Teaching & Research

Research focuses

Research focuses are:

• Transatlantic Relations
• German and European foreign and security policy
• American foreign and security policy
• International Political Economy

Transatlantic relations

The transatlantic partnership between Europe and the USA is one of the most important components for european and german foreign policy. Based on shared values and interests the transatlantic relations resulted in high social, political and economic integration.

The professorship for International Relations and Political Economy is concerned with the historical and prospective evolution of the transatlatic relations and possible challenges.

Publications of the chair related to transatlantic relations:

• Fröhlich, Stefan (2012): The New Geopolitics of Transatlantic Relations Baltimore (MD): Johns Hopkins University Press

• Fröhlich, Stefan (2016):Partners and Competitors – The US and the EU in: Murray, Donette/ Brown, David (Hrsg.): Global Power Relations in the 21st Century – Mapping a multipolar world, London: Routledge

• Fröhlich, Stefan (2017): Die transatlantischen Beziehungen in: Jäger, Thomas (Hrsg.): Die Außenpolitik der USA – Studienbücher Außenpolitik und Internationale Beziehungen, Wiesbaden: Springer VS

During the winter semester 2016/17 Prof. Dr. Stefan Fröhlich participated at the „Transatlantic Academy“ in Washington D.C. to research about “Germany and the United States in the 21st Century”. From september 2016 till may 2017 he was Senior Fellow of the German Marshall Fund and published the following articels:

• Germany Cannot Replace the US, But Europe Can Live with Trump
• Berlin’s New Pragmatism in an Era of Radical Uncertainty
• Berlin’s New Pragmatism. Will It Be Enough After Trump’s Election?
• Abschlussbericht:  Suspicious Minds. U.S.-German Relations in the Trump Era

German and european foreign- and security policy

Confronted by different crises in society, economy and politics Germany`s foreign policy ist heavily challenged. Most of these challenges are managed via the European Union.

The professorship for International Relations and Political Economy analyses the essential dimensions and tools of german and european foreign policy and the german role within the European Union and the global order.

American foreign- and security policy

Because of their military and economic power and global integration as well as their cultural attractiveness the foreign policy of the USA are extremly important for the International Relations.

The professorship for International Relations and Political Economy in Erlangen researches the foreign policy of the United States from a theoretical and historical perspectiv. Also policy and regional specifics are analysed.

Publications of the chair related to Thema american foreign- and security policy:

• Fröhlich, Stefan (2014): Leitlinien der US-amerikanischen Außenpolitik in: Lammert, Christian et al. (Hrsg.): Handbuch Politik USA, Wiesbaden: Springer VS
• Fröhlich, Stefan (2012): Zur künftigen Rolle und Stellung der USA in der Welt in: Clouet, Louis-Marie et al. (Hrsg.): Europa und die Welt 2020 – Entwicklungen und Tendenzen,    Baden-Baden: Nomos
• Fröhlich, Stefan/Loewen Howard (2017) (Hrsg):The Changing East Asian Security Landscape – Challenges, Actors and Governance Wiesbaden: Springer VS

Courses in the coming winter semester 2020/2021:

• Lecture: Grundlagen der internationalen Politik I: Geschichte und Theorien der internationalen Beziehungen
• Main-Seminar: The EU and other Global Players
• Mastermodul: Großmächte, Hegemonie, Weltordnung (mit Dr. Johannes Jüde)

More information around the courses can be found at Univis:

Courses by Prof. Fröhlich

Courses by Dr. Jüde

Courses of the chair for International Relations and Political Economy

Guestlectorships by Prof. Dr. Stefan Fröhlich

since 1999

• Antwerpen, Brügge, Budapest, Bonn (ZEI), Mailand, Birmingham, London, Wien, Tübingen, Washington,  Moskau

2002-2003

• Gastprofessor am Center for Transatlantic Relations, Johns Hopkins-University, Washington D.C

2019

• Otago University (Neuseeland)

current

• Collège d`Europe Brügge, Natolin (Warschau), Zentrum für Europäische Integrationsforschung Bonn, Universität Zürich