Wolfgang Danspeckgruber is the founding director of the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination, LISD, 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, LCM, an international private diplomacy forum. From 2008 to 2010 during Austria's membership in the United Nations Security Council he served as adviser to the Permanent Mission of Austria to the United Nations. He also has advised the Permanent Mission of the Principality of Liechtenstein to the United Nations. Danspeckgruber researches, writes and teaches on security, strategic, and state building issues in the Caucasus, Central Asia, West South Asia, and the wider Middle East; on theory and practice of international diplomacy, private, and crisis diplomacy; the International Criminal Court; and issues concerning religion and diplomacy. Since 2001 he has undertaken research missions in Afghanistan, China, Egypt, Georgia, India (Kashmir), Israel, Oman, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and has been involved in related private diplomacy. Danspeckgruber was educated at the Universities of Linz and Vienna, Austria, (LL.M.; D.Laws) and at the Graduate Institute of International Studies, University of Geneva, Switzerland (Ph.D.). Danspeckgruber was a visiting scholar at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and held 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. His recent books include “Robert Gilpin & International Relations – Reflections.”