Thomas G. Weiss

[1] Since 1998, he has been Presidential Professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and is Director Emeritus of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies.

He initiated the UN Intellectual History Project[6] in 1999 to trace the origins and the evolution of key ideas about international economic and social development nurtured under UN auspices.

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.

For over forty years he has regularly taught, lectured, consulted on, and conducted research on a wide variety of issues in international relations.

His research interests focus primarily on the United Nations, global governance, humanitarianism, human rights, the Responsibility to Protect doctrine, and the power of ideas in shaping world order.