FINGER, Seymour (Maxwell)

FINGER, Seymour (Maxwell). American, b. 1915. Genres: International relations/Current affairs, Politics/Government, Essays. Career: Adjunct Professor, and Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Graduate School and the College of Staten Island, City University of New York, 1985- (Professor, College of Staten Island, 1971-85; Professor, Graduate School, 1973-85). Director Emeritus, Ralph Bunche Institute on the UN, 1985- (Director, 1973-85). Adjunct Professor, New York University, NYC, 1986; Visiting Professor, Georgetown Univ, 1992-. Formerly, career officer in the US Foreign Service: Vice-Consul, Stuttgart, 1946-49; Second Secretary, American Embassy, Paris, 1949-51, American Legation, Budapest, 1951-53, and American Embassy, Rome, 1954-55; First Secretary, American Embassy, Laos, 1955-56; Sr. Adviser on Economics and Social Affairs, US Mission to the UN, 1956-65; Counselor of Mission, 1965-67; Ambassador and Sr. Adviser to the US Permanent Representative to the UN, 1967-71. Publications: Your Man at the U.N.: People, Politics and Bureaucracy in the Making of American Foreign Policy, 1980, rev. ed. as American Ambassadors at the U.N., 1986; American Jewry during the Holocaust, 1984; Bending with the Winds: Kurt Waldheim and the United Nations, 1991; Their Brother's Keepers: American Jewry and the Holocaust, 1991; Inside the World of Diplomacy, 2001. EDITOR: (and contrib.) The New World Balance and Peace in the Middle East, 1975; (with Y. Alexander) Terrorism: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 1977; (with J.R. Harbert and contrib.) U.S. Policies in International Institutions, 1978.