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The Hubert H. Humphrey Award is presented each year in recognition of notable public service by a political scientist. Recipient: Michael Doyle, Columbia University Citation: Doyle is the Harold Brown Professor of U.S. Foreign and Security Policy, which is a three-fold appointment in the School of International and Public Affairs, the Department of Political Science, and the Law School. He is well known as a political scientist for his writing and research on international relations theory, the liberal peace, international law, and international history; civil wars and international peace-building; and the United Nations. He is the author of numerous scholarly works, including Ways of War and Peace: Realism, Liberalism, and Socialism (W.W. Norton); Empires (Cornell University Press); UN Peacekeeping in Cambodia: UNTAC’s Civil Mandate (Lynne Rienner Publishers); Striking First: Preemption and Prevention in International Conflict (Princeton University Press); and, with Nicholas Sambanis, Making War and Building Peace (Princeton University Press). In 2009, Doyle received the Charles E. Merriam Award from the American Political Science Association. The award is given biennially “to a person whose published work and career represent a significant contribution to the art of government through the application of social science research.” That award recognized the impact of his scholarly work on issues of public policy. In awarding him the H.H. Humphrey Award, APSA acknowledges Doyle’s own public service, in particular to the United Nations and affiliated organizations. From 1993 to 1994, Doyle was Vice President and Senior Fellow of the International Peace Academy (now known as the International Peace Institute), on whose board he continues to sit. Most notably, Doyle served as Assistant Secretary-General and Special Adviser to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan from 2001 to 2003. His responsibilities included strategic planning on progress toward meeting the UN’s Millennium Development Goals: the commitment of member states to reach eight goals, including progress to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger (for example by halving the number of people living on less than $1 a day), to achieve universal primary education, to promote gender equality and empower women, to reduce child mortality rates, and improve maternal health, to combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases, to ensure environmental stability, and to develop a global partnership for development. During his tenure as Assistant Secretary-General, Doyle also worked on relations with Washington, and on outreach to the international corporate sector through the “Global Compact,” a UN initiative to encourage businesses worldwide to adopt sustainable and socially responsible policies in the areas of human rights, labor, the environment, and anti-corruption; and to report on More recently, Doyle has continued his work with the UN by serving as an individual member of the UN Democracy Fund, which was established in 2005 by the UN General Assembly to promote grass-roots democratization around the world. Doyle currently serves as the organization’s chair. He has also served as a member of the External Research Advisory Committee of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR); the Advisory Committee of the Lessons-Learned Unit of the UN’s Department of Peace-Keeping Operations (UNDPKO); and as Chair of Academic Council on the United Nations System. The nominating committee applauds his rare combination of distinguished scholarship on, and dedicated public service to, the international community. He serves as an inspiring example for political scientists everywhere, of every subfield, as well as for those who would join our ranks. And those who know him speak of him as one of the smartest, nicest, most responsible and modest people; in other words, a great guy to have on your team.
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