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

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, 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 A State (polity), state's foreign policy or external policy (as opposed to internal or domestic policy) is its objectives and activities in relation to its interactions with other states, unions, and other political entities, whether bilaterall ...

. In 2011, he was executive director of the Transatlantic Academy (TAA), as part of the German Marshall Fund (GMF). Before joining the GMF, Szabo had been professor of European Studies at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, where he also served as academic and interim dean. Before that, he was professor of National Security Affairs at the National Defense University and chairman of West European Studies at the

Foreign Service Institute The Foreign Service Institute (FSI) is the United States federal government's primary training institution for employees of the U.S. foreign affairs community, preparing American diplomats as well as other professionals to advance U.S. foreig ...

, U.S. Department of State.

Selected publications

* ''Germany, Russia, and the Rise of Geo-economics'' (2015) London tc.: 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.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Szabo, Stephen Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Johns Hopkins University faculty Georgetown University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni American University School of International Service alumni American political scientists National Defense University faculty 21st-century American educators 21st-century American male writers