As geopolitical tensions rise, the transatlantic relationship faces new challenges, and domestic political uncertainty grows on both sides of the Atlantic, Germany faces critical questions about its role and responsibilities in Europe and the world. How can German leaders navigate domestic political pressures while strengthening Germany’s capacity to shape international affairs?
Join the ACG on Thursday, October 29 at 11:00 am ET for a virtual discussion with political scientist and author Dr. Stefan Fröhlich about Germany’s evolving leadership role, its foreign policy priorities, and the prospects for a constructive transatlantic partnership in an increasingly unpredictable world.
Dr. Stefan Fröhlich is Professor of International Politics and Political Economy at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. He is currently also a guest professor at the College of Europe (in Brugge and Natolin) at Oxford University, and at the Universities of Bonn and Zurich. His fields of research include EU foreign, economic, and security policy; transatlantic relations; German foreign, economic, and security policy; and international political economy. He is a frequent commentator on international affairs for German and international media.
Dr. Fröhlich was Director of the postgraduate European Studies Program at the Center for European Integration Studies in Bonn from 1998 to 2002 and spent time in Washington, DC, as a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Transatlantic Relations at Johns Hopkins (2002-03); the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (2007); and the German Marshall Fund’s Transatlantic Academy (2016-17).
He is a board member of the German Atlantic Council (Berlin), Center for European Integration Studies (Bonn), German Council on Foreign Relations (Berlin), German Society for Political Science, Association for European Integration (Berlin), and the Institute for European Politics (Berlin). He is the author of numerous books and more than 200 articles on German and European foreign policy and transatlantic relations.
He studied Political Science, Economics, as well as American and Spanish Literature in Bonn, Paris, and Washington (MA 1985; Ph.D. 1989; “Habilitation” (Dr.phil.habil.) 1996).
