Dr. Stephan Frühling is an Associate Professor in the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre and the Associate Dean (Education) of the College of Asia and the Pacific of the Australian National University. Stephan has widely published on Australian defence policy, defence planning and strategy, nuclear weapons, and NATO. Stephan was the Fulbright Professional Fellow in Australia-US Alliance Studies at Georgetown University in Washington, D, C in 2017. He worked as a ‘Partner across the globe' research fellow in the Research Division of the NATO Defense College in Rome in 2015, and was a member of the Australian Government’s External Panel of Experts on the development of the 2016 Defence White Paper. Previously, he was the inaugural Director of Studies of the ANU Master's in Military Studies program at the Australian Defence Force’s Australian Command and Staff College, where he worked from 2011 to 2013, and Managing Editor of the Kokoda Foundation’s journal Security Challenges from 2006 to 2014.