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Michael W. Doyle, Council 2006-08 Columbia University

Michael W. Doyle, Columbia University
Council 2006-08

Michael W. Doyle, the Harold Brown Professor of International Affairs, Law and Political Science at Columbia University.  Professor Doyle previously has taught at the University of Warwick (United Kingdom), Johns Hopkins University and Princeton University. 

His publications include Ways of War and Peace (W.W. Norton); Empires (Cornell University Press); UN Peacekeeping in Cambodia: UNTAC's Civil Mandate (Lynne Rienner Publishers); Making War and Building Peace (Princeton Press, 2006) written with Nicholas Sambanis; Alternatives to Monetary Disorder (Council on Foreign Relations/McGraw Hill) which he wrote with Fred Hirsch and Edward Morse; Keeping the Peace (Cambridge University Press) which he edited with Ian Johnstone and Robert Orr; Peacemaking and Peacekeeping for the New Century (Rowman and Littlefield) edited with Olara Otunnu; New Thinking in International Relations Theory (Westview) edited with John Ikenberry and The Globalization of Human Rights, edited with Jean-Marc Coicaud and Anne-Marie Gardner (2003).  He has also published numerous articles, chapters in books and occasional essays including "Liberalism and World Politics” in the APSR (December, 1986), one of the top 20 most cited and the second most downloaded article in the APSR.

In 2001-2003, he served as Assistant Secretary-General and Special Adviser to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan.  His responsibilities in the Secretary-General’s Executive Office included strategic planning, outreach to the international corporate sector (the “Global Compact’) and relations with Washington.  He is the former chair of the Academic Council of the United Nations Community. He has recently been named the UN Secretary-General’s representative on the Advisory Board of the UN Democracy Fund. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, New York.  In 2001, he was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.  In 2006, he held a Guggenheim Fellowship and delivered the Tanner Lectures on Human Values on the topic of preventive self-defense at Princeton University.