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I am a regular columnist at Global Policy and contribute more broadly to public debate on political theory, national security, intelligence, and international relations.
Robert Schuett. “The Trouble with How We Define Intelligence.” Global Policy, February 10, 2026.
Robert Schuett. “Intelligence and the Limits of Political Realism.” Global Policy, February 3, 2026.
Marek M. Jaros & Robert Schuett. “Poland and the Sword’s Edge.” Global Policy, January 28, 2026.
Robert Schuett [Presentation]. “What is Intelligence? Intelligence in International Society: An English School Approach.” Diplomatic Academy Vienna, Brownbag Research Colloquium, January 23, 2026.
Marek M. Jaros & Robert Schuett. “Poland and the Problems of Preparation against Russia.” Global Policy, January 5, 2026.
Robert Schuett [Interview]. “James Bond war gestern – Nachrichtendienste im Fokus.” Salzburger Nachrichten, December 13, 2025.
Robert Schuett. “Political Realism and Political Idealism, 2026.” Global Policy, December 8, 2025.
Marek M. Jaros & Robert Schuett. “Poland’s Paradox: From the Polish Plumber to Polish Power.” Global Policy, December 2, 2025.
Robert Schuett & Georg Psota. “Why Medication Matters: Mental Health, War, and Ukraine.” Global Policy, October 2, 2025.
Robert Schuett. “Ukraine Is Rethinking Mental Health in Wartime – and the World Should Take Note.” Kyiv Post, September 28, 2025.
Robert Schuett. “The Vice President Who Wouldn’t Fight (Not Even Talk).” Global Policy, September 22, 2025.
Robert Schuett. “From Brody to Bogotá (and Medellín): Why Hans Kelsen Is More Relevant Than Ever.” Global Policy, September 15, 2025.
Robert Schuett [Presentation]. “Defending Democracy: Hans Kelsen on War and Peace.” Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano. Bogotá, September 5, 2025.
Robert Schuett [Keynote]. “El Realismo Político de Hans Kelsen.” Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Medellín, September 4, 2025.
Robert Schuett [Presentation]. “Defending Democracy: Hans Kelsen on War and Peace.” Universidad Externado de Colombia. Bogotá, September 3, 2025.
Robert Schuett [Presentation]. “Defending Democracy: Hans Kelsen on War and Peace.” Universidad Santo Tomás. Bogotá, September 3, 2025.
Robert Schuett [Presentation]. “Defending Democracy: Hans Kelsen on War and Peace.” Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Bogotá, September 2, 2025.
Robert Schuett [Presentation]. “Defending Democracy: Hans Kelsen on War and Peace.” Universidad El Bosque. Bogotá, September 2, 2025.
Robert Schuett & Susanne Schuett. “Healing Beyond Survival: AI, Mental Health, and War.” Global Policy, September 2, 2025.
Robert Schuett [Keynote]. “El Realismo Político de Hans Kelsen.” Universidad Nacional de Columbia. Bogotá, September 1, 2025.
Robert Schuett [Presentation]. “Defending Democracy: Hans Kelsen on War and Peace.” Universidad de los Andes. Bogotá, September 1, 2025.
Robert Schuett, Viktoriya Teliha, Susanne Schuett, & Mykhaylo Pustovoyt. “Broken Spirits: Confronting Addiction, Stigma, and the Path to Recovery in Ukraine.” Global Policy, August 19, 2025.
Robert Schuett. “Before Vienna: The Hans Kelsen of Brody.” Global Policy, August 12, 2025.
Robert Schuett & Susanne Schuett. “Kindergartens and Schools at the Frontline of Global Mental Health.” Global Policy, July 28, 2025.
Robert Schuett. “Hans Kelsen and the (Quiet) Power of Intelligence.” Global Policy, July 23, 2025.
Robert Schuett. “Does Secret Intelligence Make for Better Policy? (Some Preliminary Thoughts).” Global Policy, July 16, 2025.
Robert Schuett. “Hans Kelsen and Peace Through Mental Health.” Global Policy, July 10, 2025
Robert Schuett. “What the English School Gets Right About the World.” Global Policy, July 3, 2025
Robert Schuett. “Seizing Zaporizhzhia: A Meltdown in Nuclear Governance.” Global Policy, June 30, 2025.
