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Thomas Biersteker

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Distinguished Non-resident Fellow

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thomas.biersteker@graduateinstitute.ch

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THOMAS J. BIERSTEKER is the Gasteyger Professor Honoraire at the Graduate Institute, Geneva and a Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC. He previously taught at Yale University, the University of Southern California, and Brown University, where he directed the Watson Institute for International Studies from 1994 until 2006

Author, editor, or co-editor of eleven books, his next book, co-edited with Oliver Westerwinter and Kenneth Abbott is Informal Governance in World Politics (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2022). He is also co-editor of Targeted Sanctions: The Impacts and Effectiveness of UN Action (Cambridge, 2016), Countering the Financing of Global Terrorism (Routledge, 2008), International Law and International Relations: Bridging Theory and Practice (Routledge, 2006), The Emergence of Private Authority in Global Governance (Cambridge, 2002), and State Sovereignty as Social Construct (Cambridge 1996).

His research focuses primarily on international relations, global governance, and international sanctions. In addition to providing annual sanctions training for incoming members of the UN Security Council, he is the principal developer of SanctionsApp, an interactive tool for the design and analysis of UN targeted sanctions. His recent research activities include work with the UN and Member States on the reform of UN targeted sanctions.

He has provided briefings on his research to the UN Security Council (in an Arria Formula meeting), the European Union, and the governments of Switzerland, the US, Norway, Korea, Germany, Belgium, Australia, Canada, the UK, Armenia, Slovenia, and Jamaica. During the past seven years, he has consulted and drafted policy reports for the UN University’s Centre for Policy Research, the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs of Switzerland, Global Affairs Canada, the Carter Center, the Asia Pacific Leadership Network, swisspeace, Intermediate, Humanitarian Dialogue, and the European Union’s Institute for Security Studies.

He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, previously served as the chair of the Social Science Research Council’s Global Security and Cooperation Committee, and was a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Futures Council on the Korean Peninsula.

He received his Ph.D. and M.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his B.A. from the University of Chicago. A recipient of the Helen Dwight Reid Dissertation award from the American Political Science Association, he was awarded the University of Chicago’s Professional Achievement Award in 2020. 

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