Andrew L. Johns

Andrew L. Johns is Professor of History at Brigham Young University and the David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies. His research focuses on the history of U.S. foreign relations, with a particular interest in the presidency, the constitutional "invitation to struggle," and the nexus of domestic politics and foreign policy. He is the author or editor of seven books: The Eisenhower Administration, the Third World, and the Globalization of the Cold War (2006); Vietnam’s Second Front: Domestic Politics, the Republican Party, and the War (2010); Diplomatic Games: Sport, Statecraft, and International Relations since 1945 (2014); A Companion to Ronald Reagan (2015); The Cold War at Home and Abroad: Domestic Politics and U.S. Foreign Policy since 1945 (2018); The Price of Loyalty: Hubert Humphrey’s Vietnam Conflict (2020); and Shaping a Peaceful World: The United States and Post-Conflict Diplomacy since 1789 (2026). In addition, he is past president of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association and received the Peter L. Hahn Distinguished Service Award from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations in 2025.