Prof. Heidi Hardt is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine. From 2021 to 2022, she was a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow (CFR-IAF TIRS) and worked for the State Department (NATO Desk), Senator Van Hollen and Congresswoman Porter. Hardt is the author of NATO’s Lessons in Crisis: Institutional Memory in International Organization and Time to React: The Efficiency of International Organizations in Crisis Response. Her research examines transatlantic security, European security and defense, NATO, the EU and OSCE. Issue areas include crisis management, collective defense, military operations (e.g. Afghanistan), climate security, strategy, learning, adaptation, change, gender (e.g. WPS, DEI) and political and military decision-making.
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Prof. Heidi Hardt is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine. From 2021 to 2022, she was a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow (CFR-IAF TIRS) in the State Department (NATO Desk), Senate and House of Representatives. She is the author of two books: NATO’s Lessons in Crisis: Institutional Memory in International Organization and Time to React: The Efficiency of International Organizations in Crisis Response (Oxford University Press, 2014). Her research examines transatlantic security, European security and defense and international institutions, including NATO, the EU and OSCE. Issue areas include crisis management, collective defense, military operations (e.g. Afghanistan), climate security, strategy, learning, adaptation, change, gender (e.g. WPS, DEI) and political and military decision-making. The NSF, Fulbright, NATO, Carnegie and the IGCC have funded her research, and her scholarship appears in the Journal of Politics, European Journal of International Relations,Review of International Organizations and other journals, books and venues.
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Prof. Heidi Hardt is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine. From 2021 to 2022, she was a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow (CFR-IAF TIRS) in the State Department (NATO Desk), Senate and House of Representatives. Hardt is the author of two books: NATO’s Lessons in Crisis: Institutional Memory in International Organization (Oxford University Press, 2018) and Time to React: The Efficiency of International Organizations in Crisis Response (Oxford University Press, 2014). Hardt’s research is published or forthcoming in the European Journal of International Relations, Journal of Politics, Global Governance, Review of International Organizations, PS: Political Science & Politics, the Journal of Global Security Studies, European Security and African Security. Her research examines transatlantic security, European security and defense and international institutions, including NATO, the EU and OSCE. Issue areas include crisis management, collective defense, military operations (e.g. Afghanistan), climate security, strategy, learning, adaptation, change, gender (e.g. WPS, DEI) and political and military decision-making.She also has expertise in organizational culture and diversity and inclusion in academia. In addition to her work for the State Department, Hardt's recent government experience includes advising U.S. Congresswoman Katie Porter and, subsequently, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen on foreign policy as part of her current fellowship. She has interviewed more than 300 political and military elites, and she has received more than $438,000 in funding for her research. Funders include the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Fulbright Commission, the Carnegie Foundation, the American Political Science Association (APSA), NATO Science for Peace and Security, the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC) and the University of California, Irvine. Hardt received her PhD from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva and her MSc in European Studies from the London School of Economics. She has also worked as an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Texas at Arlington and as a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Centre for International Peace and Security Studies (CEPSI) at the Université de Montréal and McGill University.