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Thomas G. Weiss (born 1946) is a distinguished international diplomat and scholar of 
international relations International relations (IR, and also referred to as international studies, international politics, or international affairs) is an academic discipline. In a broader sense, the study of IR, in addition to multilateral relations, concerns al ...
 and 
global governance Global governance (or world governance) refers to institutions that coordinate the behavior of transnationality, transnational actors, facilitate cooperation, resolve disputes, and alleviate collective action problems. Global governance broadly ...
 with special expertise in the politics of the 
United Nations The United Nations (UN) is the Earth, global intergovernmental organization established by the signing of the Charter of the United Nations, UN Charter on 26 June 1945 with the stated purpose of maintaining international peace and internationa ...
, where he himself served in various high-ranking roles. He was named a 2016 Andrew Carnegie Fellow for a project exploring the concept of a world without the United Nation
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  From 1998 to 2023, he was Presidential Professor at the Graduate Center, CUNY">Graduate Center The Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York (CUNY Graduate Center) is a public university, public research institution and post-graduate university, postgraduate university in New York City. Formed in 1961 as Divi ...
 of the City University of New York; he is now Professor Emeritus and Director Emeritus of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studie
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 At present, he is Distinguished Fellow, Global Governance, The Chicago Council on Global Affairs">">[2
 At present, he is Distinguished Fellow, Global Governance, The Chicago Council on Global Affairs; Global Eminence Scholar, Kyung Hee University, Seoul. In his spare time, he is a wood sculpto
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He is "one of the leading experts on the theory and practice of 
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 and is recognized as an authority on international organization">">[4
 and is recognized as an authority on international organizations and the UN syste
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 Weiss adheres to the Constructivism (international relations)">constructivist school, and advocates a position for intergovernmental organizations that goes beyond the 
anarchy Anarchy is a form of society without rulers. As a type of stateless society, it is commonly contrasted with states, which are centralized polities that claim a monopoly on violence over a permanent territory. Beyond a lack of government, it can ...
 of inter-state relations. He initiated the UN Intellectual History Proje
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 in 1999 to trace the origins and the evolution of key ideas about international economic and social development nurtured under UN auspice
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 Weiss conceived the "Third United Nations," and directed the research team that popularized the concept of Responsibility to protect">Responsibility to Protect The responsibility to protect (R2P or RtoP) is a global political commitment which was endorsed by the United Nations General Assembly at the 2005 World Summit in order to address its four key concerns to prevent genocide, war crimes, ethnic cle ...
 (R2P). A firm believer in R2P, Weiss has argued in numerous works that a well-grounded interpretation of sovereignty does not preclude intervention in the face of mass atrocities. His oral history transcript is available on the UN Intellectual History Project websit
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Biography

Weiss received his  BA from 
Bachelor of Arts">BA from Harvard University and both his Master of Arts">MA and Doctor of Philosophy">PhD A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, DPhil; or ) is a terminal degree that usually denotes the highest level of academic achievement in a given discipline and is awarded following a course of graduate study and original research. The name of the deg ...
 from Princeton University. He pursued advanced studies at the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva. He held professional posts in the Office of the United Nations Commissioner for Namibia, UN Commissioner for Namibia, the University Program at the Institute for World Order, the 
United Nations Institute for Training and Research The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) is a dedicated training arm of the United Nations system. UNITAR provides training and capacity development activities to assist mainly developing countries with special attention ...
, and the 
International Labour Organization The International Labour Organization (ILO) is a United Nations agency whose mandate is to advance social and economic justice by setting international labour standards. Founded in October 1919 under the League of Nations, it is one of the firs ...
. He served as a Senior Economic Affairs Officer at the 
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) is an intergovernmental organization within the United Nations Secretariat that promotes the interests of developing countries in world trade. It was established in 1964 by the United Nations General Assembl ...
 in Geneva from 1975 until 1985. After leaving UNCTAD, he became executive director of the International Peace Academy (now the 
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), until he left in 1989 to become research professor at 
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 and associate director of their 
Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs The Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, soon to be renamed Watson School for International and Public Affairs, is an interdisciplinary research center at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Its mission is to promote a ...
. He was also executive director of the Academic Council on the United Nations System ( ACUNS) from 1992 and 1998, and co-director of the Humanitarianism and War Project. From 2012 to 2015, he was a Visiting research professor at 
SOAS, University of London The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS University of London; ) is a public university, public research university in London, England, and a constituent college, member institution of the federal University of London. Founded in 1916, ...
. For over forty years he has regularly taught, lectured, consulted on, and conducted research on a wide variety of issues in international relation
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His recent consultancy work included multi-year assignments with the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Smithsonian, and J. Paul Getty Trust.


