Stephan Frühling, MS (MSU), Dipl.-VW (Kiel), PhD (ANU)
Lecturer, Graduate Studies in Strategy and Defence

Email: stephan.fruehling@anu.edu.au

Biographical Statement

Dr Stephan Frühling is a Lecturer in SDSC's Graduate Studies in Strategy and Defence Program and managing editor of the journal Security Challenges. He received a PhD in Strategic Studies from the ANU, working on defence planning concepts. He also received a Master of Science in Defense & Strategic Studies from Missouri State University, and studied Economics at the Sorbonne in Paris and Christian Albrechts Universität in Kiel. Topics of his publications include Australian defence planning, ballistic missile defence, nuclear deterrence, counterproliferation, and the nature of strategy.

Research Interests

Australian defence planning, missile defence and nuclear strategy, strategic theory.

Key Publications

• 'Golden Window of Opportunity: A New Maritime Strategy and Force Structure for the Australian Navy', Security Challenges, vol. 4, no. 2 (Winter 2008), pp. 81-104.
• 'A New Defence White Paper: Moving On From the Five Circles?' Security Challenges, vol. 3, no.4 (November 2007), pp. 95-112.
• 'Balancing Australia's Strategic Commitments,' Security Challenges, vol. 3, no.3 (August 2007), pp. 145-159.
• (with Svenja Sinjen), 'Missile Defense: Putin & European Security', www.worldsecuritynetwork.org, 5 July 2007.
• (with Svenja Sinjen), 'US Raketenabwehr und die NATO', Strategie und Technik (formerly Soldat und Technik) (May 2007), pp. 56-57.
• 'A Theoretical Perspective on Counterproliferation,' in American National Security: Essays in Honor of William R. Van Cleave, ed. Bradley A. Thayer (Fairfax, VA: National Institute Press, 2007), pp. 74-81.
• (with Svenja Sinjen), 'Raketenabwehr, NATO, und die Verteidigung Europas'. Analysen und Argumente, no. 40 (Berlin: Konrad Adenauer Foundation, 2007).
• (with Svenja Sinjen), 'NATO Missile Defence: The Political and Operational Case for a Two-Base Structure,' RUSI Journal, vol. 151, no. 6 (December 2006), pp. 58-61.
• 'Uncertainty, Forecasting, and the Difficulty of Strategy,' Comparative Strategy, vol. 25, no. 1 (January-March 2006), pp. 19-32.
• '"Bunker-Busters" and Intra-War Deterrence: A Case for Caution and Two Solutions,' Comparative Strategy, vol. 24, no. 4 (October-November 2005), pp. 327-341.
• Ballistic Missile Defence for Australia: Policies, Requirements and Options. Canberra Paper, no. 151 (Canberra: Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University, 2003).

Career Highlights