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<div style="text-align:center"> <span
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<div style="text-align:center"><font size="5"><strong><u>Korean
Peninsula Issues, Indo-Pacific Security
Landscape and US National Security</u></strong><strong><u><br>
</u></strong><strong></strong></font><u><font
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of NK Nuclear and Missile Capability</strong></font></u></div>
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2026 7:00 PM \u2013</strong><strong> 8:15 PM
EDT Washington DC</strong><br>
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<font size="4">We are pleased to share with you
that Andrew Michta will address the virtual <span
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Symposium<span
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with a particular emphasis on "Korean Peninsula
Issues, Indo-Pacific Security Landscape and US
National Security" on August 13, 2026,
Washington DC.</font></div>
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<font size="4">Andrew A Michta is Professor
of Strategic Studies at the Hamilton
School. Before joining Hamilton, he was a
Senior Fellow with the GeoStrategy
Initiative in the Atlantic Council\u2019s
Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security
and the former dean of the College of
International and Security Studies at the
George C Marshall European Center for
Security Studies. Andrew holds a PhD in
international relations from the Johns
Hopkins University. His areas of expertise
are international security, NATO, and
European politics and security, with a
special focus on Central Europe and the
Baltic states.</font><br>
<font size="4">Previously, Andrew was
professor of national security affairs at
the US Naval War College, an adjunct
fellow at the Center for Strategic and
International Studies\u2019 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, Andrew was a senior
fellow at the Center for European Policy
Analysis in Washington, DC, where he
focused on defense programming. From 2011
to 2013, Andrew was a senior transatlantic
fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the
United States and the founding director of
the organization\u2019s Warsaw office. From
2009 to 2010, he was a senior scholar at
the Woodrow Wilson International Center
for Scholars in Washington, DC. Andrew
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.</font><br>
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<div class="gmail-moz-text-html"><font
size="4">His books include <em
style="outline:currentcolor">The Limits
of Alliance: The United States, NATO and
the EU in North and Central Europe </em>(Rowman
& Littlefield, 2006);<em
style="outline:currentcolor"> The
Soldier-Citizen: The Politics of the
Polish Army after Communism </em>(St
Martin\u2019s Press, 1997); <em
style="outline:currentcolor">The
Government and Politics of Postcommunist
Europe </em>(Praeger Publishers, 1994);<em
style="outline:currentcolor"> East
Central Europe After the Warsaw Pact:
Security Dilemmas in the 1990s</em> (Greenwood
Press, 1992); and <em
style="outline:currentcolor">Red Eagle:
The Army in Polish Politics, 1944-1988 </em>(Hoover
Press, 1990). Andrew also edited and
contributed to <em
style="outline:currentcolor">America\u2019s
New Allies: Poland, Hungary and the
Czech Republic in NATO </em>(The
University of Washington Press, 1999); and
coedited, with Ilya Prizel, <em
style="outline:currentcolor">Polish
Foreign Policy Reconsidered: Challenges
of Independence </em>(St Martin\u2019s Press,
1995) and <em style="outline:currentcolor">Post-Communist
Eastern Europe: Crisis and Reform </em>(St
Martin\u2019s Press and Johns Hopkins Foreign
Policy Institute, 1992). </font><font
size="4">Andrew's most recent book with
Paal Hilde, <em
style="outline:currentcolor">The Future
of NATO: Regional Defense and Global
Security</em>, was published by the
University of Michigan Press in 2014. He
is currently completing a book <em
style="outline:currentcolor">Europe
Reconfigured: US Europe Strategy for an
Age of Great Power Conflict</em>, funded
by a two-year grant from the Smith
Richardson Foundation. The book will be
published in 2026.</font><br>
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<div class="gmail-moz-text-html"><font
size="4">Andrew is a life member of the
Council on Foreign Relations. He is also a
Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic
Council and a Visiting Fellow at the
Hoover Institution on War Revolution and
Peace at Stanford University. Andrew is
fluent in Polish and Russian and
proficient in German and French.</font><font
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