THOMAS BIERSTEKER is Gasteyger Professor Honoraire at the Geneva Graduate Institute and a Public Policy Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington. He previously taught at Yale University, the University of Southern California, and Brown University. Author/editor of eleven books and principal developer of UNSanctionsApp, his research focuses primarily on international relations theory, multilateral 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.