Gene Lyons is the Orvil Dryfoos Professor of Public Affairs and Professor of Government Emeritus. He has served with the National Research Council and UNESCO and been a visiting professor at the University of Paris (Sorbonne). He has written widely on the role and development of international organizations in international affairs, coediting most recently Beyond Westphalia: State Sovereignty and International Intervention (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995) and The United Nations System: the Policies of the Member States (United Nations University Press, 1995.) In 2003 he coedited and contributed to International Human Rights in the 21st Century: Protecting the Rights of Groups (Rowman and Littlefield). He is currently at work on a study of the limits of international cooperation. From 1995-97 he served as acting Director of the Dickey Center.