Susan Colbourn is a historian of post-1945 international affairs at Duke University, where she is associate director of the Program in American Grand Strategy and an associate research professor at the Sanford School of Public Policy.
She is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and associate editor of the Texas National Security Review.
Colbourn is the author of Euromissiles: The Nuclear Weapons That Nearly Destroyed NATO, which came out with Cornell University Press in autumn 2022. Currently, she is at work on a handful of projects dealing with NATO’s place in the international order, including a history of the alliance from its founding to the present.
You can occasionally find her on social media, posting these days over on Bluesky.