America Presents

The American Embassy is pleased to announce that Professor Stephen F. Szabo will be the speaker for our American Thursday program, to be held on February 24 at 3:00 P.M. Professor Szabo will discuss transatlantic relations after the US election.

Stephen F. Szabo is Professor of European Studies at The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, of Johns Hopkins University. He holds the Steven Muller Chair in German Studies at Johns Hopkins’s Bologna Center during the current academic year. He teaches in the areas of European security, transatlantic relations, and European politics and leadership, with a specialization in contemporary Germany. He was a Bosch Public Policy Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin in the fall of 2002, where he conducted research for his recently published book, Parting Ways: The Crisis in German-American Relations (The Brookings Institution: 2004).

Prior to joining Johns Hopkins, he was Professor of National Security Affairs at the National War College from 1982 to 1990. From 1979 to1982 he served as Chairman of Western European Studies at the U.S. Department of State’s Foreign Service Institute. He has also taught in the University of Virginia, George Washington University, and Georgetown University. He received his PhD in Political Science from Georgetown University.

Other publications include The Successor Generation: International Perspectives of Postwar Europeans (London: Butterworth, 1983), The Bundeswehr and Western Security (London: MacMillan, 1989), The Changing Politics of German Security (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1990) and The Diplomacy of German Unification (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1992).