Andrew A. Michta

Andrew Alexander Michta: (born April 4, 1956) is a political scientist, author of books and articles on U.S. and European security, NATO, transatlantic relations, civil-military relations and democratization. He received his Ph.D. at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. He is currently the M. W. Buckman Distinguished Professor of International Studies at Rhodes College in the United States. He is also a Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, DC (September 2009-August 2011). From 2005-2009 he was a Professor of National Security Studies at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies in Germany.

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 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 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 lectured at universities in the U.S. and Europe, as well as the Foreign Service Institute, the U.S. State Department, the Woodrow Wilson Center, the U.S. Naval Academy. He was a Fulbright Research Scholar and a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C (2000–01). He has received the Clarence Day Dean’s Award for Outstanding Research.

He has served on the Woodrow Wilson Center Fellows selection panel, the AAASS Program Committee for Political Science/Law, and the Barbara Jelavich Book Prize Selection Committee, 2000-03. He served on the AAASS Board of Directors (2001–04). He is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London and has been nominated for membership on the Council on Foreign Relations. He is an associate of the Institute of European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies at the George Washington University and a Visiting Scholar at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He serves on the Academic Advisory Committee to the East European Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

In June 2011 he became the first director of the German Marshall Fund of the United States office in Warsaw. He also serves as a Senior Transatlantic Fellow at GMF.