ABSTRACT
Thomas Biersteker is Gasteyger Professor and Director of the Programme for the Study of
International Governance, The Graduate Institute, Geneva. He directed the Watson Institute
for International Studies at Brown University from 1994 to 2006 and has also taught at Yale
University and the University of Southern California. He is the author/editor/co-editor of ten
books, including State sovereignty as social construct (1996), The emergence of private auth-
ority in global covernance (2002), and Targeting sanctions: The impacts and effectiveness of
UN action (forthcoming 2015). His current research focuses on targeted sanctions, the emer-
gence of transnational policy networks in global security governance, and the dialectics of
world orders. He was the principal developer of SanctionsApp, a tool for iPhone and Android
mobile devices created in 2013 to increase access to information and improve the quality of dis-
course about targeted sanctions at the UN Security Council. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. from
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his B.A. from the University of Chicago.
