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Stefan Fröhlich

b. 1958

German political scientist

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Born 1958. Stefan Fröhlich is a German political scientist, university teacher and political science.

Stefan Fröhlich (born 1958 in Bonn, Germany) is a German political scientist and professor of International Relations at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg. The emphasis in his work is on German foreign policy, transatlantic relations and US foreign policy, European foreign and security policy, and International Political Economy.

Education and career From 1979 to 1985 Fröhlich, studied political science, English studies, Hispanism, and economics in Bonn, Paris, Philadelphia and Washington D.C. Afterwards, he worked as a research associate for the German Bundestag till 1989 and as an assistant lecturer in the Institute for Political Science at the University of Bonn (1989–1994). After he completed his habilitation thesis in political science at Bonn University (1996), Fröhlich worked as a substitute professor at the University Trier. In 1997, he was an associate at the Deutschen Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik (German Society for Foreign Politics) and an associate professor at Bonn University. Subsequently, Fröhlich was program director of the post-graduate course of lectures "European Studies" at the Zentrum für Europäische Integrationsforschung (ZEI, Centre for European Integration Research) at the University of Bonn until 2002. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Politikwissenschaft Deutsche Gesellschaft für auswärtige Politik (DGAP) (German Council on Foreign Relations) Arbeitskreis Europäische Integration Deutsche Atlantische Gesellschaft (board of directors) Advisory Board, the Harris German/Dartmouth Distinguished Visiting Professorship at Dartmouth College Advisory Board of Kölner Forums für Internationale Beziehungen und Sicherheitspolitik (KFIBS, Cologne Panel for International Relations and security policy)

Publications (monographs) The New Geopolitics of Transatlantic Relations. Coordinated Responses to Common Dangers. Washington DC: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012 Zehn Jahre Deutschland in Afghanistan (Hrsg. mit Klaus Brummer). In: Zeitschrift für Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik, Sonderheft 3/2011 Die EU als globaler Akteur. Lehrbuch, VS-Verlag, 2008 Strategic Implications of Euro-Atlantic Enlargement (Hrsg. mit Esther Brimmer), Washington 2005 The Difficulties of EU Governance: What way forward for the EU Institutions? Frankfurt a. M.: Peter Lang-Verlag, 2004 Auf den Kanzler kommt es an. Außen- und Europapolitik in der Ära Kohl in den achtziger Jahren, Paderborn: Schöningh-Verlag, 2001 Amerikanische Geopolitik. Von den Anfängen bis zum Ende des Zweiten Weltkrieges, Landsberg: Olzog Verlag, 1998 Zwischen selektiver Verteidigung und globaler Eindämmung. Geostrategisches Denken in den USA während der Jahrzehnte des Kalten Krieges, Baden-Baden: Nomos 1998 Die USA und die neue Weltordnung. Amerikanische Außenpolitik nach dem Ende des Kalten Krieges, Bonn/Berlin: Bouvier Verlag, 1992 Nuclear Freeze Campaign. Die Kampagne für das Einfrieren der Nuklearwaffen unter der Reagan-Administration, Opladen: Leske und Budrich, 1990

Publications (case studies) Future Perspectives for Transatlantic Relations. American Institute for Contemporary German Studies. Juni 2012 Major tasks and the state of the art. The work of the EU Convention, Washington, SAIS 2004 Globalization and the future of the transatlantic relations, Policy Paper, KAS, Berlin, März 2003 Die GASP der EU: Entwicklungen und Perspektiven, ZEI/Discussion Paper, Dezember 2002 Der Ausbau der Europäischen Verteidigungsidentität zwischen WEU und NATO. Zentrum für Europäische Integrationsforschung (ZEI), Discussion Paper, Bonn, Juli 1998 Möglichkeiten amerikanisch-europäischer Kooperation: Der Aktionsplan zur Transatlantischen Agenda, Sankt Augustin 1997 Fragen einer institutionellen Gestaltung der internationalen Ordnung. Zur aktuellen Theoriedebatte, Studie für den Bereich Forschung und Beratung der Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS), Sankt Augustin 1996

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1958, Bonn
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University of Bonn
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University of Erlangen–Nuremberg, German Bundestag, University of Bonn, German Council on Foreign Relations

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