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Curt Gasteyger Honorary Professor, International Relations, Political Science, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement), Geneva

PROFILE Born in Zurich 20.03.1929. Studies: Zurich University (Dr. iur.1954); College of Europe, Bruges/Belgium (1954/55); Free University of Berlin (1955/56). •	Research activities : Council on Foreign Relations (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik), Francfort (1956-59). International Commission of Jurists, Geneva (1959-61). Director of Studies, [International] Institute for Strategic Studies, London (1964-68). Deputy Director, Atlantic Institute, Paris (1968-74). • 	Professor at the Graduate Institute of International Studies,  Geneva, 1974-94,  and founder-director of its Programme for Strategic and International Security Studies (PSIS)  1980- 99,  as well as of the Association for the Promotion and Study of International Security (APESI), 1999-2009. • 	Studies and teaching abroad: Universities of Carleton (Ottawa), Columbia (New York), Harvard (Cambridge/Mass.) as well as in Florence and Vienna. •	Honorary Professor, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, since 1994. •	Festschrift in his honour on the occasion of his 65th anniversary: Theodor Winkler / Peter Ziegler (Ed.):  The World of Tomorrow / Die Welt von morgen / Le Monde de demain Berne  -  Stuttgart -  Vienna, 1994. • 	Curt Gasteyger was an active participant in many expert committees, including the UN Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters (1993-98) and the Volcker Commission, established to investigate the many dormant accounts opened by Jews fleeing Nazi persecution in Swiss Banks (1996-99). • 	Honours: Grand Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (Grosses Bundesverdienstkreuz), 2003. • 	In 2005, the Graduate Institute, Geneva, created, in his honour, the Curt Gasteyger Chair in International Security and Conflict Studies.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE •	Strategy and security in the nuclear age -	New sources of conflict -	Disarmament and arms control

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS •	Doctoral thesis on the principles of the European federation (title: Die politische Homogenität als Faktor der Föderation. Unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der europäischen Einigungsbestrebungen), Berlin, 1954. •	Die feindlichen Brüder. Jugoslawiens neuer Konflikt mit dem Ostblock, Berne, 1960. •	Die beiden deutschen Staaten in der Weltpolitik, Munich, 1977. •	Searching for World Security : Understanding Global Armament and 			Disarmament, London, 1985 (Tokyo, 1988) ; French edition: Les Défis de 		la  paix. Un monde à la recherche de sa sécurité, Genève /Paris, 1986. •	An Ambiguous Power. The European Union in a Changing World, Gütersloh, 1996-97.                                                                                                        •	Security in the 21st Century. Trends and Perspectives, PSIS Occasional Paper no. 1/1999. •	Europa zwischen Spaltung und Einigung, Darstellung und Dokumentation 1945-2005, 	Bonn, 2005. •	Europe from Division to Unification. A documented overview 1945-2006, Bonn,  	2006. •	Global Security in Perspective: The Comeback of Eurasia and the Changing 		Role of Military Power, Geneva Center for the Democratic Control of Armed 		Forces (DCAF), Policy Paper No.13, Geneva, April 2006. •	Neue Dimensionen internationaler Sicherheit (in preparation).

Editor: •	(with Louis Camu and Jack N. Behrman): Energy, Inflation and International Economic Relations. Atlantic Institute Studies II, New York, 1974, 1975. •          The Future of European Energy Security, London, 1985. Numerous articles, i.a. in: •	Neue Zürcher Zeitung (since 1948); Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung; Die 		Zeit; Finanz und Wirtschaft  (front-page articles 1987-2012).

Curt Gasteyger is married and father of two sons.