Andrew A. Michta

Andrew Alexander Michta (born April 4, 1956) is a political scientist and Dean of the College of International and Security Studies at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies in Germany. Previously he was Professor of National Security Affairs at the US Naval War College. He was also an affiliate of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, an Adjunct Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies – Europe Program in Washington, DC, and an adjunct political scientist at the RAND Corporation.

Biography

He holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from the School of Advanced International Studies at the Johns Hopkins University (1987). From 1988–2015 he was the M.W. Buckman Distinguished Professor of International Studies at Rhodes College, a predominantly undergraduate college in Memphis, Tennessee. There he received the Clarence Day Dean's Award for Outstanding Research. He was on leave 2005–09 and 2011–13. In 2015 he left Rhodes and to teach in the JPME system at the US Naval War College graduate program.

While on leave From Rhodes, from May 2011–13 he was the Senior Transatlantic Fellow and the founding Director of the Warsaw branch office of the German Marshall Fund of the United States. From 2005–09, he was 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. He was a Visiting Scholar at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University and a Research Associate at the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies at George Washington University. From 2000–2001 he was at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. (2000–2001).

He is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. He served on the Advisory Council of the Center for European Policy Analysis in Washington, D.C. and has served on the AAASS Board of Directors (2001–2004). He was Senior Fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis from 2013–14. The BBC characterized him as "a well-known expert on security issues." He speaks several languages, including English, French, German, Polish), and Russian.

Views

Michta has argued that the United States and NATO missed opportunities after the September 11, 2001 attack to revitalize the NATO alliance. Specifically he argues that NATO should have taken the lead in Afghanistan.

Michta has explored the implications of NATO's institutional effort to use its enlargement process as a means to advance civil-military reform in Eastern Europe. Michta argues that NATO's requirement that all new members must meet specific goals of democratic civilian control over its military was especially successful in reforming Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic. He concludes that these three new NATO members have made dramatic efforts to depoliticize their military, in contrast to the political control during the communist era. Thereby the democratic forces in these countries have been strengthened.

Works

• The Limits of Alliance: The United States, NATO and the EU in North and Central Europe. Rowman & Littlefield (2006).
• The Soldier-Citizen
• Polish Foreign Policy Reconsidered
• East Central Europe after the Warsaw Pact
• The Government and Politics of Postcommunist Europe
• America's New Allies: Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic in NATO

• "Featured Publications". 
• Book review of The Soldier-Citizen in the journal Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Vol. 58, No. 1, Spring, 1999. Review by: Jerzy J. Wiatr
• Book review of The Soldier-Citizen in the journal Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 50, No. 7, Nov., 1998. Review by: Beata Rozumilowicz
• Book review of The Soldier-Citizen in the journal Foreign Affairs, May–June 1998 v77 n3 p138(2). Review by: Eliot A. Cohen
• Book review of Polish Foreign Policy Reconsidered in the journal Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 48, No. 8, Dec., 1996. Review by: A. J. Prazmowska
• Book review of East Central Europe after the Warsaw Pact in the journal Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Vol. 54, No. 2, Summer, 1995. Review by: Robert Ponichtera
• Book review of The Government and Politics of Postcommunist Europe in the journal Canadian Slavonic Papers, Vol. 36, No. 3/4, September-De... Review by: Serge Cipko.
• Book review of America's New Allies: Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic in NATO in the journal Europe-Asia Studies, March 2001 v53 i2 p361. Review by ANASTASIA V. MITROFANOVA