Susan Colbourn

Susan Colbourn is a historian of post-1945 international affairs who specializes in the politics of European security, the role of nuclear weapons, 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 for occasional takes on the past, present, and future of transatlantic relations.