Stefan H. Fritsch, Ph.D.

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Fritsch’s research focuses on issues of international relations, international political economy and comparative politics. He is particularly interested in the relationship between technology and international affairs, the political economy of technological innovation, global trade issues, globalization, theories of International Political Economy, Multinational Corporations, and European integration. In 2012-13 and 2016-17 he served as Resident Director for BGSU’s Academic Year Abroad Program in Austria (Salzburg).

Recent Articles:

• Stefan Fritsch (2024) “The Economics of International Communication”. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies, edited by Nukhet Sandal. Oxford: Oxford University Press (completely revised version of the 2019 chapter).
  
• Stefan Fritsch (2023) “Adam Smith, Just Commercial Society, and Corporate Social Responsibility.” Review of International Political Vol. 30, no. 4, pp. 1582-1604.
• Stefan Fritsch (2021) “21^st Century Developments in the Field of Science and Technology Studies and International Relations”. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies, edited by Nukhet Sandal. Oxford: Oxford University Press.    
  
• Stefan Fritsch (forthcoming) “21^st Century Developments in the Field of Science and Technology Studies and International Relations”. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies, edited by Nukhet Sandal. Oxford: Oxford University Press.  
  
• Stefan Fritsch and Yale H. Ferguson (2019), “Postinternationalism, Technology and the Change-Continuity Nexus in International Relations: Interview with Yale H. Ferguson”. The Technologies of IR: Continuity and Change, edited by Carolin Kaltofen, Madeline Carr and Michele Acuto, 107-114. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan.
• Stefan Fritsch (2019), “The Economics of International Communication”. The International Studies Encyclopedia, edited by Robert Denemark and Renee Marlin-Bennett. Oxford: Oxford University Press (completely revised and updated version of the 2010 compendium chapter).
• Stefan Fritsch (2017), “Technology, Conflict and International Relations”. Advancing Interdisciplinary Approaches to International Relations, edited by Steve Yetiv and Patrick James, pp. 115-151. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan.
• Stefan Fritsch (2016) “IBM”, in Scribner’s Dictionary of American History, Supplement: America in the World, 1776 to the Present, edited by Edward J. Blum, Cara Burnidge, Emily Conroy-Krutz, and David Kinkela, pp. 505-506. Farmington Hills, MI: Charles Scribner’s Son.
• Stefan Fritsch (2016) “Multinational Corporations”, in Scribner’s Dictionary of American History, Supplement: America in the World, 1776 to the Present, edited by Edward J. Blum, Cara Burnidge, Emily Conroy-Krutz, and David Kinkela, pp. 707-708. Farmington Hills, MI: Charles Scribner’s Son.
• Stefan Fritsch (2015) “Technological Innovation, Globalization, and Varieties of Capitalism: The Contingent Institutional Adaptation of Siemens AG.” Business and Politics Vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 125-159.
• Stefan Fritsch (2014) “Conceptualizing the Ambivalent Role of Technology in International Relations: Between Systemic Change and Continuity”. International Relations and the Global Politics of Science and Technology, edited by Maximilian Mayer, Mariana Carpes and Ruth Knoblich. Heidelberg: Springer Verlag, 115-138.
• Stefan Fritsch (2014) “One Cup at a Time? (Fair Trade) Coffee, Migration and Globalization: Review of Daniel R. Reichman (2011) The Broken Village: Coffee, Migration, and Globalization in Honduras (Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press) and Sarah Lyon (2011) Coffee and Community: Maya Farmers and Fair-Trade Markets (Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado).” International Studies Review 16: 307-310.  
• Stefan Fritsch (2011) “Technology and Global Affairs.” International Studies Perspectives Vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 27-45.
• Stefan Fritsch (2011) “International Political Economy and Trade” in 21st Century Political Science: A Reference Handbook, edited by John Ishiyama and Marijke Breuning London: SAGE, pp. 407-413.
• Stefan Fritsch (2010) “Fair Trade: Humanizing Globalization and Reintroducing the Normative to International Political Economy.” Review of International Political Economy Vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 103-128. (with Candace Archer)
• Stefan Fritsch (2010) “Economics of International Communication” in The International Studies Encyclopedia, edited by Robert Denemark. London: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 1301-1319.
• Stefan Fritsch (2008) “The UN Global Compact and the Global Governance of Corporate Social Responsibility: Complex Multilateralism for a More Human Globalisation?” In Global Society: Journal of Interdisciplinary International Relations Vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 1-26.
• Stefan Fritsch (2007) “The EU’s Foreign Trade Policy in the Doha Trade Round: Janus-Faced Between Selective Protectionism and Global Liberalisation,” in EU and Russia: Face To Face – Materials of an International Conference, edited by Larisa Deriglazova, Anselm Skuhra and Stefan Fritsch. Tomsk: Tomsk State University Publishing House, pp. 160-185.
• Stefan Fritsch (2006) Technology and International Political Economy in the Information Age. Baden-Baden: Nomos. (in German)
• Stefan Fritsch (2005) “Technology as Source of Systemic Transformations: Implications for Theoretical Discussions in International Relations.” In Austrian Journal of Political Science (ÖZP) Vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 133-146. (in German)