Stephen Szabo

Stephen Francis Szabo is an American political scientist and educator who specializes in foreign policy. He was executive director of the German Marshall Fund Transatlantic Academy and a faculty member at Johns Hopkins University and the National Defense University.

Education Szabo received a BA and MA from the School of International Service at the American University, and his PhD from Georgetown University in political science. He completed his PhD in 1977, with a dissertation titled Party Recruitment in the Federal Republic of Germany: Candidate Selection in a West German state.

Career Szabo is a political scientist and educator specialized in foreign policy.

Selected publications

Germany, Russia, and the Rise of Geo-economics (2015) London [etc.] : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. Parting Ways: The Crisis in German-American Relations (2004),Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, ©2004.the book is about the deterioration of the relationship between Washington and Berlin in the run-up to the second Iraq War Research Support for Political Scientists: A Guide to Sources of Funds for Research Fellowships, Grants, and Contracts. The Diplomacy of German Reunification (1992), New York : St. Martin's Press, 1994. The book attributes German reunification to skillful political leadership and adept negotiations by well-positioned German and American political elites. The Changing Politics of German Security (1990) London : Pinter, 1990.