Susan E Colbourn

Susan Colbourn is associate director of the Program in American Grand Strategy at Duke University. A diplomatic and international historian, she specializes in European security, the politics of nuclear weapons, and the history of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

She is the author of Euromissiles: The Nuclear Weapons That Nearly Destroyed NATO, published by Cornell University Press in November 2022.

Prior to joining Duke, Colbourn held fellowships at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and International Security Studies at Yale University.

Colbourn holds a Ph.D. in History from the University of Toronto with a concentration in modern international relations. She also holds an MA from the London School of Economics and an Hon. BA from Trinity College in the University of Toronto.