Stefan FRÖHLICH

Stefan Fröhlich (DE) was Professor for International Politics and Political Economy at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (2002-2024). He studied Political Science, Economics, English and Spanish in Bonn, Paris, Washington and Philadelphia (MA 1985). He holds a Ph. D in Political Science from the Department of Political Science in Bonn (1989). Habilitation (Dr.phil.habil) in Bonn (1996).

Director of the postgraduate “European Studies Program” at the Center for European Integration Studies in Bonn (1998-2002). Visiting Professor at the Center for Transatlantic Relations, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC (2002/3). Visiting Professor at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC (2007). Senior Fellow at the Transatlantic Academy of the German Marshall Fund of the United States in Washington DC (September 2016-May 2017). Visiting Professor at Otago University, New Zealand (August/September 2019).

Since 1998: Visiting Professor at the Universities of Antwerp, Bonn, Bologna, Brugge, Boston, Natolin, Milan, Innsbruck, Vienna, Tübingen, Budapest, Birmingham, London, Moscow, Zurich, Oxford and Washington. Since 2002: Senior Fellow at the Center for European Integration Studies in Bonn (CEI). Since 2023: Visiting Professor at the Center for Advanced Security, Strategic and Integration Studies (CASSIS), Bonn.

Fields of interests: EU foreign and security policy, transatlantic relations, German foreign policy, international political economy.

Author of numerous books and more than 200 articles – newly released books: Das Ende der Selbstfesselung. Deutsche Aussenpolitik in einer Welt ohne Führung, Springer 2019, The new Geopolitics of Transatlantic Relations. Coordinated Responses to Common Dangers, Washington 2012, Die EU als globaler Akteur (2nd, revised ed.), Wiesbaden 2014.

He is the author of numerous books and more than 200 articles. Selection of books:

• Fröhlich, Stefan. Markets, Power and Change. Germany’s Geoeconomic Turning Point. Wiesbaden: Springer, 2025.  
• Fröhlich, Stefan. Germany’s Geoeconomic Turning Point. Wiesbaden: Springer, 2025.The Transatlantic Turning Point. Wiesbaden: Springer, 2026.
• Fröhlich, Stefan, Jackson Janes, and Jeff Rathke. The Transatlantic Turning Point. What Europe Can Expect from the Next US Administration. Wiesbaden: Springer, 2026.
• Fröhlich, Stefan. Märkte, Macht und Wandel. Deutschlands geoökonomische Zeitenwende. Wiesbaden: Springer, 2025 (2nd ed.).
• Fröhlich, Stefan. Markets, Power and Change. Germany’s Geoeconomic Turning Point. Wiesbaden: Springer, 2025.
• Gebhardt, Jürgen and Stefan Fröhlich, eds. New Perspectives on Transatlantic Relations. Multidisciplinary Approaches. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2021.
• Fröhlich, Stefan. The End of Self-Bondage. German Foreign Policy in a World Without Leadership. Wiesbaden: Springer, 2021.
• Fröhlich, Stefan. Das Ende der Selbstfesselung. Deutsche Aussenpolitik in einer Welt ohne Führung. Wiesbaden: Springer, 2019.
• Fröhlich, Stefan and Howard Loewen, eds. The changing East Asian Security Landscape. Challenges, Actors and Governance. Wiesbaden: Springer, 2017.
• Fröhlich, Stefan. Die Europäische Union als globaler Akteur. Eine Einführung, 2nd ed. Wiesbaden: Springer, 2014.
• Fröhlich, Stefan. The New Geopolitics of Transatlantic Relations. Coordinated Responses to Common Dangers. Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2012.
• Fröhlich, Stefan. Die Europäische Union als Globaler Akteur. Wiesbaden: Springer, 2009.
• Fröhlich, Stefan. “The European Neighbourhood Policy: An adequate Instrument for Democratization?”, in European Neighbourhood Policy. Challenges for the EU policy towards the new neighbours, edited by Johannes Varwick and Kai-Olaf Lang, 75-86. Opladen/Farmington Hills: Barbara Budrich Publishers, 2007.
• Brimmer, Esther and Stefan Fröhlich, eds. The Strategic Implications of European Union Enlargement. Washington, D.C.: Center for Transatlantic Relations SAIS, 2005.
• Fröhlich, Stefan. “How much regional differentiation is necessary to establish a successful CSCE-analogous process in the Greater Middle East”, in ZEI-Discussion Paper, C 137 (2004).
• Fröhlich, Stefan. The Difficulties of EU Governance. What way forward for the EU Institutions? Frankfurt a.M.-Brussels: Peter Lang, 2004.
• Fröhlich, Stefan. Major tasks and the state of the art. The work of the EU Convention. Washington: SAIS, 2004.
• Fröhlich, Stefan. The EU and the US in the age of globalization. Washington, D.C.: Konrad-Adenauer Foundation, 2003.
• Fröhlich, Stefan. Die GASP der EU: Entwicklungen und Perspektiven. Bonn, 2002.
• Fröhlich, Stefan. Die Rolle des Bundeskanzleramtes im außenpolitischen Entscheidungsprozeß der Bundesrepublik zwischen in der Ära Kohl. Paderborn, 2001.
• Fröhlich, Stefan. Zwischen selektiver Verteidigung und globaler Überdehnung: Geostrategisches Denken in der amerikanischen Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik während des Kalten Krieges. Baden-Baden: Nomos-Verl.-Ges., 1998.
• Fröhlich, Stefan. Amerikanische Geopolitik von den Anfängen bis zum Ende des Zweiten Weltkrieges. München: Olzog Verlag, 1998.
• Fröhlich, Stefan. The New Transatlantic Agenda. Sankt Augustin, 1997.
• Fröhlich, Stefan. Die USA und die neue Weltordnung. Amerikanische Außenpolitik nach dem Ende des Kalten Krieges. Bonn: Bouvier Verlag, 1992.