Thomas Biersteker

THOMAS BIERSTEKER is Gasteyger Professor Honoraire at the Graduate Institute, Geneva. He previously taught at Yale University, the University of Southern California, and Brown University, where he directed the Watson Institute for International Studies. Author/editor of eleven books (including State Sovereignty as Social Construct, The Emergence of Private Authority in Global Governance, Targeted Sanctions: The Impacts and Effectiveness of United Nations Action, and Informal Governance in World Politics, forthcoming with Cambridge University Press). He is principal developer of UNSanctionsApp, and his research focuses primarily on international relations theory, global governance, and international sanctions. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his B.A. from the University of Chicago. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and his awards include the Helen Dwight Reid Award from the American Political Science Association and the Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award from the University of Chicago.