3 May 2017, 6:30pm
William Mong Hall, Sidney Sussex College, 海角社区
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International security expert Andrew Michta joined听us in 海角社区 to give a lecture on NATO and Eastern Europe in the era of the new US presidential administration of Donald Trump, giving particular attention to Poland's role in the region.
Dr Michta is the Dean of the听听in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.
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Prior to coming to the Marshall Center, Dr Michta听was Professor of National Security Affairs at the U.S. Naval War College, an Adjunct Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (Europe Program) and an affiliate of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University. From 1988-2015 he was the M.W. Buckman Distinguished Professor of International Studies at Rhodes College. From 2013-14, he was a Senior Fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis in Washington, D.C. where he focused on defense programming. From 2011鈥�13, he was a Senior Transatlantic Fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMFUS) and the founding director of the GMFUS Warsaw office. From 2009-10, he was a Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. He served as Professor of National Security Studies and Director of Studies of the Senior Executive Seminar at the Marshall Center from 2005-09. Previously, he was a Visiting Scholar at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace at Stanford University, a Public Policy Scholar at the Wilson Center, and a Research Associate at the Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies at the George Washington University.
He is a regular contributor for the column 鈥�On Europe and Security鈥�, in听The American Interest, a non-partisan journal devoted to the broad theme of 鈥淎merica in the world鈥�. He is also a regular contributor Carnegie Europe's flagship blog "Strategic Europe", where he writes on transatlantic relations, security and defense issues. His books include听The Limits of Alliance: The United States, NATO and the EU in North and Central Europe听(Rowman & Littlefield, 2006);听America鈥檚 New Allies: Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic in NATO, editor and contributor, (The University of Washington Press, 1999);听The Soldier-Citizen: The Politics of the Polish Army after Communism听(St. Martin鈥檚 Press, 1997);听Polish Foreign Policy Reconsidered: Challenges of Independence听(St. Martin鈥檚 Press, 1995), co-author and co-editor w/Ilya Prizel;听The Government and Politics of Postcommunist Europe听(Praeger Publishers, 1994);听Post-Communist Eastern Europe: Crisis and Reform听(St. Martin's Press and Johns Hopkins Foreign Policy Institute, 1992), co-editor and contributor w/Ilya Prizel;听East Central Europe After the Warsaw Pact: Security Dilemmas in the 1990s听(Greenwood Press, 1992); and听Red Eagle: The Army in Polish Politics, 1944-1988听(Hoover Press, 1990).
His most recent book with Paal Hilde,听The Future of NATO: Regional Defense and Global Security听was published by the University of Michigan Press in 2014
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Photo Credit: Radio Poland
