Thomas Weiss | The UN in the Age of Trump | February 23

Friday, February 23, 2018 - 1:00pm to 2:30pm
UMass Amherst | 420 Thompson Hall

""Thomas Weiss (Political Science | CUNY Graduate Center) will address the questions and challenges surrounding the United Nations in the current political context. A light luncheon will be served. Please RSVP below to assist our planning.

This event is supported by the ISSR Scholars Program, promoting successful research and grants development for social science faculty across the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Dr. Weiss visits UMass to collaborate with ISSR Scholar Peter Haas (Political Science). 

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Thomas Weiss is Presidential Professor of Political Science at the CUNY Graduate Center, and a leading expert on the United Nations and on humanitarian intervention. Dr. Weiss holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. from Princeton University and a B.A. from Harvard University. From 1998 to 2017 he served as director of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, and is the 2016 Andrew Carnegie Fellow and the International Studies Association’s 2016 Distinguished IO Scholar.  He has written extensively about international organizations, conflict management, humanitarian action, the Responsibility to Protect doctrine, North-South relations, and U.S. foreign policy. He is sole author of ten books, is coauthor or editor of more than forty other books, and has published more than 250 articles and book chapters. His latest authored books are What’s Wrong with the United Nations and How to Fix It (2016); Humanitarian Intervention (2016); Governing the World? Addressing “Problems without Passports” (2014) and Humanitarian Business (2013). He currently directs two research projects, Wartime History and the Future United Nations, and the Future United Nations Development System.

Weiss has held leadership positions and professional posts in academic research institutes and in prominent nongovernmental organizations and think tanks, among them Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies, the Academic Council on the UN System, the International Peace Academy, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, and the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty. Weiss served as president of the International Studies Association (ISA) (2009–10), editor of Global Governance (2000–05), and director of the UN Intellectual History Project (1999–2010). A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, International Institute for Strategic Studies, and ISA, he currently is editor of the book series “Global Institutions” (Routledge) and serves on eight editorial boards.