Frank A. Stengel is a political sociologist concerned with German security policy, populism, and political and sociological theory. He currently works as a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Kiel University, Germany.
Dr. Stengel’s first book The Politics of Military Force (University of Michigan Press, 2020) examines post-unification German security policy from the perspective of the poststructuralist discourse theory of the Essex School and was included among the Süddeutsche Zeitung‘s “Books of the Year 2022“. The book is based on Dr. Stengel’s doctoral dissertation, which was awarded the European International Studies Association’s Best Dissertation Award in 2018. He is also the co-editor of Populism and World Politics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, with David B. MacDonald and Dirk Nabers), which explores the inter- and transnational dimensions of populism. A revised second edition will be coming out in 2025.
Dr. Stengel received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Bremen/Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences. Prior to joining Kiel University, he worked as a Research Officer for the Institutional Strategy at the University of Bremen, and during the 2019-2020 academic year, he was a DAAD Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC.