Stephen Francis Szabo is an American political scientist and educator who specializes in foreign policy. He was executive director of the

German Marshall Fund The German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) is a non-partisan American public policy think tank that seeks to promote cooperation and understanding between North America and the European Union. Founded in 1972, through a gift from the W ...

Transatlantic Academy and a faculty member at

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and the

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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 Georgetown University is a private university, private Jesuit research university in Washington, D.C., United States. Founded by Bishop John Carroll (archbishop of Baltimore), John Carroll in 1789, it is the oldest Catholic higher education, Ca ...

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 Foreign policy, also known as external policy, is the set of strategies and actions a State (polity), state employs in its interactions with other states, unions, and international entities. It encompasses a wide range of objectives, includ ...

. In 2011, he was executive director of the Transatlantic Academy (TAA), as part of the

(GMF). Before joining the GMF, Szabo had been professor of European Studies at the

Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies The School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) is a graduate school of Johns Hopkins University based in Washington, D.C. The school also maintains campuses in Bologna, Italy and Nanjing, China. The school is devoted to the study of int ...

, where he also served as academic and interim dean. Before that, he was professor of National Security Affairs at the

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 members of the U.S. foreign service community, preparing American diplomats as well as other professionals to advance U.S. foreign ...

, U.S. Department of State.

Selected publications

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

tc. TC, T.C., Tc, Tc, tc, tC, or .tc may refer to: Arts and entertainment Film and television * Theodore "T.C." Calvin, a character on the TV series '' Magnum, P.I.'' and its reboot * Tom Caron, American television host for New England Sports Netw ...

: 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 & 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