Stephen Francis Szabo is an American political scientist and educator who specializes in foreign policy. He was executive director of theGerman Marshall Fund Transatlantic Academy and a faculty member atJohns Hopkins University and theNational Defense University.

Szabo received a BA and MA from the School of International Service at theAmerican University, and his PhD fromGeorgetown University in political science.^[1] He completed his PhD in 1977, with a dissertation titledParty Recruitment in the Federal Republic of Germany: Candidate Selection in a West German state.^[2]

Szabo is a political scientist and educator specialized inforeign policy.^[1] In 2011, he was executive director of the Transatlantic Academy (TAA), as part of theGerman Marshall Fund (GMF). Before joining the GMF, Szabo had been professor of European Studies at thePaul 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 theNational Defense University and chairman of West European Studies at theForeign Service Institute, U.S. Department of State.^[3]

• Germany, Russia, and the Rise of Geo-economics (2015) London [etc.] : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.^[4]
• 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^[5][6][7]
• Research Support for Political Scientists: A Guide to Sources of Funds for Research Fellowships, Grants, and Contracts.^[8]
• 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.^[9][10]
• The Changing Politics of German Security (1990) London : Pinter, 1990.^[11]

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