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Wolfgang F. Danspeckgruber, D.Laws, Ph.D.
LISD Director

Wolfgang Danspeckgruber is the Founding Director of the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination at Princeton University and has been teaching on issues of state, security, self-determination, diplomacy, and crisis diplomacy at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Department of Politics since 1988. He is also founder and chair of the Liechtenstein Colloquium on European and International Affairs, a private diplomacy forum in Liechtenstein. 2006 during Austria’s Presidency of the European Union he served as academic advisor to the Permanent Mission of Austria to the United Nations. He now works also on security problems in Afghanistan, Iran, and Central Asia; on the International Criminal Court; and on issues concerning Religion and Diplomacy. Since 2001 he has visited Afghanistan, China, India (Kashmir), Israel, Oman, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Uzbekistan, and has been involved in related private diplomacy. Prior to this, Danspeckgruber was involved in private diplomacy in Southeastern Europe and the Caucasus, and has also worked with the Ahtisaari Team and the EU Special Representative on the status of Kosovo. He conducted fact-finding missions to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Hungary, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Slovenia, and Yugoslavia/Serbia.

Danspeckgruber was educated at the Universities of Linz and Vienna, Austria, (M.L; D.Laws) and the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, Switzerland (Ph.D.). Following his Austrian military service (Lieutenant, Reserve) he served as special assistant to the Commander of the Austrian National Defense Academy. Danspeckgruber was a visiting scholar at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and held research fellowships at the Center of Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and at Princeton's Center of International Studies.

Danspeckgruber’s books include Building State and Security in Afghanistan (edited with Robert P. Finn); Self-Determination of Peoples: Communities, Nations, and States in Global Interdependence; The Iraqi Aggression against Kuwait (edited with Charles R.H. Tripp);  and Emerging Dimensions of European Security Policy. He is the editor of the LISD/WWS Study Series, and the Princeton Encyclopedia of Self-Determination.

Telephone 609.258.5685
Facsimile 609.258.5196
wfd@princeton.edu

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