Professor Heidi Hardt

Heidi Hardt is a 2021-2022 Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow (CFR-TIRS) in the U.S. State Department while on sabbatical from her job as an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine. Most recently, she was a Foreign Policy Fellow working for a U.S. Congresswoman and subsequently a U.S. Senator serving on the SFRC. Her research examines transatlantic security, European security and defense and international institutions, including NATO, the EU and OSCE. Issue areas include international organizations, collective defense, crisis management, military operations (e.g. Afghanistan), strategy, learning, adaptation, change, gender and diplomacy. Hardt has authored 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). The NSF, Fulbright, NATO and Carnegie 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