Stephan Fruehling

Dr Stephan Frühling is the Associate Dean (Education) of the College of Asia and the Pacific, and Associate Professor in the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre of the Coral Bell School of Asia-Pacific Affairs. He has widely published on Australian defence policy, nuclear weapons and missile defence, NATO and strategic theory.

Stephan is a Chief Investigator on the Australian Research Council’s Discovery Project on Small Allies and Extended Nuclear Deterrence. From September 2017 to January 2018, he is working at Georgetown University as the 2017 Fulbright Professional Scholar in Australia-America Alliance Studies.

From August to December 2015, he was the 'Partner across the globe' research fellow in the Research Division of the NATO Defense College in Rome. In 2014-2015, Stephan was a member of the Australian Government’s external panel of experts on the 2016 Defence White Paper.

His previous positions include Deputy Director (Education) of the Bell School (January-July 2016), inaugural Director of Studies (October 2011-June 2012) and Deputy Director of Studies (July-December 2013) of the ANU Master in Military Studies program at the Australian Defence Force’s Australian Command and Staff College, and Managing Editor of the journal Security Challenges (2006 to 2014).