Stephan Frühling
Professor Stephan Frühling
Qualifications
PhD (ANU), Master of Arts in Strategic Studies (Missouri State University), 'Diplom' in International Economics (Christian Albrechts Univ

Dr Stephan Frühling is a Professor in the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre and Associate Dean (Students and Curriculum) for the College of Asia & the Pacific. He is a Chief Investigator on the Australian Research Council’s Discovery Project on Small Allies and Extended Nuclear Deterrence. He has widely published on Australian defence policy, defence planning and strategy, nuclear weapons and NATO. In 2014-2015, Stephan was a member of the Australian Government’s external panel of experts on the development of the 2016 Defence White Paper. He was the ‘Partner across the globe’ research fellow in the Research Division of the NATO Defense College in Rome in 2015; the inaugural Director of Studies of the ANU Master in Military Studies program at the Australian Defence Force’s Australian War College from October 2011 to June 2012, and the Deputy Director of Studies until the end of 2013. Stephan was Managing Editor of the journal Security Challenges from 2006 to 2014.

Three ARC grant successes for Bell School
This week three of our Bell School researchers have received the wonderful news that they have been successful in winning ARC research funding. We are delighted to congratulate:

Missile defence for Australia? Expensive and probably not wise
Following the most recent tests by North Korea of a missile that might be able to hit Alaska, the prospect of a direct threat to Australia from the Kim regime is exciting the Australian defence deb