Dean, The Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver

Tom Farer is Dean of the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver. He is also Honorary Professor of Peking University and Vice President of the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs (APSIA). He is a former president of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and of the University of New Mexico. He has previously taught law at the schools of Columbia, Harvard, Rutgers, Tulane, and American University and international relations at American University’s School of International Service, Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies, and at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School. His books include Warclouds on the Horn of Africa (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1979), The Grand Strategy of the United States in Latin America (Transaction, 1988), Ends and Means in Central America (Plenum, 1989), Beyond Sovereignty (John Hopkins, 1995), and Transnational Crime in the Americas (Routledge, 1999). His articles have appeared in such publications as Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The New York Review of Books, The London Review of Books, World Politics, International Organization, Newsweek, The Washington Post and the International Herald Tribune. He is a member of the editorial boards of the American Journal of International Law and the Human Rights Quarterly. He has served as special assistant to the General Council of the Department of Defense, special assistant to the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, legal advisor to the UN Intervention Force in the Somali Republic, Advisor on the Ugandan Constitution, and legal advisor and self-defense instructor for the Police Force of the Somali Republic.