Contributions

He served as an advisory board member for the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect (non-governmental organization)">Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect from 2007 to 2014 and sits on the editorial boards of ''Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding'', ''
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'', ''
Global Governance Global governance (or world governance) refers to institutions that coordinate the behavior of transnationality, transnational actors, facilitate cooperation, resolve disputes, and alleviate collective action problems. Global governance broadly ...
'', and ''Global Responsibility to Protect''. He is, along with
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, co-editor of Routledge's "Global Institutions Series." His prior positions include: * Director of the United Nations Intellectual History Project, with Louis Emmerij and
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, 1999–2010. In addition to overseeing seventeen volumes and 80 oral histories of ideas in the United Nations, the three directors notably introduced the idea that there are "three United Nations." * Research Director of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty, 2000–2002. This initiative popularized the concept of the "responsibility to protect," and Weiss co-authored the supplementary volume—which traced the ethics, assessed the operational mechanics, and analyzed the political dimensions of the undertaking—that accompanied the final report of the commission. * President of the International Studies Association, the preeminent professional association of scholars of international politics, 2009–2010, and recipient of it
2016 International Organization Distinguished Scholar Award
* Chair of the Academic Council on the United Nations System, 2007–2009. * Editor, Global Governance, 2000–2005. * Director of The Future United Development Systems Project, with Stephen Browne, 2011–2017. * Director of the Wartime United Nations Project, with
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, 2011–2015.


