Jeffrey H. Michaels joins HCSS as Strategic Advisor in Defence and International Security.

HCSS is very proud to announce that Jeffrey H. Michaels has joined us as a (non-resident) Strategic Advisor in Defence and International Security!

Dr. Jeffrey H. Michaels is the IEN Senior Fellow in American Foreign Policy and International Security at the Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals. He is also a Visiting Fellow at the King’s College London Centre for Science and Security Studies and the Oxford Changing Character of War Centre. In 2023-2024 he was the Senior Eisenhower Defense Fellow at the NATO Defense College in Rome. Earlier in his career he was a Senior Lecturer in Defence Studies and Research Associate in War Studies at King’s. He also served as an official with NATO and the U.S. Department of Defense.

He is the co-editor with Tim Sweijs of Beyond Ukraine: Debating the Future of War (2024), co-author with Lawrence Freedman of The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy, 4th Edition (2019), co-editor with Lawrence Freedman of Scripting Middle East Leaders (2013), and author of The Discourse Trap and the US Military: From the War on Terror to the Surge (2013).

His research covers the fields of war studies, nuclear strategy, deterrence, U.S. foreign policy, NATO, intelligence, and Cold War history. It has been published in The European Journal of International Security, The Journal of Cold War Studies, Presidential Studies Quarterly, The Journal of Strategic Studies, Political Science Quarterly, International Politics, Diplomacy and Statecraft, the RUSI Journal, Contemporary Security Policy and Orbis. He was awarded the Christopher Coker Prize by the journal International Politics and the Amos Perlmutter Prize by the Journal of Strategic Studies.

On joining HCSS, Michaels says:

“In this period of large-scale war in Europe, centres of strategic studies are needed more than ever. It is a great honor to be affiliated with HCSS, the leading centre in the Netherlands. I look forward to contributing to their research in the fields of Transatlantic security, deterrence, intelligence, and the future of war.”