Garret Martin Hurst Senior Professorial Lecturer SIS | Foreign Policy & Global Security
- Additional Positions at AU
- Term Faculty
- Co-Director Transatlantic Policy Center
- Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Foreign Policy and Global Security
- Degrees
- PhD, London School of Economics and Political Science
- Languages Spoken
- French/English (native speaker)
- Favorite Spot on Campus
- SIS Atrium
- Bio
- Dr. Garret J. Martin is a Hurst Senior Professorial Lecturer, and the Co-Director of the Transatlantic Policy Center, in the School of International Service. He has written widely on transatlantic relations and Europe, both from a contemporary and historical perspective. His expertise covers EU-US relations, transatlantic security, US foreign policy, the European Union, NATO and the future of European security, European politics, with a focus on France and the UK. He is a frequent media commentator, providing analysis and interviews to national and international outlets, such as the BBC, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, Rai, French public radio, Radio Canada, or Nikkei.
- For the Media
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Teaching
Spring 2025
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SIS-653 Topics in U.S. Foreign Policy: Transatlantic Security
Fall 2025
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SIS-657 Continuity & Change in USFP
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SIS-760 Complex Problems Int'l Affairs
Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities
Research Interests
Dr. Martin’s research interests and expertise center on EU-US relations, transatlantic security, NATO and the future of European security, European politics (especially France and the United Kingdom), US foreign policy.
Selected Publications
- Germany's chancellor-in-waiting prioritizes 'real' independence from the US - but what does that mean and is it achievable?, The Conversation, February 2025.
- 4 things to watch for as NATO leaders meet in US capital for high-stakes summit, The Conversation, July 2024.
- NATO, China, and the Vilnius Summit, War on the Rocks, July 2023 (co-written with Jim Goldgeier)
- UK PM Sunak visits Washington to strengthen ties, watch baseball - having already struck out on a trade deal, The Conversation, June 2023.
- Boris Johnson's messy political legacy of lies, scandals and delivering Brexit to his base, The Conversation, July 2022.
- Past as Prologue? The United States and European Strategic Autonomy in the Biden Era, European Foreign Affairs Review, Special Issue, April 2022 (co-written with Ville Sinkkonen)
- NATO is about to launch a formal strategic review. Here’s what that means., Washington Post, June 2021 (co-written with Balazs Martonffy)
- NATO's Never-Ending Struggle for Relevance, War on the Rocks, September 2020 (co-written with Jim Goldgeier)
- NATO turns 70 this week. Here’s how the alliance stays relevant – despite Trump, Washington Post, April 2019 (co-written with Balazs Martonffy)
- General de Gaulle’s Cold War: Challenging American Hegemony, 1963-1968. New York: Berghahn Books, 2013