Academic work

Weiss has authored or edited some 60 books and 275 articles and book chapters. His research interests focus primarily on the United Nations,
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,
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human rights Human rights are universally recognized Morality, moral principles or Social norm, norms that establish standards of human behavior and are often protected by both Municipal law, national and international laws. These rights are considered ...
, the
Responsibility to Protect The responsibility to protect (R2P or RtoP) is a global political commitment which was endorsed by the United Nations General Assembly at the 2005 World Summit in order to address its four key concerns to prevent genocide, war crimes, ethnic cle ...
doctrine, and the power of ideas in shaping world order. Weiss's books from the 21st century include (most recent editions are listed): * Weiss, Thomas G. and Rorden Wilkenson, eds. (2023). ''International Organization and Global Governance,'' Third Edition outledge
International Organization and Global Governance
* Weiss, Thomas G. and James Cuno, eds. (2022). ''Cultural Heritage and Mass Atrocities etty Publicationshttps://www.getty.edu/publications/cultural-heritage-mass-atrocities/. * Weiss, Thomas G. and Rorden Wilkinson, eds. (2021). ''Global Governance Futures'' outledgehttps://www.routledge.com/Global-Governance-Futures/Weiss-Wilkinson/p/book/9780367689735. * Weiss, Thomas G. and Tatiana Carayannis (2021). ''The “Third” United Nations: How a Knowledge Ecology Helps the UN Think'' xfordhttps://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-third-united-nations-9780198855859?q=carayannis&lang=en&cc=us *Weiss, Thomas G. and Stephen Browne, eds. (2021). ''Routledge Handbook on the UN and Development'' outledgehttps://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Handbook-on-the-UN-and-Development/Browne-Weiss/p/book/9780367186852 * Weiss, Thomas G. and
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(2019). "''Rethinking Global Governance"'' olity Press http://politybooks.com/bookdetail/?isbn=9781509527236 * Weiss, Thomas G. and Sam Daws, eds. (2018). "''The Oxford Handbook on the UN"'' Second Edition xford Press https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-handbook-on-the-united-nations-9780198803164?q=weiss%20daws&lang=en&cc=gb# *Weiss, Thomas G. (2018). "''Would the World Be Better without the UN?"'' olity ,http://politybooks.com/bookdetail/?isbn=9781509517251 * Weiss, Thomas G. and Rorden Wilkinson, eds. ''(2018). International Organization and Global Governance,'' Second Edition outledge ,https://www.routledge.com/International-Organization-and-Global-Governance-2nd-Edition/Weiss-Wilkinson/p/book/9781138236585. * Weiss, Thomas G. and Danielle Zach, eds. (2018). ''70 Years of the United Nations in International Affairs: United Nations Virtual Issue,'' an online compendium of ''International Affairs'', available at https://academic.oup.com/ia/pages/united_nations * Weiss, Thomas G.; Hoffman, Peter J. (2018) "Humanitarianism, War, and Politics" First Edition owman & Littlefield , https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781442266131/Humanitarianism-War-and-Politics-Solferino-to-Syria-and-Beyond * Weiss, Thomas G.; Roy, Pallavi, eds. (2017) "The UN and the Global South, 1945 and 2015", First Edition outledge , https://www.routledge.com/The-UN-and-the-Global-South-1945-and-2015/Weiss-Roy/p/book/9781138222922 * Weiss, Thomas G.; Forsythe, David P.; Coate, Roger; Kelly-Kate Pease (2017), ''The United Nations and Changing World Politics'', Eighth Edition, estview Press , https://westviewpress.com/books/the-united-nations-and-changing-world-politics/. * Weiss, Thomas G. (2016), ''What's Wrong With the United Nations and How to Fix It'', Third Edition,
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http://www.polity.co.uk/book.asp?ref=9780745659800
* Weiss, Thomas G.; Abdenur, Adriana Erthal, eds. (2016), ''Emerging Powers and the UN: What Kind of Development Partnership?,'' outledge , https://www.routledge.com/products/9781138947320. * Plesch, Dan; Weiss, Thomas G., eds. (2015), ''Wartime Origins and The Future United Nations'', outledge , http://www.sponpress.com/books/details/9780415712675/. For interview see https://soundcloud.com/siriusxm-news-issues/thomas-weiss-wartime-origins-and-the-future-united-nations. * Weiss, Thomas G. ''Governing the World? Addressing "Problems without Passports"'' (2014), aradigm , http://www.paradigmpublishers.com/Books/BookDetail.aspx?productID=393776 * Weiss, Thomas G.; Browne, Stephen, eds. (2014), ''Post-2015 UN Development: Making change happen'' outledge , http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415856638/. * Weiss, Thomas G.; Serrano, Monica, eds. (2014),''The International Politics of Human Rights: Rallying to the R2P C-use?'' outledge , http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415626347/. * Weiss, Thomas G.; Wilkinson, Rorden, eds. (2014), ''International Organization and Global Governance'', outledge . * Weiss, Thomas G. (2013), ''Global Governance: Why? What? Whither'', olity Press , http://www.polity.co.uk/book.asp?ref=9780745660455. * Weiss, Thomas G. (2013), ''Humanitarian Business'', olity Press , http://www.polity.co.uk/book.asp?ref=9780745663319. * Barnett, Michael; Weiss, Thomas G. (2011), ''Humanitarianism Contested: Where Angels Fear to Tread'', outledge , http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415496643/. * Mani, Rama; Weiss, Thomas G., eds. (2011), ''Responsibility to Protect: Cultural Perspectives in the Global South'',
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, , http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415781855/. * Weiss, Thomas G. (2011), ''Thinking about Global Governance, Why People and Ideas Matter'',
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, , http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415781930/. * Weiss, Thomas G.; Thakur, Ramesh (2010), ''Global Governance and the UN: An Unfinished Journey'',
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, , http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?products_id=145358. * Boulden, Jane; Thakur, Ramesh; Weiss, Thomas G., eds. (2009), ''The United Nations and Nuclear Orders'', nited Nations University Press , https://unp.un.org/bookshop/details.aspx?sku=9789280811674. * Jolly, Richard; Emmerij, Louis; and Weiss, Thomas G. (2009), ''UN Ideas That Changed the World'', ndiana University Press , http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?products_id=95548. * Barnett, Michael; Weiss, Thomas G., eds. (2008), ''Humanitarianism in Question: Politics, Power, Ethics'', ornell University Press , http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100666490. * Weiss, Thomas G.; Daws, Sam, eds. (2007), ''The Oxford Handbook on the United Nations'' xford University Press , http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199560103.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199560103. * Weiss, Thomas G.; with Korn, David A. (2006) ''Internal Displacement: Conceptualization and Its Consequences'',
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, , http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415770798/. * Hoffman, Peter J.; Weiss, Thomas G. (2006), ''Sword & Salve: Confronting New Wars and Humanitarian Crises'', owman & Littlefield . * Weiss, Thomas G. (2004), ''Military-Civilian Interactions: Humanitarian Crises and the Responsibility to Protect'', Second Edition,
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, . * Weiss, Thomas G.; Caryannis, Tatiana; Emmerij, Louis; and Jolly, Richard (2005), ''UN Voices: The Struggle for Development and Social Justice'', ndiana University Press , http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?products_id=22228. * Weiss, Thomas G., Crahan, Margaret E.; Goering, John, eds. (2004), ''Wars on Terrorism and Iraq: Human Rights, Unilateralism, and U.S. Foreign Policy'', outledge , http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415700634/. * Boulden, Jane; Weiss, Thomas G., eds. (2004), ''Terrorism and the UN: Before and After September 11'',
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, , http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?products_id=21665. * Weiss, Thomas G., Hubert, Don (2002) ''The Responsibility to Protect: Research, Bibliography, Background'', nternational Development Research Centre , http://web.idrc.ca/en/ev-9439-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html. * Louis Emmerij; Jolly, Richard; and Weiss, Thomas G. (2001), ''Ahead of the Curve?: UN Ideas and Global Challenges'', ndiana University Press , http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?products_id=21187. * Aall, Pamela; Miltenberger, Daniel; Weiss, Thomas G. (2000), ''Guide to IGOs, NGOs, and the Military in Peace and Relief Operations'', S Institute of Peace .


