Hanspeter Neuhold

Hanspeter Neuhold

  • Professor of International Law and International Relations, University of Vienna
  • Director of the postgraduate Master of Advanced International Studies (M.A.I.S.) program, University of Vienna and Diplomatic Academy
  • Visiting professor at the College of Europe, Bruges

Doctorate of law, University of Vienna (1965), Diplôme de l`Institut des hautes études internationales, Paris University (1967). Professor of International Law and International Relations, University of Vienna (since 1980). Department of Political Science, Stanford University (1988), former Director of the Austrian Institute for International Affairs (1988 - 1996), former head of the Department of Public International Law (1996-2000), Vice-President of the German Society of International Law (1997-2001); Founding member of the European Society of International Law (ESIL) (2004).


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Research focus

  • Theoretical issues of international law
  • Force and law in international relations
  • International security - political and legal aspects
  • Legal and political aspects of the Balkan conflicts
  • The development of the CFSP and CESDP
  • Transatlantic relations
  • Austrian foreign and security policy

 

Major Recent Publications


Editor (together with Waldemar Hummer and Christoph Schreuer), Österreichisches Handbuch des Völkerrechts (fourth edition, Vienna 2004).

L´Union Européenne en tant qu´acteur sécuritaire: quelle sécurité? Quelques réflexions sur les aspects juridiques de l´inflation terminologique, in: Société Française pour le Droit International (ed.), Les métamorphoses de la sécurité collective : droit, pratique et enjeux stratégiques (Paris 2005), pp. 255-263.

International Terrorism: Definitions, Challenges and Responses, in: Dieter Mahncke und Jörg Monar (eds.), International Terrorism - A European Response to a Global Threat? (Brussels 2006) pp. 23-46.

Human Rights and the Use of Force, in: Stephan Breitenmoser/Bernhard Ehrenzeller/Marco Sassòli/Walter Stoffel/Beatrice Wagner Pfeifer (eds.), Liber amicorum Luzius Wildhaber (Zürich/St. Gallen/Baden-Baden 2007) pp. 479-498.

The United Nations as a Security Organization: The „Balkan Laboratory“, in: Christoph Benicke/Walter Gropp/Thilo Marauhn (eds.), S/A/I/L – Studies in Applied International Law. Discussion Paper no. 3 (Gießen 2007), pp. 3 – 46.

Legitimacy: A Problem in International Law and for International Lawyers? in: Rüdiger Wolfrum/Volker Röben (eds.), Legitimacy in International Law (Heidelberg 2008), pp. 335 – 351.

The International Community and "Rogue States", in: Andreas Fischer-Lescano/Hans-Peter Gasser/Thilo Marauhn/Natalino Ronzitti (eds.), Frieden in Freiheit: Festschrift für Michael Bothe zum 70. Geburtstag (Baden-Baden 2008), pp. 215 – 235.

Variations on the Theme of “Soft International Law“, in I. Buffard/J. Crawford/A. Pellet/S. Wittich (eds.), International Law between Universalism and Fragmentation. Festschrift in Honour of Gerhard Hafner, (Leiden 2008), pp. 343 - 360.

The European Union at the Crossroads: Three Major Challenges, in: Peter Fischer/Margit Maria Karollus/Sigmar Stadlmeier (eds.), Die Welt im Spannungsfeld zwischen Regionalisierung und Globalisierung. Festschrift für Heribert Franz Köck (Vienna, 2009), pp. 253-271.

Common Security: The Litmus Test of International Solidarity in: Rüdiger Wolfrum/C. Kojima(eds.), Solidarity: A Structural Principle of International Law, Beiträge zum ausländischen öffentlichen Recht und Völkerrecht 213 (Berlin 2010), pp. 193-223.

Hanspeter Neuhold, The Law of International Conflict: Force, Intervention and Peaceful Dispute Settlement, Leiden, Netherlands; Boston, Massachusetts, Brill Nijhoff (2016).


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