Robert Schuett [Keynote]. “Geopolitics and Diplomacy.” Workshop for First Ladies and Gentlemen “Soft Power and Geopolitics,” co-hosted by Olena Zelenska, First Lady of Ukraine, and Doris Schmidauer, First Lady of Austria. Office of the President of the Republic of Austria, June 18, 2025.
Robert Schuett [Presentation]. “Hans Kelsen’s Political Realism.” Centro Hans Kelsen de Estudos sobre Jurisdição Constitucional. Brazilian Institute of Education, Development and Research (IDP). Brasilia, June 9, 2025.
Robert Schuett. “Hybrid Threats in Europe: Zersetzung Writ Large.” Global Policy, June 4, 2025.
Robert Schuett & Luca Trenta. “Covert Wars, Criminal Gangs, and the ‘New Threat’ Environment.” RUSI Commentary, May 27, 2025.
Robert Schuett [Interview]. “Ukrainian and European defence tech through the eyes of an Austrian at the London forum.” Defender Media, May 26, 2025.
Robert Schuett & Susanne Schuett. “When Hospitals Become Battlegounds.” Global Policy, May 20, 2025.
Robert Schuett. “Victory Day, Propaganda Day.” Global Policy, May 14, 2025.
Robert Schuett & Susanne Schuett. “The (Very) Silent Frontline.” Global Policy, May 5, 2025.
Robert Schuett & Susanne Schuett. “The Silent Frontline.” Global Policy, April 28, 2025.
Robert Schuett & Philipp Schramm. “Gangs of Geopolitics.” Global Policy, April 22, 2025.
Mansoor H. Ayobi & Robert Schuett. “Der Fall Afghanistan: Exil, Opposition und internationale Verantwortung.” Der Standard, March 6, 2025.
Robert Schuett. “Hans Kelsen und die Englische Schule in den Internationalen Beziehungen.” Der Standard, March 3, 2025.
Robert Schuett. “Drei Jahre Krieg gegen die Ukraine: Warum nur Frieden durch Recht Bestand hat.” Der Standard, February 24, 2025.
Robert Schuett [Presentation]. “Hans Kelsen and the English School in International Relations.” International Conference Hans Kelsen Revisited: Democracy, Society, Law. University of Turin, January 30, 2025.
Robert Schuett & Harald Edinger. “Tag der Politikwissenschaft 2024.” Der Standard, December 19, 2024.
Robert Schuett [Panel Chair]. “Intelligence Studies.” 10th Annual Conference of the Austrian Political Science Association. Central European University, November 28/29, 2024.
Robert Schuett. “Welcoming Remarks.” 10th Annual Conference of the Austrian Political Science Association. Central European University, November 28/29, 2024.
Robert Schuett [Lecture]. “Geopolitics & Sanctions.” Diplomatic Academy of Vienna & Federal Ministry of European and International Affairs, Republic of Austria, October 15, 2025.
Robert Schuett. “Staatliche Vermögensabschöpfung als Mittel gegen organisierte Kriminalität.” Der Standard, October 15, 2024.
Robert Schuett & John C. Williams. “Friede durch Spionage: Hans Kelsen offene Gesellschaft und der Globale Süden.” Der Standard, September 5, 2024.
Robert Schuett. “Realismus, Realpolitik und Geopolitik: Eine kritische Auseinandersetzung.” Der Standard, July 23, 2024.
Viktor Kharyton & Robert Schuett. “War and Crime: The New Geopolitical Nexus in Ukraine.” Polemics Magazine 3, June (2024): 15-16.
Robert Schuett [Moderator]. “The History (and Future) of Political Realism,” expert panel discussion, Diplomatic Academy Vienna, June 25, 2024.
Robert Schuett [Panelist]. “Ukraine’s 10 Point Peace Formula: Power or Powerless?” Diplomatic Academy Vienna, June 11, 2024.
Robert Schuett & John C. Williams. “Kelsen, das FBI und die CIA.” Der Standard, June 3, 2024.
Ayesha Peacock & Robert Schuett. “War Rape in the Age of AI.” Polemics Magazine 2, May (2024): 21-22.
Robert Schuett & John C. Williams. “Hans Kelsen und die Nachrichtendienste.” Der Standard, April 22, 2024.