Lectures, talks, and interviews

* Thomas G. Weiss presentation of his new book "Would the World Be Better without the UN?" followed by Q&A, from the Korean Foundation for Advanced Studies http://ralphbuncheinstitute.org/2018/06/11/thomas-weiss-on-his-new-book-would-the-world-be-better-without-the-un/ * The new UN Secretary General faces harrowing challenges: an interview with The Wall Street Journal: https://www.wsj.com/video/new-un-secretary-general-faces-harrowing-challenges/C8EF89CA-1B1C-4EE6-AAD1-24D9F0091127.html * In November 2016, the semi-annual publication of the entire City University of New York System was devoted to faculty award recipients. "Salute to Scholars" featured him and the award on pp. 56–57, also available at http://www2.cuny.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/page-assets/news/publications/includes/salute-to-scholars/Salute-to-Scholars-Faculty-Awards-2016.pdf. * "As UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon is toward the Bottom", ''The Hankyoreh'', 20 June 2016
http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_international/748952.html.
* Thomas G. Weiss and Stephen Browne wrote for MUNPlanet about the challenges that lay ahead the post-2015 development agenda.
"United Nations is very cost-effective", SNBC, 18 November 2015, http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000456012.
* "Humanitarian Business", Center for Global Ethics and Politics, 20 February 2014
http://cgep.ws.gc.cuny.edu/cgep-video/thomas-g-weiss/.
* ISA's Presidents Series, International Studies Association, 2010
http://www.isanet.org/Programs/PRC/Short-Term-Release-2.


References


External links


Thomas G. Weiss and Roden Wilkinson's article "Rethinking Global Governance? Complexity, Authority, Power, Change" was the most cited piece in International Studies Quarterly

Thomas G. Weiss's faculty profile at City University of New York.

The United Nations Intellectual History Project website

The FP Survey: The United Nations, "an exclusive poll of top experts" that includes Thomas G. Weiss

SOAS, University of London, Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy (CISD)

Future United Nations Development System (FUNDS) Project
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