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Executive Advisory Committee

Margaret P. Karns
Margaret P. Karns is a distinguished scholar of international relations with a special interest in global governance and international organizations. She is currently Visiting Professor in the PhD Program on Global Governance and Human Security at the University of Massachusetts Boston after a long career at the University of Dayton where she remains Professor Emerita of Political Science. With Karen Mingst of the University of Kentucky she has published three books: International Organizations: The Politics and Processes of Global Governance (2 nd ed., 2010; 3rd ed., 2015); The United Nations in the Post-Cold War Era (5th ed., 2016); and The United States and Multilateral Institutions: Patterns of Instrumentality and Influence (1990). She has authored or coauthored numerous articles on UN peacekeeping, post-conflict peacebuilding, global governance, and the future of the UN system. Her current research focuses on women in leadership in global governance. During 1995-96, Professor Karns was Visiting Professor of International Relations at the John Hopkins University-Nanjing University Center for Chinese and American Studies in Nanjing, China. In 1998, she taught a training course on “Multilateral Diplomacy and the United Nations System” for Vietnamese government officials at The Institute of International Relations in Hanoi. She is a past Vice President of the International Studies Association, a national member of the New York-based Council on Foreign Relations, long-time board member and past President of the Dayton Council on World Affairs, and past vice chair and board member of the Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS).