Gabriela Marin Thornton
Lecturer
Gabriela Marin Thornton is a lecturer at the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University. She received an M.A. in international studies (2002) and a Ph.D. in international studies (2006) from the University of Miami. Presently she teaches classes on the European Union, European security and defense policy in the transatlantic context, and democratization processes. From April 2007 through December 2007, she was EU faculty coordinator at the EU Center of Excellence at Texas A&M University. Her most important publications include "The Paradox of the Transatlantic Security Project: From Taming European Power to Dividing It," International Politics (March 2008), "The Russian Federation and the Commonwealth of Independent States," (with Roger E. Kanet) in The New Security Environment: The Impact on Russia, Central and Eastern Europe edited by Roger E. Kanet (Ashgate Publishing, 2005), "State, Identity and Security in Central and Eastern Europe: Recent English Language Publications," (with Roger E. Kanet, Lucia S. Minervine, and Kimberley A. Roberts) in Osteuropa (December 2003), and "The European Union: Teleology and Some Challenges of the Eastern Enlargement," published by the Center for European Policy Studies in Policy Briefs (March 2002). Presently she is working on a book entitled European Security in the Post-Cold War Era: Whither Europe?
