Draft:Lawrence Finkelstein

Lawrence "Larry" S. Finkelstein was a scholar of Political Science, International Relations, and African Studies. He was an early member of the United Nations Secretariat. He served with Ralph Bunche at the United Nations. He witnessed the last session of the League of Nations and the Charter of the United Nations.

Finkelstein's first wife was Dr. Marina Salvin Finkelstein, who died on 7 March, 1971.

In 1973, Finkelstein married his second wife, Non Dilliana de Bohun Tolland Finkelstein. They were married until his death in 2019.

In retirement, Finkelstein was a member of the New Hampshire Democratic Party. In 2000, he campaigned to join the New Hampshire State House of Representatives. He won the Democratic Party Nomination, unopposed, but was defeated in the General Election by Republican Party candidate Carolyn M. Gargasz.

United Nations
Finkelstein witnessed the creation of the Charter of the United Nations. Finkelstein was Dr. Ralph Bunche’s assistant at the State Department, who accompanied him to the 1945 San Francisco Conference to draft the U.N. Charter and served as his assistant when Bunche assumed directorship of the U.N. Trusteeship Division in 1946.

Finkelstein acted as Observer to the United Nations on the Mandates Question at the final session of the League of Nations.

Academic Career
Finkelstein was a Professor of Political Science. Finkelstein was Vice President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Dr. Finkelstein entered academia in 1966 as Director of the Case Institute of Technology-Western Reserve University study, piloting the strategic plan to unite the two universities as Case Western Reserve University; then as acting Dean of the Graduate School at Brandeis University, 1967-69; and Secretary of the Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, 1969-73. A natural teacher, Dr. Finkelstein enjoyed a successful academic career as Professor of Political Science at Northern Illinois University, 1973–95.

In 1995, Finkelstein created a novel formulaic approach to Global Governance called "IO Plus," which defined global governance as “all levels of human activity—from the household to the demanding public to the international organization (IO)."

He served on the Ralph Bunche Centenary Commemoration Committee.

Finkelstein was a research employee of the Institute of Pacific Relations from 1949 - 1951, and a contributor to its publications.

State Department
Finkelstein worked for the State Department.

He was suspected of being a Communist during an emergency Senate security clearance investigation in 1969, harkening back to the investigation of his mentor Dr. Bunche during the Red Scare, but was eventually cleared by the CIA.

Publications

 * Global Governance
 * The Struggle to Control UNESCO
 * Editor, Politics in the United Nations system
 * Editor, The Web of Interdependence: The United States and International Organizations, The United States and International Organization: The Changing Setting, The “Other” State Department: The United States' Mission to the United Nations—Its Role in the Making of Foreign Policy and The Peace Corps and Pax Americana

Legacy
The Lawrence S. Finkelstein Prize is awarded by the International Studies Association.