Projects per year
Personal profile
Research interests
Australian defence policy, nuclear weapons, alliances, NATO, defence planning.
Biography
Professor Stephan Frühling teaches and researches at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre of The Australian National University and has widely published on Australian defence policy, defence planning and strategy, nuclear weapons and NATO.
Stephan was the Fulbright Professional Fellow in Australia-US Alliance Studies at Georgetown University in Washington DC in 2017. He worked as a ‘Partner across the globe’ research fellow in the Research Division of the NATO Defense College in Rome in 2015 and was a member of the Australian Government’s External Panel of Experts on the development of the 2016 Defence White Paper.
Previously, he was the Acting Head of the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre (2022), Associate Dean Partnership and Engagement (2021-2022), Deputy Dean (2020 to 2021), and Associate Dean Education (2016 to 2020) in the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, the inaugural Director of Studies of the ANU Master in Military Studies program at the Australian Defence Force’s Australian Command and Staff College (2011 to 2013), and Managing Editor of the Kokoda Foundation’s journal Security Challenges (2006 to 2014).
Qualifications
PhD (ANU); Master of Arts in Defense and Strategic Studies (Missouri State University); Diploma in International Economics (Christian Albrechts University, Kiel, Germany)
Keywords
- U Military Science (General)
- JZ International relations
Expertise Areas
- Defence Studies
- Australian Government and Politics
- Alliances
- European Security
- NATO
- Nuclear Weapons
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Network (past 5 years)
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History of Strategic Policy since 1976 - IPS & DOD
Commonwealth Department of Defence
21/03/22 → 31/12/24
Project: Research
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Australian Army Research Centre Fellows
Commonwealth Department of Defence, Army
1/10/21 → 30/09/24
Project: Research
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Do the Ties Bind Expectations and Commitments in the Australia-US Alliance (ext led)
Fruehling, S., O'Neil, A. & Dean, P.
Australian Research Council (ARC)
1/01/19 → 26/05/24
Project: Research
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AusCSCAP: DFAT Grant funding
Taylor, B., Fruehling, S., Milner, A. & Smith, R.
Commonwealth Department of Defence
22/01/23 → 30/06/23
Project: Research
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Enhancing Australian industry's comparative advantage to support Defence capability ext-led
Commonwealth Department of Defence
26/05/22 → 30/11/23
Project: Research
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Alliances and Nuclear Risk: Strengthening US Extended Deterrence
Fruehling, S. & O'Neil, A., 2022, In: Survival. 64, 1, p. 77-98Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Australian scholars choose to stand on "the right side of history"
Schmidt, B., Leach, J., Wheeler, S., Fruehling, S., McNaughton, A. & Medcalf, R., 2022, Sydney, AustraliaResearch output: Other contribution
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Multilateralizing Maritime Security in the Indo-Pacific How Europe can contribute to regional deterrence
Fruehling, S., 2022Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
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Alliances, Nuclear Weapons and Escalation: Managing Deterrence in the 21st Century
Fruehling, S. & O'Neil, A., 2021, 1st ed. Canberra: ANU Press. 223 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Australian strategic policy in the global context of the Cold War, 1945–65
Fruehling, S., 2021, Fighting Australia's Cold War: The Nexus of Strategy and Operations in a Multipolar Asia, 1945-1965. Peter Dean and Tristan Moss (ed.). 1st ed. Canberra: ANU Press, p. 11-34Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter