Susan Colbourn is a historian of international relations since 1945 who specializes in transatlantic relations, the politics of European security, and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

She is the author of Euromissiles: The Nuclear Weapons That Nearly Destroyed NATO, which came out with Cornell University Press in autumn 2022.

Colbourn is associate director of the Program in American Grand Strategy at Duke University, a flagship initiative for the study of US national security and foreign policy. At Duke, she develops and implements programming for students, faculty, and the broader community alongside her research and teaching.

Find her on social media – try BlueSky, Threads, or the remaining husk of Twitter – for a smattering of takes about the past, present, and future of transatlantic relations.