Dr. Michael Barnett

Michael Barnett is University Professor of International Affairs and Political Science at the George Washington University. His research interests span the Middle East, humanitarianism, global governance, global ethics, and the United Nations. Among his many books are Eyewitness to a Genocide: The United Nations and Rwanda; Dialogues in Arab Politics: Negotiations in Regional Order; Empire of Humanity: A History of Humanitarianism; Rules for the World: International Organizations in World Politics (with Martha Finnemore); Security Communities (co-edited with Emanuel Adler); Sacred Aid (co-edited with Janice Stein); Power and Global Governance (co-edited with Raymond Duvall); Humanitarianism in Question (co-edited with Thomas Weiss). His most recent books include The Star and the Stripes: A History of the Foreign Policies of the American Jews; the edited volume Paternalism Beyond Borders; and the edited collection Humanitarianism and Human Rights: Worlds of Differences? Global Governance in a World of Change (co-edited with Jon Pevehouse and Kal Raustiala); and Israel and the One State Reality (co-edited with Nathan Brown, Marc Lynch, and Shibley Telhami).