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	• Professor Michael N. Schmitt Dean and Professor of International Law • Ralph R. "Rick" Steinke Deputy Dean (U.S.) • Dr. Robert Brannon Director, Program in Advanced Security Studies and Professor of National Security Studies • Colonel Steven J. Briggs Executive Director, Program for Security, Stability, Transition and Reconstruction • Colonel Todd Brown Military Professor of International Security Studies • Lieutenant Colonel Christopher G. Cavoli Deputy Director, Program in Security, Stability, Transition and Reconstruction • Rear Admiral (L) Alberto Cervone Professor of Security Studies • Dr. John L. Clarke Professor of Leadership, Management and Defense Planning and Director, Program on Civil Security • Dr. Sabine Collmer Director, Research Program • Dr. Sharyl Cross Professor of National Security Studies • Colonel Peter Durr Deputy Director, Senior Executive Seminar and Professor of Security Studies • Captain Dean L. Dwigans Judge Advocate General’s Corps - U.S. Navy • Mr. Alexander Borissovitch Garin Professor of National Security Strategy • Dr. Gregory Gleason Professor of Eurasian Security Studies • Dr. Christopher C. Harmon Director, Program on Terrorism and Security Studies • Dr. Natalie Hassman Professor of Eurasian Studies • Commander Diplom Ingenieur Andreas Hildenbrand Lecturer and Tutor • Lieutenant Colonel John J. Kane III, USMC Deputy Director, Program on Terrorism and Security Studies • Dr. Elena Kovalova Professor of National Security Studies • Professor John Kriendler Professor of NATO and European Security Issues • Dr. John J. LeBeau Professor of Strategy and Security Studies • Colonel Jeff Lee Military Professor of International Security Studies • Colonel Donald Jack Liles Commandant of the Marine Corps Chair • Dr. Dragan Lozancic Professor of Security Studies • Dr. Andrew A. Michta Professor of National Security Studies and Director of Studies of the Senior Executive Seminar • Dr. Ann L. Phillips Director, Program for Security, Stability, Transition & Reconstruction • Professor Andrew Nichols (Nick) Pratt, Colonel, USMC (Ret.) Professor of Strategy and International Politics • Lieutenant Colonel Jeff Predmore Deputy Director, Program in Advanced Security Studies • Professor Fritz Rademacher Professor of International Security Studies • Lieutenant General (ret.) Jean-Paul Raffenne Director, Senior Executive Seminar • Dr. Matthew Rhodes Professor of National Security Studies • PD Dr. Ralf Roloff Senior German Professor • Colonel Peter Schneider Professor for Security Policy • Lieutenant Colonel (GS) Nicolas v. Thaden (German Army) Military Professor and Deputy Director, Program in Advanced Security Studies • Dr. John (Jack) M. Treddenick Professor of Defense Economics • Lieutenant Colonel (GS) Hans-Joerg Voll (German Army) Military Professor and Deputy Director, Program for Security, Stabilization, Transition and Reconstruction • Dr. Petra Weyland Professor of Middle Eastern Affairs • James Kenneth Wither (UK) Professor of National Security Studies; Director, Fellows Program • Brigadier-General Mag. Karl-Alexander Wohlgemuth Professor, Program for Advanced Security Studies

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Professor Andrew Nichols (Nick) Pratt, Colonel, USMC (Ret.)
Professor of Strategy and International Politics
College of International and Security Studies

Since August 1996, Professor Pratt has been Professor of Strategy and International Politics in the College of International and Security Studies. In the early organization of the Marshall Center, he served as a deputy department chairman. In 1998, he designed and was named the director of Leaders for the 21st Century, a security studies program oriented toward a younger participant. He organized and conducted twelve Leaders Courses. Following 9/11, he developed the Program on Terrorism and Security Studies and served as its director for eight sessions. In February 2008, he was requested to serve the US Special Envoy for Middle East Regional Security (SEMERS) in Jerusalem and on the West Bank and participate in support of US efforts to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He returned to the Marshall Center’s College in July 2008.

In addition to directing the PTSS, he has taught and lectured in all of the Marshall Center educational programs. He travels and lectures extensively and his primary research focuses on terrorism and insurgency. His regional interest is Central Asia and the Caucasus. Professor Pratt also developed the first advanced distance learning program for the Marshall Center, New Dimensions of Security: Terrorism and Organized Crime, and Their Implications for Democratic States.

Prior to his retirement from the Marine Corps, he served as Director of the Marine Corps Command and Staff College and the Marine War College. Throughout his career, he was privileged to command extensively and at every level, from a CIA Special Operations Group (SOG) team that conducted covert operations in denied areas in support of U.S. national security objectives overseas, to a Battalion Landing Team deployed in the Persian Gulf. He has participated in active operations in the Near East, Africa, and Southeast Asia. In addition to serving with Marines, he served from 1978-1979 with the U.S. Military Observation Group which supported the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization, Southern Lebanon. He also served in the White House during the close of the Nixon administration and the transition into the Ford administration.

Professor Pratt received his undergraduate degree in engineering at the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland and holds two Master of Arts degrees, one in National Security and Strategic Studies from the Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island and one in International Relations from The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. He has “survival” knowledge of Arabic and Italian and is improving his college undergraduate German on a daily basis.

Publications

“It is what you do that defines you: Has Post-9/11 US Policy Altered Trans-Atlantic Relations?” & “What Makes Bin Laden Tick? It’s Not What You Think!” In Liliana Brozic (ed.), Bilten Slovenske Vojske. Slovenia: Naklada, September 9, 2007.
“It’s What You Do That Defines You: Has Post-9/11 US Policy Altered Trans-Atlantic Relations?” In Ganor, Knop, Neisser & Salnikov (eds.), Security, Terrorism and Privacy in the Information Society. Germany: Bertlesmann Verlang GmbH & Co., 2006.
“Human Trafficking: The Nadir Of An Unholy Trinity.” In Aldis and Herd (eds.), Soft Security Threats and European Security, United Kingdom: Routledge, 2005.
“What Makes Bin Laden Tick? It’s Not What You Think!” The American Thinker. Retrieved December 14, 2004 from http://www.americanthinker.com/2004/12/what_makes_bin_laden_tick.html.
“Human Trafficking: The Nadir of An Unholy Trinity.” European Security, 13(1-2), pp. 55-71, February 1, 2004.
“9/11 and the Future of Terrorism: Same Nature, Different Face.” In Michael N. Schmitt (ed.), Terrorism and International Law: Challenges and Responses. Italy: Dragan European Foundation, 2003.
“Small wars, The Past as Prologue, an Alternate Vision of Future Conflict.” Militaire Spectator, 171(7/8), pp. 381-399, 2002.
"The Soviet Army’s Withdrawal from Afghanistan in Perspective." Book review in Marine Corps Gazette, December, 1996.
“Low-Intensity Conflict and the United States Marine Corps.” In Low-Intensity Conflict and Modern Conflict. Maxwell Air Force Base, AL: Air University Press, Center for Aerospace Doctrine, Research and Education, June 1986.

Last updated: October 25, 2008