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Thomas G. Weiss

Thomas G. Weiss (born 1946) is a distinguished international diplomat and scholar of international relations and global governance with special expertise in the politics of the United Nations, where he himself served in various high-ranking roles. He was named a 2016 Andrew Carnegie Fellow for a project exploring the concept of a world without the United Nations.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_G._Weiss#cite_note-1 [1]]  From 1998 to 2023, he was Presidential Professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York; he is now Professor Emeritus and Director Emeritus of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_G._Weiss#cite_note-2 [2]] At present, he is Distinguished Fellow, Global Governance, The Chicago Council on Global Affairs; Global Eminence Scholar, Kyung Hee University, Seoul. In his spare time, he is a wood sculptor.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_G._Weiss#cite_note-3 [3]]

He is "one of the leading experts on the theory and practice of humanitarian intervention,"[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_G._Weiss#cite_note-4 [4]] and is recognized as an authority on international organizations and the UN system.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_G._Weiss#cite_note-5 [5]] Weiss adheres to the constructivist school, and advocates a position for intergovernmental organizations that goes beyond the anarchy of inter-state relations. He initiated the UN Intellectual History Project[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_G._Weiss#cite_note-unh-6 [6]] in 1999 to trace the origins and the evolution of key ideas about international economic and social development nurtured under UN auspices.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_G._Weiss#cite_note-unh-6 [6]] Weiss conceived the "Third United Nations," and directed the research team that popularized the concept of Responsibility to Protect (R2P). 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. His oral history transcript is available on the UN Intellectual History Project website.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_G._Weiss#cite_note-7 [7]] Provided by Wikipedia