Robert Schuett [Interview]. “Aproximación al pensamiento de un experto en la doctrina del realismo politico clásico y obra de Hans Kelsen: entrevista a Robert Schuett.” Precedente. Revista Jurídica 24, Enero-Junio (2024): 122-142.
Robert Schuett [Moderator]. “U.S. Foreign Wars, Mass Marketing, and the Development of Post-Truth Politics,” Fulbright Lecture by Ido Oren (University of Florida), Diplomatic Academy Vienna, March 4, 2024.
Robert Schuett [Principal Investigator]. “Stealing Secrets? Intelligence theory and the open society.” International research workshop. Institute of Advanced Study & School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University, February 7, 2024.
Robert Schuett. “Der Macht die Wahrheit sagen.” Die Presse, January 26, 2024.
Robert Schuett [Presentation]. “Die Machtverteilung bzw. Machtbeziehungen zwischen den Weltmächten.” Research workshop Ethos der Macht. Austrian Armed Forces – National Defence Academy, Vienna, October 24, 2023.
Robert Schuett [Presentation]. “Kelsenian Moments: Intelligence Analysis in Theory and Practice. Durham Global Security Institute & School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University, May 16, 2023.
Robert Schuett [Presentation]. “Die Theorie des Politischen Realismus am Beispiel des Ukraine-Krieges. Ringvorlesung: Politik – wissenschaftlich betrachtet. Universität Salzburg, April 25, 2023.
Robert Schuett [Interview]. “Hans Kelsen über Verfassung, Demokratie und Weltfrieden (3): Wie internationales Recht Frieden stiftet.” Ö1 Radio, April 13, 2023.
Christoph C. Konrath & Robert Schuett. “Architekt der österreichischen Verfassung: Zum 50. Todestag von Hans Kelsen.” Die Furche, April 13, 2023.
Robert Schuett. “Europäische Sicherheit auf Knopfdruck.” Wiener Zeitung, March 27, 2023.
Robert Schuett [Interview]. “Wenn die Ukraine noch ihre Atomwaffen hätte – was wäre anders gelaufen?” Salzburger Nachrichten, March 10, 2023.
Robert Schuett [Interview]. “Wäre Putin in der Nato friedlich?” Salzburger Nachrichten, February 10, 2023.
Robert Schuett [Interview]. “Im Krieg rufen alle nach der Diplomatie – aber was kann sie heute wirklich ausrichten?” Salzburger Nachrichten, January 29, 2023.
Robert Schuett [Presentation]. “Von Kelsen zu Trump – und zurück?” Rotary Club Vienna-West, Hotel Bristol, January 19, 2023.
Robert Schuett. “Kelsenians, war and peace are calling (yet again).” Edinburgh University Press blog, November 28, 2022.
Robert Schuett. “Professor Herz, wo sind Sie?” Wiener Zeitung, November 26, 2022.
Robert Schuett. “Hans Kelsen, der Sicherheitspolitiker.” Wiener Zeitung, November 2, 2022
Robert Schuett. “Machts mehr Morgenthau.” Die Presse, October 20, 2022.
Robert Schuett. “Die zeitlose Aktualität von George Soros.” Wiener Zeitung, August 17, 2022.
Robert Schuett. “Die Zukunft gibt’s nicht am Billardtisch.” Wiener Zeitung, August 2, 2022.
Robert Schuett [Presentation]. “Peace through Law: Kelsen, Politics, and Realism.” Hans Kelsen’s Political Theory Revisited international workshop, Nova Institute of Philosophy, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal, May 30, 2022.
Robert Schuett [Presentation]. “Was Hans Kelsen a Political Realist?” An International Seminar around Hans Kelsen’s Political Realismby Robert Schuett, hosted by Università degli Studi “Magna Graecia” di Catanzaro, Italy and Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, January 24-25, 2022.
Robert Schuett. “Peace through Law? Political Realism and Hans Kelsen.” E-International Relations, March 2, 2021.
Robert Schuett. “What is Progressive Realism? The ‘other’ Kelsen.” Edinburgh University Press blog, January 2, 2021.
Robert Schuett. “Fear and Freud in Politics: Critical Notes on Mearsheimer’s Structural Realism.” E-International Relations, September 4, 2020.

