Director: Anthony Clark Arend
Anthony Clark Arend is Director of the Master of Science in Foreign Service in the Walsh School of Foreign Service and Professor of Government and Foreign Service at Georgetown University. With Professor Christopher C. Joyner, he founded the Institute for International Law & Politics at Georgetown and served as co-director of the Institute from 2003-2008. His is also an adjunct professor of law at the Georgetown University Law Center. Prior to coming to Georgetown, he was a Senior Fellow at the Center for National Security Law at the University of Virginia School of Law. He has also served as an Articles Editor for the Virginia Journal of International Law.
Dr. Arend's teaching interests are in the areas of international law, international organization, international relations, international legal philosophy, and constitutional law of United States foreign relations. Arend is the author, co-author, or co-editor of several books, including: Legal Rules and International Society; International Rules (with Robert J. Beck and Robert Vander Lugt);
International Law and the Use of Force: Beyond the United Nations Charter Paradigm (with Robert J. Beck); Pursuing a Just and Durable Peace: John Foster Dulles and International Organization; The Falklands War: Lessons for Strategy, Diplomacy, and International Law (with Alberto R. Coll). He has also written articles in numerous journals.
Dr. Arend received a Ph.D. and an M.A. in Foreign Affairs from the Woodrow Wilson Department of Government and Foreign Affairs of the University of Virginia. He received a B.S.F.S., magna cum laude, from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.
He edits the blog, Exploring International Law and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Upcoming SFS Events
- Sep 3, 6pm-8pm: Discussions with STIA Alumni
- Sep 4, 12:15pm: Information Session: Graduate Certificate in Asian Studies
- Sep 4, 1pm-3pm: International Development Orientation Session