Andrew A. Michta is a nonresident senior fellow in the Atlantic Council’s
Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security. He is also professor of strategic
studies at the University of Florida’s Hamilton School for Classical and Civic
Education and the former dean of the College of International and Security
Studies at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies. He
holds a PhD in international relations from Johns Hopkins University. His areas
of expertise include international security, NATO, and European politics and
security, with a special focus on Central Europe and the Baltic states.

Previously, he was professor of national security affairs at the US 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 to 2015, he was the
M.W. Buckman distinguished professor of international studies at Rhodes
College. From 2013 to 2014, he was a senior fellow at the Center for
European Policy Analysis in Washington, DC, where he focused on defense
programming. From 2011 to 2013, he was a senior transatlantic fellow at the
German Marshall Fund of the United States and the founding director of the
organization’s Warsaw office. From 2009 to 2010, he was a senior scholar at
the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC. He
served as professor of national security studies and director of studies of the
Senior Executive Seminar at the George C. Marshall Center from 2005 to
2009. 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 George Washington University.

His books include The Limits of Alliance: The United States, NATO and the EU
in North and Central Europe (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006); The Soldier-
Citizen: The Politics of the Polish Army after Communism (St. Martin’s Press,
1997); The Government and Politics of Postcommunist Europe (Praeger
Publishers, 1994); East Central Europe After the Warsaw Pact: Security
Dilemmas in the 1990s (Greenwood Press, 1992); and Red Eagle: The Army
in Polish Politics, 1944-1988 (Hoover Press, 1990). He also edited and
contributed to America’s New Allies: Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic
in NATO (The University of Washington Press, 1999); and coedited, with Ilya
Prizel, Polish Foreign Policy Reconsidered: Challenges of Independence (St.
Martin’s Press, 1995) and Post-Communist Eastern Europe: Crisis and Reform
(St. Martin’s Press and Johns Hopkins Foreign Policy Institute, 1992).

His most recent book with Paal Hilde, The Future of NATO: Regional Defense and Global Security, was published by the University of Michigan Press in 2014.

Michta is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is fluent in Polish and Russian and proficient in German and French.