Education
Michta has a Doctor of Philosophy in International Relations from the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University (1987).
Michta has a Doctor of Philosophy in International Relations from the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University (1987).
He is bilingual (English and Polish), fluent in Russian, and proficient in German and French. The British Broadcasting Corporation characterized him as "a well-known expert on security issues." He is the M.W. Buckman Distinguished Professor of International Studies at Rhodes College, a predominantly undergraduate college in Memphis, Tennessee. He was on leave 2005-2009 and 2011-present.
As of May 2011, he is the Senior Transatlantic Fellow and the Director of the Warsaw branch office of the German Marshall Fund of the United States.
From 2005-2009, 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 The George Washington University. From 2000-2001 he was at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, District of Columbia: The United States, North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the European Union in North and Central Europe, was published by Rowman & Littlefield in 2006.
Michta has argued that the United States and North Atlantic Treaty Organization missed opportunities after the September 11, 2001 attack to revitalize the North Atlantic Treaty Organization alliance.
Specifically he argues that North Atlantic Treaty Organization should have taken the lead in Afghanistan. Michta has explored the implications of North Atlantic Treaty Organization"s institutional effort to use its enlargement process as a means to advance civil-military reform in Eastern Europe. Michta argues that North Atlantic Treaty Organization"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 Czechoslovakian Republic.
He concludes that these three new North Atlantic Treaty Organization 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.
2000–2001).
He is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, serves on the Advisory Council of the Center for European Policy Analysis in Washington, District of Columbia, and has served on the AAASS Board of Directors (2001–2004).
