Frans Alphons Maria Alting von Geusau

Frans Alphons Maria Alting of Geusau ( born June 26, 1933, Bilthoven ) is a Dutch jurist and diplomat.

Life

Alting of Geusau had in 1952 received a degree in law at the University of Leiden, which he continued after the completion of his military service as an artillery officer in the Dutch army, 1955. To this end, he went in 1958 to the College of Europe in Bruges, where he completed studies for a year to European law. He then became an assistant at Ernst B. Haas at the University of California in 1960 and returned back to the Netherlands. Here he received his doctorate in Leiden in 1962 with the theme European Organisations and Foreign Relations of States. A comparative analysis of decision -making ( freely translated German: European organizations and external relations of states A comparative analysis of decision-making. ).

In 1963 he was the founding director of the Dutch youth volunteers program ( Jongeren Vrijwilligers Programma ). In 1964 he became a member of the permanent study group on European center of the Carnegie Foundation in Geneva, where he remained until 1971. In 1965 he became a professor of international law at the University of Tilburg, which task he held until his retirement in 1998. Here he had in 1967 the management of the Centre for International Studies at John F. Kennedy assumed Institute, which developed under his direction to 1987, a prestigious international body. 1985 he was given a special professorship of law at the University of Leiden, where he lectured on the topic of Western cooperation after the Second World War. This chair he resigned in 1995 because he already in 1994 at the University of Notre Dame held a chair for research of Western institutions at the local Phoenix Institute.

Since 2008, he has as Visiting Professor of International Relations European and international education program at the University of Leiden. He was also a visiting professor at MIT, Harvard University, at the University of Cambridge and at the University of Michigan. As a guest lecturer, he also worked at the Rockefeller Center in Bellagio, at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the Center for International Relations at Harvard University. He was from 1985 to 1997 Member of the Scientific Council of the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna and took in that capacity at Castel Gandolfo in talks with John Paul II in part.

The Dutch government, he served from 1965 to 1998 as a member of the advisory committee of international law, it was in this capacity from 1973 to 1975 member of the delegations to the United Nations General Assembly and entered 1967, the Consultative Committee for Disarmament and International Security at whose he was chairman from 1976 to 1984. He participated in the founding of the Dutch organization for international assistance, was established in 1973 Chairman of the Scientific Committee of the European Cultural Foundation and was from 1984 to 1992 as Vice President. He has also participated in the Catholic charity Aid to the 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 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 of Geusau. 1998
  • Cultural Diplomacy: waging was 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
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