andrew alexander michta born april 4 1956 is a political scientist he is bilingual english and polish fluent in russian and proficient in german and french the bbc characterized him as a wellknown expert on security issuesmichta has a phd in international relations from the school of advanced international studies at johns hopkins university 1987 he is the mw buckman distinguished professor of international studies at rhodes college a predominantly undergraduate college in memphis tennessee there he received the clarence day deans award for outstanding research he was on leave 200509 and 2011present 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 200509 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 20002001 he was at the woodrow wilson center in washington dc 20002001he 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 dc and has served on the aaass board of directors 20012004the limits of alliance the united states nato and the eu in north and central europe was published by rowman littlefield in 2006michta 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 afghanistanmichta has explored the implications of natos institutional effort to use its enlargement process as a means to advance civilmilitary reform in eastern europe michta argues that natos 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