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.
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
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2024 - Present
Sanford School of Public Policy
Recent Publications
Ideas, Influence, and Impact
Journal Article Diplomatic History · June 1, 2024 Full text CiteEuromissiles 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. ... CiteImagining Nuclear War in the British Army, 1945–1989, by Simon J. Moody
Book Review The English Historical Review · August 18, 2021 Full text CiteRecent Grants
TISS: New Faces Project 2020-2022
ConferenceProject Manager · Awarded by Sarah Scaife Foundation, Inc. · 2020 - 2025International Crisis Behavior-Escalation, Alliance Formation, and Policy Choices
ResearchProgram Assistant · Awarded by University of Maryland · 2022 - 2023View All Grants
Education, Training & Certifications
University of Toronto (Canada) ·
2018
Ph.D.