Garret Martin Hurst Senior Professorial Lecturer Foreign Policy & Global Security
- Additional Positions at AU
- Term Faculty
- Co-Director Transatlantic Policy Center
- Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Foreign Policy and Global Security
- Degrees
- PhD, London School of Economics and Political Science
- Languages Spoken
- French/English (native speaker)
- Favorite Spot on Campus
- SIS Atrium
- Bio
- Dr. Garret J. Martin is a Senior Professorial Lecturer, and the Co-Director of the Transatlantic Policy Center, in the School of International Service. He has written widely on transatlantic relations and Europe, both in the field of history and contemporary affairs, and focuses in particular on security, US foreign policy, NATO, European politics, European foreign policy and defense, Europe, the European Union, France and the UK. He is a frequent media commentator, providing analysis and interviews, among others, to NPR, the BBC, CNN, Voice of America, USA Today, WUSA, ABC News Australia and France 24.
- For the Media
- To request an interview for a news story, call AU Communications at 202-885-5950 or submit a request.
Teaching
Summer 2024
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SIS-603 Special Inst in Int'l Affairs: NATO at 75: What's Next
Fall 2024
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SIS-653 Topics in U.S. Foreign Policy: Continuity & Change in USFP
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SISU-213 Contemporary Europe
Spring 2025
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SIS-653 Topics in U.S. Foreign Policy: Transatlantic Security
Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities
Research Interests
Dr. Martin’s research interests and expertise center on the history of and current transatlantic relations, NATO, European politics, security, US foreign policy, common European foreign policy and defense, the European Union.
Selected Publications
- , The Conversation, July 2024.
- , The Conversation, May 2024.
- , War on the Rocks, July 2023 (co-written with Jim Goldgeier)
- , The Conversation, June 2023.
- , The Conversation, July 2022.
- , European Foreign Affairs Review, Special Issue, April 2022 (co-written with Ville Sinkkonen)
- , Washington Post, June 2021 (co-written with Balazs Martonffy)
- , War on the Rocks, September 2020 (co-written with Jim Goldgeier)
- , Washington Post, April 2019 (co-written with Balazs Martonffy)
- .Ìý New York: Berghahn Books, 2013
AU Experts
Area of Expertise
U.S. foreign policy; European Union; European politics; NATO; Transatlantic relations; Security; France; the United Kingdom; Germany; Western Europe; the Balkans
Additional Information
Garret J. Martin is a Senior Professorial Lecturer at the School of International Service of American University and the Co-Director of the Transatlantic Policy Center. He has written widely on transatlantic relations, both in the field of history and contemporary affairs, and focuses in particular on security, U.S. foreign policy, European politics, foreign policy and defense, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom. He is the author of General de Gaulle's Cold War: Challenging American Hegemony, 1963-1968 (Berghahn Books, 2013).
For the Media
To request an interview for a news story, call AU Communications at 202-885-5950 or submit a request.