MICHAEL W. DOYLE

CAREER AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS

My career as a political scientist has combined teaching, inter-disciplinary scholarship and university and public service. I have taught at the University of Warwick (UK), Johns Hopkins and Princeton, where I directed the Center of International Studies and chaired the editorial committee of World Politics. I am a faculty member at Columbia, where I am appointed in the School of International and Public Affairs, the Law School and the Department of Political Science.

My scholarly interests have centered on three topics. I first examined issues of hegemony and empire in Empires, my revised dissertation. I next explored peace among liberal democracies in articles in Philosophy and Public Affairs and the APSR and investigated the sources of peace and war in the Realist balance of power and Socialist international solidarity in Ways of War and Peace. I joined with colleagues to explore the range of the field in New Thinking in International Relations Theory, which John Ikenberry and I edited. I then focused on peacekeeping. Drawing on field work, I examined lessons from the peace operations in Cambodia, El Salvador, Eastern Slavonia (Croatia) and Brcko (northern Bosnia), each of which I visited between 1993 and 2000. These studies were reflected in UN Peacekeeping in Cambodia and a book co-edited with Ian Johnstone and Robert Orr, Keeping the Peace. In 2000 I coauthored with Nicholas Sambanis an analysis of all civil wars since 1944, which appeared in the APSR. Nicholas and I published Making War and Building Peace, a book that combines cases and data analysis, this past summer. My current research focuses on the law, ethics and politics of preventive self-defense.

While on a public service leave, in 2001-2003, I was appointed United Nations assistant secretary-general by Secretary-General Kofi Annan. My responsibilities included strategic planning (the “Millennium Development Goals”), outreach to the international corporate sector (the “Global Compact’) and relations with Washington. I maintain a UN connection as organizer of the Global Colloquium of University Presidents and member of the Advisory Board of UNDEF (the recently established UN Democracy Fund).

STATEMENT OF VIEWS

One of the many things I have found attractive about the profession of political science is that it is a large tent that, at its best, welcomes a diversity of methodologies, encourages interdisciplinary scholarship and tolerates individuals such as myself who occasionally pursue policy interests. If elected, I would strive to preserve and enhance those valuable traditions.