Alexandra Gheciu holds a B.A. (Honours) in Political Science from York University, as well as an M.A. and a Ph.D. in International Relations from Cornell University. Between 1998 and 2000, she was a SSRC-MacArthur Foundation Doctoral Fellow on Peace and Security in a Changing World, and, in 2001-02, a Jean Monnet Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. She then moved to Oxford University, where she taught International Relations and conducted research for the Leverhulme Programme on the Changing Character of War. She is currently an Associate Professor at the Graduate School for Public and International Affairs, and Associate Director, Centre for International Policy Studies, University of Ottawa, Canada. Alexandra's first monograph, NATO in the 'New Europe', was published by Stanford University Press in 2005.