Prof. Thomas G. Weiss

Thomas G. Weiss is a distinguished scholar of international relations and global governance, with special expertise in the politics of the United Nations. He is Presidential Professor of Political Science at The Graduate Center, CUNY (The City University of New York). Between 1998, when he first came to the Graduate Center, and 2014, he served as director of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies.

A leading expert on the United Nations and on humanitarian intervention, Mr. Weiss 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 co-author or editor of more than forty other books, and has published more than 225 articles and book chapters. His latest authored books are 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.

Mr. 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. Mr. 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.

Mr. Weiss holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. from Princeton University and a B.A. from Harvard University