Stefan Fröhlich (political scientist)

Since 2003 Fröhlich is Full Professor for international relations at the University Erlangen-Nuremberg.

Since 1999 he has been visiting professor in: Antwerp, Bruges, Budapest, Bonn (ZEI), Milan, Birmingham, London, Vienna, Tübingen, Washington and Moscow. Fröhlich has also been abroad for longer research periods at the Center for Transatlantic Relations at Johns Hopkins University in Washington D.C. (2002/03) and at the Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington D.C. (2007). Currently Fröhlich is visiting professor at the Collège d'Europe in Bruges & Natolin, at the Zentrum für Europäische Integrationsforschung (ZEI) in Bonn and at the universities in Innsbruck and Zurich.

From 1979 till 1985 Fröhlich studied political science, English studies, Hispanism and economics in Bonn, Paris, Philadelphia and Washington D.C. Afterwards he worked as research associate for the German Bundestag till 1989 and as 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 till 2002.

Stefan Fröhlich (born 1958 in Bonn, Germany) is a German political scientist and professor for 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.