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Biography

Andrew Michta was born in Poland, the son of Józef and Adela (Stokowiec) Michta. 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 from 2005 to 09 and from 2011 to 13. In 2015 he left Rhodes and went 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

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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 is a Contributing Editor to 1945, an online national security website. 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. Michta is a Contributing Editor to online national security website 19FortyFive.

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. Michta has written a number of editorials from a standpoint sympathetic to or aligned with right wing populism. This includes work critical of

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as well as work attributing left-wing civil unrest in the United States to ideas passed down by political elites "unmoored from the fundamentals of this nation’s founding and its traditional commitment to building a decent society." Michta has also been critical of what he perceives as an open immigration policy in the EU, arguing that the rise of

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in Europe since 2015 exists as a popular "anti-establishment rebellion" against politicians' refusal to significantly restrict the intake of migrants and refugees.

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''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

References

External links

Book review
of ''The Limits of Alliance'' in the journal '' Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies'', Vol. 66, No. 2, Summer, 2007. {{DEFAULTSORT:Michta, Andrew A. 1956 births Living people American political scientists Johns Hopkins University alumni George Washington University faculty