Frank A. Stengel
Non-Resident Fellows
Frank A. Stengel is a non-resident fellow at the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) in Berlin, where he focuses on peace and security and rights and democracy. He is also a Senior Lecturer in sociology at Kiel University. His current research examines knowledge production in German peace and security policy, personalistic rule under Trump 2.0 and Trumpism as a social movement. His research interests include (international) political sociology, populism, German foreign policy, and IR and sociological theory.
Frank’s recent work focuses on German pacifism, post-Zeitenwende German security policy, feminist foreign policy (FFP), and left-wing populism. He is the author of The Politics of Military Force (University of Michigan Press, 2020), co-author of the sixth edition of Gert Krell and Peter Schlotter’s introductory text on IR theory Weltbilder und Weltordnung: Einführung in die Theorie der Internationalen Beziehungen (Nomos, 2026), and co-editor of Populism and World Politics (Palgrave Macmillan, second edition 2025).
Previously, Frank was a DAAD Post-Doctoral Fellow at the John Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC, and a research officer at the University of Bremen, where he worked on applying for and implementing the university’s institutional strategy within the “German Excellence Initiative.”
Frank holds a PhD from the University of Bremen, a master’s in International Relations from the University of Essex and a Diplom (equivalent to a master’s degree) in political science from the University of Hamburg. He has received scholarships from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences.