Heidi Hardt

Heidi Hardt is an associate professor of political science at the University of California, Irvine, and recipient of a 2021-2022 Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellowship for Tenured International Relations Scholars (IAF-TIRS). Her expertise is in transatlantic security, national security and European security and defense, including NATO, the EU and OSCE. Issue areas include transatlantic security cooperation, collective defense, crisis management, military operations (e.g. Afghanistan), coalition warfare, strategy, learning, adaptation, organizational change, gender and diplomacy. Hardt is the author of two books: NATO's Lessons in Crisis: Institutional Memory in International Organizations (Oxford UP, 2018) and Time to React : The Efficiency of International Organizations in Crisis Response (Oxford UP, 2014). Her research appears in or is forthcoming in journals such as European Journal of International Relations, Journal of Politics, Review of International Organizations, European Security and Global Governance. Her work has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Fulbright Commission and NATO Science for Peace and Security. Hardt received her PhD in international affairs from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland, in 2011.

Education

• Ph.D. Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva (2006 — 2011)
• ICPSR (2013 — 2013)
• Visiting Ph.D. Candidate Rice University (2009 — 2011)
• Ph.D. Yale University (2008 — 2009)
• MSc The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) (2005 — 2006)
• BA University of Southern California (2001 — 2005)
• BA University of Southern California (2001 — 2005)
• Bellaire

Companies

• Associate Professor UC Irvine (2019)
• Assistant Professor UC Irvine (2014 — 2019)
• Assistant Professor University of Texas at Arlington (2012 — 2014)
• Post-doctoral Fellow at the Centre for International Peace and Security Studies (CIPSS) McGill University and University of Montreal (2011 — 2012)
• Visiting Ph.D. Candidate Rice University (2009 — 2011)
• Research Assistant Yale University (2008 — 2009)
• Lecturer Sciences Po (2008 — 2008)
• Research Assistant Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF) (2007 — 2007)
• Research Assistant INSEAD (2005 — 2005)

Skills

• Analytical Skills
• Intercultural Communication
• European Union

Other

Economics, Proposal Writing, French, Spanish, Qualitative Research, Policy, International Security, Research, Political Science, International Relations