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Curt Walter Gasteyger (born 20 March 1929 in Zurich, died 14 July 2020 in
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who specialised in questions of international security and
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Life

Gasteyger was the Director of the Association for the Promotion and Study of International Security (APESI), and Honorary Professor at the
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(HEI), Geneva. He was the Professor for International Relations at the HEI from 1974 to 1994. He was also the founder and director of the Programme for Strategic and International Security Studies. Gasteyger participated in the
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, established to investigate the many dormant accounts opened by Jews fleeing Nazi persecution in Swiss Banks. In 2003, he was awarded the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (
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). In 2005, the HEI created the Gasteyger Chair in International Security and Conflict Studies in Gasteyger's honour, after a large donation from APESI. The first professor to hold the chair was Thomas J. Biersteker. Gasteyer is buried at the
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(Cemetery of Kings), which is considered the Genevan
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References


"Creation of a Curt Gasteyger Chair in International Security and Conflict Studies"
''HEI in Brief, Agenda'', 28 October 2005. Accessed 30 May 2007. 1929 births 2020 deaths People from Zürich Commanders Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany Academic staff of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies {{Switzerland-academic-bio-stub