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Email this citationCIAO DATE: 10/05
A Conversation with Tom Weiss
2004
Abstract
Presidential Professor Thomas G. Weiss has been a faculty member of the Ph.D. Program in Political Science and director of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies (RBIIS) since 1998. In the latter role, his wide ranging activities are closely linked to the programs of the Institute. He is co-director of its UN Intellectual History Project, editor of the journal Global Governance, and research director of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty. Earlier in his career, Weiss worked in the UN secretariat for ten years—and has experience addressing problems of economic and social development in 125 countries—before returning to the academic life at Brown University, where he taught from 1990 to 1998. He has written extensively on international organization, conflict management, peacekeeping, and humanitarian action, including the fourth edition of his best-selling textbook, The United Nations and Changing World Politics (Westview, 2004), and he recently edited two books on terrorism: Wars on Terrorism and Iraq (Routledge, 2004) and The UN and Terrorism (Indiana University Press, 2004). Folio spoke with Weiss about the challenges of studying global politics as they unfold, and his unique role as a scholar with inside knowledge of the UN.
