Frans Alphons Maria Alting von Geusau


Frans Alphons Maria Alting von Geusau is a Dutch legal scholar and diplomat.
He has a law degree from the University of Leiden and attended the College of Europe 1958-1959. He earned a doctorate in 1962, and founded the Dutch program of youth volunteers the following year.
He was Professor of International Law at the University of Tilburg from 1965 to 1998. He has been a visiting professor at MIT, Harvard University, the University of Cambridge and the University of Michigan.
He was also an advisor on international law and diplomat for the Dutch government. He was Vice President of the European Cultural Foundation from 1984 to 1992, and has been active within Aid to the Church in Need.

Works

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