Edward C. Luck
Edward
C. Luck is Director of the Center on International Organization of the School of
International and Public Affairs, Columbia University.
From 1997 to 2001, he was Founder and Executive Director of the Center
for the Study of International Organization, a research center jointly
established by the School of Law of New York University and the Woodrow Wilson
School of Public and International Affairs of Princeton University.
From 1994 to 1998 he was President Emeritus of the United Nations
Association of the USA (UNA-USA), America=s
principal center for public education on the world organization.
From December 1995 through July 1997, he played a key role in the UN
reform process as a Senior Consultant to the Department of Administration and
Management of the United Nations and as Staff Director of the General Assembly=s
Open-ended High-level Working Group on the Strengthening of the United Nations
System.
From
1984 to 1994, Dr. Luck served as President and CEO of the United Nations
Association. From 1974 to 1984, he served the Association as Executive
Vice President, Vice President for Research and Policy Studies, and Project
Director of the UNA-USA National Policy Panel on Conventional Arms Control.
He was also a consultant to the Social Science Department of the Rand
Corporation.
A
frequent media commentator, Dr. Luck has published and testified before Congress
on arms control, defense, and foreign policy, Russian and East Asian affairs, as
well as on United Nations reform and peacekeeping.
His most recent book, Mixed Messages: American Politics and International Organization,
1919-1999, was published in October 1999 by the Brookings Institution Press
on behalf of the Century Foundation. He has edited two other books and is
co-editing with Michael W. Doyle a forthcoming volume of case studies on
compliance with international norms and regimes, International Law and
Organization: Closing the Compliance Gap.
Dr.
Luck has published scores of articles in Foreign
Policy, the Washington Quarterly, Current
History, Disarmament, the American Journal of International Law, Global
Governance, International Perspectives, and other scholarly journals, as
well as in the New York Times, Washington
Post, Los Angeles Times, Christian
Science Monitor, International Herald
Tribune, USA Today, Newsday,
and other newspapers. He has also
authored numerous book chapters including, in 2001-2002: “The United States,
International Organization, and the Quest for Legitimacy,” in Stewart Patrick
and Shepard Forman, eds., Multilateralism and US Foreign Policy: Ambivalent
Engagement; “The Enforcement of Humanitarian Norms and the Politics of
Ambivalence,” in Simon Chesterman, ed., Civilians in War; “American
Exceptionalism and International Organization: Lessons from the 1990s,” in
Rosemary Foot, Neil McFarlane, and Michael Mastanduno, eds., The US and
Multilateral Organizations; “Prevention: Theory and Practice,” in Fen
Hampson and David Malone, eds., From Reaction to Conflict Prevention:
Opportunities for the UN System in the New Millennium; and
“False Choices: Unilateralism, Multilateralism, and U.S. Foreign Policy,” to
be published by the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP).
Also in 2001, “Choosing the Right End of the Telescope: Domestic
Politics and International Interventions” was prepared for the International
Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty and for Thomas G. Weiss and
Stanlake Samkange, eds., The Responsibility to Protect.
Dr. Luck holds a B.A. from Dartmouth College with High Distinction in International Relations and a series of graduate degrees from Columbia University, including an M.I.A. from the School of International Affairs, the Certificate of the Russian Institute, and M.A., M.Ph., and Ph.D. degrees in Political Science from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Century Association, and serves on several non-profit boards.