Frans Alphons Maria Alting von Geusau

Frans Alphons Maria Alting von Geusau (1969)

Frans Alphons Maria Alting von Geusau (born June 26, 1933 in Bilthoven ) is a Dutch legal scholar and diplomat .

Life

Alting von Geusau began studying law at the University of Leiden in 1952 , which he continued in 1955 after completing his military service as an artillery officer in the Dutch army. For this purpose he went to the College of Europe in Bruges in 1958 , where he completed a year of studies in European law. He then became an assistant to Ernst B. Haas at the University of California and returned to the Netherlands in 1960. Here he received his doctorate in Leiden in 1962 on the subject of European Organizations and Foreign Relations of States. A comparative analysis of decision-making (freely translated into German: European organizations and foreign relations of states. A comparative analysis of decision-making).

In 1963 he was the founding director of the Dutch Youth Volunteer Program ( Jongeren Vrijwilligers Programma ). In 1964 he became a member of the permanent study group at the European Center of the Carnegie Foundation in Geneva , of which he was a member until 1971. In 1965 he became professor for international law at the University of Tilburg , which he held until his retirement in 1998. Here he took over the management of the Center for International Studies at the John F. Kennedy Institute in 1967, which under his direction developed into a respected international institution by 1987. In 1985 he was given a special endowed professorship for law at the University of Leiden , where he lectured on the subject of Western cooperation after the Second World War . He resigned this chair in 1995, as he had already held a chair for research into western institutions at the Phoenix Institute there in 1994 at the University of Notre Dame .

Since 2008 he has been in charge of the European and international training program at the University of Leiden as visiting professor for international relations. He was also visiting professor at MIT , Harvard University , the University of Cambridge and the University of Michigan . He has also served as visiting professor at the Rockefeller Center , Bellagio , the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and the Center for International Relations at Harvard University. From 1985 to 1997 he was a member of the Scientific Council of the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna and, in this capacity, took part in talks with John Paul II at Castel Gandolfo .

He served the Dutch government from 1965 to 1998 as a member of the Advisory Commission on International Law, in this capacity he was a member of the delegations to the General Assembly of the United Nations from 1973 to 1975 and in 1967 he joined the Advisory Commission on Disarmament and International Security He was chairman from 1976 to 1984. He participated in the founding of the Dutch Organization for International Administrative Assistance, became Chairman of the Scientific Committee of the European Cultural Foundation in 1973 and was its Vice-President from 1984 to 1992. He also participated in the Catholic aid organization Church in Need , where he worked in the service of charity as vice-president and chairman of a project group until 2008.

Works (selection)

• Economic relations after the Kennedy Round. 1969
• The Lome convention and a new international economic order. 1969
• The Future of the International Monetary System. 1970
• European perspectives on world order. 1975
• Uncertain détente. 1979
• The Pacific Rim and the Western world: strategic, economic, and cultural perspectives. 1987
• Beyond containment and division: Western cooperation from a post-totalitarian perspective. 1992
• Realism and moralism in international relations: essays in honor of Frans AM Alting von Geusau. 1998
• Cultural Diplomacy: waging war by other means? 2009
• The Illusions of Détente. 2009
• Western Cooperation. Origins and History. 2009
• European Unification into the Twenty First Century: Fading, Failing, Fragile? 2012

literature

• H. Beukers: Album Scholasticum academiae lugduno-batavae MCMLXXV-MCMLXXXIX. (1975-1989), Leids University Fund, Leiden, 1991

Web link

• Website with a portrait