She is currently a Professor of Government and Foreign Service at Georgetown University and President of the Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS).

[1] After graduating from Barnard, she returned to Leningrad State University to study Soviet constitutional law from 1991-1992, witnessing the USSR's dissolution.

She has also held fellowships at Stanford (CISAC), Harvard (Belfer Center), the University of Maryland (CIDCM), and the U.S. Institute of Peace.

She has published articles about peacekeeping, civil war termination, and American foreign policy.

[5] Her recent articles have examined historical changes to the ways that civil wars end as well as the use of force in UN peacekeeping.