INTERVIEW WITH PROFESSOR HERBERT REGINBOGIN: TRUMP VS. INTERNATIONAL LAW

Herbert Reginbogin is a professor at the Catholic University of America, Institute for Public Policy, researching new security architecture and American Foreign Policy. For over three decades, Professor Reginbogin has been involved in transatlantic relations, teaching at Potsdam University (Germany), Boğaziçi University (Türkiye), European University of Lefke (North Cyprus), Çağ University (Türkiye), Istanbul Kent University (Türkiye), and the U.S.-based Touro Law School as well as Guest Professor at several universities and law schools throughout the U.S., Europe, and East Asia. His work extends into multidisciplinary topics related to human and energy security, religious identity, freedom, and international law. Professor Reginbogin has written several books and articles on these topics, dealing with various political, economic, financial, and social issues facing Europe, Russia, the Middle East, and East Asia. In addition, Reginbogin has worked on several high-profile litigation cases and energy security issues in the Eastern Mediterranean, the EU, and the U.S., focusing on international maritime law, international refugee issues, the destabilization of the international order, and kleptocracy. He sits on the advisory board of the Institute for Peace (Vienna) and was the Acting President of the Turkish Heritage Organization (Washington, DC). His books include Neutrals and Beyond the Cold (July 2022, contributed and edited with Pascal Lottaz and Heinz Gaertner), The Vatican and Permanent Neutrality (April 2022, edited with Marshall Breger), Permanent Neutrality. A Model for Peace, Security, and Justice (2020 edited with Pascal Lottaz), Notions of Neutralities (2019 edited with Pascal Lottaz), Financial Markets of Neutral Countries in World War II (2012 edited by Robert Vogler et al.), Faces of Neutrality (2009), Guerre et Neutralite, Les Neutres Face a Hitler (2008), Der Vergleich (2006), Nuremberg Trials: International Criminal Law Since 1945 (2006 edited with Christoph Safferling), and Hitler, der Westen und die Schweiz  (2001 co-authored with Walther Hofer) as well several articles in law reviews and academic journals.

International Political Academy (UPA) coordinator and Uskudar University staff Prof. Dr. Ozan Örmeci conducted a Zoom talk with Professor Herbert Reginbogin on January 16, 2026, on contemporary developments in United States political life, President Donald Trump’s recent policies, and the future of rules-based international order.