Dr. Andrew A. Michta Biography

Dr. Andrew A. Michta

Dr. Andrew A. Michta is Professor of National Security Studies and Deputy Director of the Senior Executive Seminar at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies in Germany.  He is also the Mertie W. Buckman Distinguished Professor of International Studies at Rhodes College in Tennessee (on leave 2005-2009).  He holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C. (1987).

Professor Michta is the author of several books on European security and transatlantic relations.  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, US national security policy, European security, post-communist transition, civil-military relations, and US 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 US 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 U.S. Naval Academy, and the Woodrow Wilson Center.  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. 

Professor Michta is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London.  He is a member of several working groups, including the PfP Consortium Black Sea Working Group.  He serves on the Academic Advisory Committee to the East European Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.  He is also 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.   

Expertise

International Relations, US Foreign and National Security Policy, NATO Enlargement, Civil-Military Relations, Central European Politics and Security

Publications

• “What Next for NATO?” Orbis, Winter 2007.
• The Limits of Alliance: The US, NATO and the EU in North and Central Europe, (Rowman and Littlefield, 2006).
• “Transatlantic Troubles: Are They America’s Loss?” The National Interest, November/December 2006.
• "Central Europe and the Baltic Littoral in NATO," Orbis, Summer, 2004.
• "The Baltic States in NATO: What Do They Bring to the Alliance?" The Transatlantic Relationship: Problems and Prospects (Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center, 2003).
• "Modernizing the Polish Military,"Defence Studies (vol. 2, no. 2, 2002).
• "NATO Standards and Military Reform in Poland: A Revolution from Without," in Ronald H. Linden, ed., Norms and Nannies: The Impact of International Organizations on the Central and East European States (Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2002).
• "Civil-Military Relations in the New NATO: The Standard and the Boundaries of Professionalism," in S. Victor Papacosma, Sean Kay, and Mark Rubin, eds.,NATO after Fifty Years (Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 2001).
• "In the Middle or on the Periphery: Central Europe after NATO Enlargement," NATO Enlargement and Peacekeeping (Washington, DC, East European Studies, Woodrow Wilson Center, 2001).
• "NATO After the Kosovo Campaign and the KFOR Peacekeeping Operations: What Has Changed?" NATO Enlargement and Peacekeeping (Washington, DC, East European Studies, Woodrow Wilson Center, 2001).
• "Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic in NATO: Producers or Consumers of Security?" Proceedings: NATO Enlargement After 2002: Opportunities and Challenges (Washington, DC, National Defense University, April, 2001).
• America’s New Allies: Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic in NATO, editor and co-author (Seattle, WA: The University of Washington Press, 1999).
• "Democratic Consolidation in Poland after 1989," in Karen Dawisha and Bruce Parrott, eds.,The Consolidation of Democracy in East-Central Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997).
• The Soldier-Citizen: The Politics of the Polish Army after Communism, (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997).
• Polish Foreign Policy Reconsidered: Challenges of Independence, co-editor and co-author with Ilya Prizel (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1995).
• The Government and Politics of Postcommunist Europe, (Westport, CT and London: Praeger Publishers, 1994).
• Post-Communist Eastern Europe: Crisis and Reform, co-editor and co-author with Ilya Prizel (New York: St. Martin's Press and Johns Hopkins Foreign Policy Institute, 1992).
• East Central Europe After the Warsaw Pact: Security Dilemmas in the 1990s, (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1992).
• Red Eagle: The Army in Polish Politics, 1944-1988 (Stanford, CA: Hoover Press, 1990).