018. ISSN 0015-7120. Retrieved January 15, 2018.
  14. ^ Klaas, Brian (March 15, 2017). The Despot's Accomplice: How the West Is Aiding and Abetting the Decline of Democracy. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780190668013.
  15. ^ Klaas, Brian (November 14, 2017). The Despot's Apprentice: Donald Trump's Attack on Democracy. Skyhorse Publishing Inc. ISBN 9781510735934.
  16. ^ Capp, Fiona (December 14, 2017). "The Despot's Apprentice review: Brian Klaas on Trump and the danger to democracy" – via The Sydney Morning Herald.
  17. ^ Klaas, Brian (April 24, 2018). How To Rig An Election. Yale University Press. ISBN 9781510735934.

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