Andrew A. Michta

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Andrew A. Michta

Andrew Alexander Michta (born April 4, 1956) is a political scientist, as well as an author of books and articles on U.S. and European security, NATO, transatlantic relations, civil-military relations, and democratization. He received his Ph.D. in International Relations from the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University (1987). He was a Fulbright Research Scholar and a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. (2000–2001). He is bilingual (English and Polish), fluent in Russian, and proficient in German and French.

He is presently a Senior Transatlantic Fellow, the Director of the German Marshall Fund of the United States office in Warsaw, a Mertie W. Buckman Distinguished Professor of International Studies at Rhodes College, and a Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. From 2005–2009 he was a Professor of National Security Studies and Director of Studies of the Senior Executive Seminar at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies in Germany. Previously, he was a Visiting Scholar at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University; a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center (September 2009–2011) in Washington, D.C.; and a Research Associate at the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies at The George Washington University.

He has contributed articles and book chapters on NATO enlargement, U.S. national security policy, European security, post-communist transition, civil-military relations, and U.S. security policy. His most recent book, The Limits of Alliance: The United States, NATO and the EU in North and Central Europe, was published by Rowman & Littlefield in 2006. He is currently completing a book on NATO and transatlantic security relations entitled, Getting the Balance Right: NATO and Transatlantic Security Relations in the Next Decade. Dr. Michta's books have been reviewed in Foreign Affairs, Osteuropa, Journal de Science Politique, Polish Review, Slavic Review, Russian Review, and Europe-Asia Studies.

He is a frequent consultant to the U.S. government, he has given lectures at universities in the United States and Europe, as well as the Foreign Service Institute, the U.S. State Department, the U.S. Naval Academy, and the Woodrow Wilson Center. As a highly regarded professor at Rhodes College, he has received the Clarence Day Dean's Award for Outstanding Research.

He is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, serves on the Advisory Council of the Center for European Policy Analysis in Washington, D.C., also serves on the Academic Advisory Committee to the East European Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and has served on the AAASS Board of Directors (2001–2004). Additionally, he is a member of several working groups including the PfP Consortium Black Sea Working Group.

Published books

• Red Eagle: The Army in Polish Politics, 1944–1988 (1990)
• East Central Europe After the Warsaw Pact: Security Dilemmas in the 1990s (1992)
• Post-Communist Eastern Europe: Crisis and Reform (1992) co-edited with Ilya Prizel
• The Government and Politics of Postcommunist Europe (1994)
• Polish Foreign Policy Reconsidered: Challenges of Independence (1994) co-edited with Ilya Prizel
• The Soldier-Citizen: The Politics of the Polish Army after Communism (1997)
• America's New Allies: Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic in NATO (1999), editor and contributor
• The Limits of Alliance: The United States, NATO and the EU in North and Central Europe (2006)