Steering Committee

Thomas Biersteker is the first holder of the Curt Gasteyger Chair in International Security and Conflict Studies, established thanks to the support of the APESI to honour Professor Gasteyger, HEI professor emeritus. He is also the Director of the Graduate Institute's Programme for the Study of International Governance.

The author/editor of nine books, including State Sovereignty as Social Construct, The Emergence of Private Authority in Global Governance, and Countering the Financing of Terrorism, Biersteker’s research focuses primarily on international relations theory and economic aspects of contemporary global security issues.

He was previously Professor of Political Science at Brown University where he served for many years as Director of the Watson Institute for International Studies. He has also taught at Yale University and at the University of Southern California. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, an Honorary Fellow of the Foreign Policy Association, and a Fellow of the Club of Madrid.

For more information, please read his CV.

• International relations theory
• The economic aspects of contemporary security issues

• “Beyond the Published Discipline: Towards a critical pedagogy of international studies” with Jonas Hagmann, European Journal of International Relations, forthcoming.
• “Scholarly Participation in Transnational Policy Networks: The Case of Targeted Sanctions” in Mariano E. Bertucci and Abraham F. Lowenthal (eds.) Narrowing the Gap: Scholars, Policy-Makers and International Affairs (Balitmore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012)
• “State, Sovereignty, and Territory” in Walter Carlsnaes, Thomas Risse, and Beth A. Simmons (eds.), The Handbook of International Relations, 2nd edition (London: SAGE Publications, Ltd., 2012)
• “Global Governance, the Sustainability of International Institutions, and the Potential Role of University-based Research Institutes” in Luc E. Weber and James J. Duderstadt (eds.) Global
  Sustainability and the Responsibilities of Universities (Economica, Paris, London and Geneva, 2012)
• “Introduction” co-authored with Renée Marlin-Bennett, in Renée Marlin-Bennett (ed.) Alker and IR: Global studies in an interconnected world (New York and London: Routledge Publishers, 2011)
• “Interrelationships between Theory and Practice in International Security Studies,” Security Dialogue, 41 (6) November 2010
• “Targeted Sanctions and Human Rights,” The International Journal, 2010
• Countering the Financing of Global Terrorism (Routledge Publishers, 2007), co-edited with Sue Eckert.
• International Law and International Relations: Bridging Theory and Practice (Routledge Publishers 2006) co-edited with Veronica Raffo, Peter Sprio, and Chandra Sriram.
• War, Money and Survival (Geneva: International Committee of the Red Cross, 2000), co-edited with S. Fleming.
• The Re-Bordering North America (Routledge Publishers, 2003), co-edited with Peter Andreas.
• The Emergence of Private Authority in Global Governance (Cambridge University Press, 2002), co-edited with Rodney B. Hall.
• (with Robert S. McNamara) "Lessons of Vietnam for the 21st Century," in Argument without End: In Search of Answers to the Vietnam Tragedy (PublicAffairs Press, 1999).
• State Sovereignty As Social Construct (Cambridge University Press, 1996), co-edited with Cynthia Weber.