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Susan E Colbourn

Associate Research Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy
Sanford School of Public Policy
Box 90316, Durham, NC 27708
302 Towerview Drive, 126 Rubenstein Hall, Box 90316, Durham, NC 27708

Overview


Susan Colbourn is associate research professor at the Sanford School of Public Policy and associate director of the Program in American Grand Strategy.

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.

Current Appointments & Affiliations


Associate Research Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy · 2024 - Present Sanford School of Public Policy

Recent Publications


Ideas, Influence, and Impact

Journal Article Diplomatic History · June 1, 2024 Full text Cite

Euromissiles The Nuclear Weapons That Nearly Destroyed NATO

Book · November 15, 2022 In Euromissiles, Susan Colbourn tells the story of the height of nuclear crisis and the remarkable waning of the fear that gripped the globe. ... Cite

Imagining Nuclear War in the British Army, 1945–1989, by Simon J. Moody

Book Review The English Historical Review · August 18, 2021 Full text Cite
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Recent Grants


TISS: New Faces Project 2020-2022

ConferenceProject Manager · Awarded by Sarah Scaife Foundation, Inc. · 2020 - 2025

International Crisis Behavior-Escalation, Alliance Formation, and Policy Choices

ResearchProgram Assistant · Awarded by University of Maryland · 2022 - 2023

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Education, Training & Certifications


University of Toronto (Canada) · 2018 Ph.D.

External Links


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