Hans-Adam II is the Prince of Liechtenstein. He is the son of Prince Franz Joseph II and his wife,Countess Georgina von Wilczek. He also bears the titles Duke of Troppau and Jägerndorf,and Count of Rietberg. Under his reign,a 2003 constitutional referendum expanded the powers of the Prince of Liechtenstein. In 2004,Hans-Adam transferred day-to-day governmental duties to his eldest son Hereditary Prince Alois as regent,like his father had granted him in 1984 to prepare him for the role.
Robert Patrick John Finn is an American scholar of Turkish Studies and International Relations,and was the first United States ambassador to Afghanistan in more than 20 years,from March 22,2002,until August 1,2004. He was succeeded by Zalmay Khalilzad.
The Princeton School of Public and International Affairs is a professional public policy school at Princeton University. The school provides an array of comprehensive coursework in the fields of international development,foreign policy,science and technology,and economics and finance through its undergraduate (AB) degrees,graduate Master of Public Affairs (MPA),Master of Public Policy (MPP),and PhD degrees.
Friedrich Kratochwil is a German university professor who studied at the University of Munich before migrating to the United States,then subsequently returning to Europe. He received a PhD from Princeton University.
Critical international relations theory is a diverse set of schools of thought in international relations (IR) that have criticized the theoretical,meta-theoretical and/or political status quo,both in IR theory and in international politics more broadly –from positivist as well as postpositivist positions. Positivist critiques include Marxist and neo-Marxist approaches and certain ("conventional") strands of social constructivism. Postpositivist critiques include poststructuralist,postcolonial,"critical" constructivist,critical theory,neo-Gramscian,most feminist,and some English School approaches,as well as non-Weberian historical sociology,"international political sociology","critical geopolitics",and the so-called "new materialism". All of these latter approaches differ from both realism and liberalism in their epistemological and ontological premises.
Wilsonianism,or Wilsonian idealism,is a certain type of foreign policy advice. The term comes from the ideas and proposals of President Woodrow Wilson. He issued his famous Fourteen Points in January 1918 as a basis for ending World War I and promoting world peace. He was a leading advocate of the League of Nations to enable the international community to avoid wars and end hostile aggression. Wilsonianism is a form of liberal internationalism.
Robert Gilpin was an American political scientist. He was Professor of Politics and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University where he held the Eisenhower professorship.
Ole Wæver is a professor of international relations at the Department of Political Science,University of Copenhagen. He has published extensively in the field of international relations,and is one of the main architects of the Copenhagen School in International Relations.
David Cortright is an American scholar and peace activist. He is a Vietnam veteran who is currently Professor Emeritus and special adviser for policy studies at the Keough School of Global Affairs and Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame,and the author,co-author,editor or co-editor of 22 books. Cortright has a long history of public advocacy for disarmament and the prevention of war.
Sir Arthur Watts,KCMG,QC was an international lawyer,diplomat and arbitrator. He was employed as a legal adviser at the Foreign Office between 1956 and 1991 being appointed the Chief Legal Adviser to the Foreign Office from 1987 to 1991.
William M. LeoGrande is a professor of government and former dean of the American University School of Public Affairs. He is an expert on Latin America.
Guerrilla diplomacy is a method of diplomacy that is identified as an alternative approach to the established common frameworks of international relations,being primarily articulated by Daryl Copeland in response to the foreign policy outcomes of the War on Terror. In a sense,the responses to the major events of the late 20th century and the early 21st century which has brought major changes to the International Order is identified as in need of a new paradigm of diplomatic thinking in order to adapt to the needs of modern diplomacy.
Sophie Meunier is a senior research scholar in Public and International Affairs at Princeton University's School of Public and International Affairs. She is the Director of Princeton's Program in Contemporary European Politics and Society and the Co-director of the European Union Program at Princeton,which she founded with Andrew Moravcsik. She also served as Acting Director of the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination at Princeton (2023-2024). She was elected Chair of the European Union Studies Association,the world's premier scholarly association for the study of the European Union and the process of European integration (2023-2024). A Franco-American political scientist,she is an expert in European integration,the politics of European trade and investment policy,and the politics of anti-Americanism. Meunier is a faculty fellow in Yeh College at Princeton University.
Thomas O. Melia currently serves as Washington director at PEN America. Previously,he served in the Obama Administration as USAID's Assistant Administrator for Europe and Eurasia (2015–2017) and as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of Democracy,Human Rights,and Labor at the United States Department of State (2010–2015). Melia also served as Executive Director of Democracy International,an organization that designs,implements,and evaluates democracy and governance programs around the world. Additionally,he was the Deputy Executive Director of Freedom House,a human rights organization.
Sieglinde Gstöhl is an academic from Liechtenstein.
Paul Brandeis Raushenbush is a US writer,editor,and religious activist.
Thania Paffenholz,born on 2 February 1965 in Cologne,Germany,is an academic and policy advisor working on peace processes. She is currently Director of Inclusive Peace. Thania Paffenholz has led comparative research of peace processes for over two decades and has been an advisor in peace processes in Mozambique,Angola,Somalia,Kenya,Uganda,South Sudan,Mali,Afghanistan,Nepal,Sri Lanka,Myanmar,Yemen,Egypt,El Salvador,Syria and Colombia. She received the Wihuri International Prize in 2015 for her work as a peace researcher.
Adela Raz is an Afghan politician who served as the last ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan to the United States from July 2021 to February 2022. Raz was also the first woman to hold the office of Permanent Representative of Afghanistan to the United Nations.
The Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination (LISD) is a research institute on self-determination,self-governance,and diplomacy. LISD is affiliated with the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. Founded in 2000 by the Prince Hans-Adam II of Liechtenstein,the Institute aims to enhance global peace and stability through its projects,publications,and commentaries.
Liberia–Turkey relations are the foreign relations between Liberia and Turkey. The Turkish ambassador in Accra,Ghana is also accredited to Liberia since 2013. Liberian Embassy in Brussels is accredited to Turkey. Turkey's Ministry of Foreign Affairs states that efforts to open an embassy in Liberia’s capital Monrovia are underway.
