About Professor

Robert Weiner is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts at Boston, and an Associate at the Davis Center for Russian Studies, Harvard University. He is the author of Romanian Foreign Policy at the United Nations and Change in Eastern Europe, as well as several articles and book chapters. His most recent publication is "The United Nations and War in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries,"The New England Journal of Public Policy,Fall 2004. He is currently working on a book dealing with postcommunist Romanian foreign policy, a book on "9/11 and the International System"and a text on the United Nations in the New Millenium. He has presented over 50 papers at various scholarly conferences.He recently presented papers at meetings of the International Studies Association , the American Political Science Association,and the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. His current fields of interest include International Relations, International Organization (with special emphasis on the United Nations) Comparative Foreign Policy, and Eastern Europe.