Wolfgang F.
Danspeckgruber, an Austrian-born American academic and founding director of the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination at Princeton University, died on February 17, 2026. He taught at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Department of Politics from 1988, with a focus on state, international security, self-determination, diplomacy and crisis diplomacy.
Danspeckgruber was also founder and chair of the Liechtenstein Colloquium on European and International Affairs, a private diplomacy forum.
Wolfgang Franz Danspeckgruber (February 4, 1956 – February 17, 2026) was an Austrian-born American academic who was the Founding Director of the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination at Princeton University. He taught on issues of state, international security, self-determination, diplomacy and crisis diplomacy at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Department of Politics from 1988. Danspeckgruber was also founder and chair of the Liechtenstein Colloquium on European and International Affairs, LCM, a private diplomacy forum.