Michael W. Doyle

This is an article about the university professor. For the politician from Pennsylvania, see Michael F. Doyle

Michael W. Doyle (born 1948) is an international relations scholar best known as a theorist of the liberal “democratic peace” and author of “Liberalism and World Politics,” ^[1] the 16th most cited article in the 100 year history of the American Political Science Review. He has also written widely on the comparative history of empires and the evaluation of UN peace-keeping.

He is the Harold Brown Professor of International Affairs, Law and Political Science at Columbia University - School of International and Public Affairs. He co-directs the Center on Global Governance at Columbia Law School. His most recent publication is Striking First: Preemption and Prevention in International Conflict (Princeton Press.) He is the chair of UN Democracy Fund, elected by the members and appointed by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. In 2009, he was the recipient of the Charles E. Merriam Award of the American Political Science Association, a biennial award given “to a person whose published work and career represent a significant contribution to the art of government through the application of social science research.” In 2011, he received the APSA's Hubert H. Humphrey Award "in recognition of notable public service by a political scientist."

He is married to Amy Gutmann, President of the University of Pennsylvania.

Biography

Michael W. Doyle graduated from Harvard University, where he earned his A.B., M.A. and PhD in Political Science. He also studied at the US Air Force Academy, trained as a parachutist at Ft. Benning and completed his military service in the Massachusetts Air National Guard.

Doyle has taught at the University of Warwick, Johns Hopkins University, Princeton University, and Yale Law School. At Princeton University, he directed the Center of International Studies and chaired the Editorial Board and the Committee of Editors of World Politics. He served as vice president and senior fellow of the International Peace Academy where he is now a member of its board of directors. He was also a member of the External Research Advisory Committee of the UNHCR and the Advisory Committee of the Lessons-Learned Unit of the Department of Peace-Keeping Operations (UN). He is a member of Council of Foreign Relations, New York. In 2001, he was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and, in 2009, to the American Philosophical Society.

Doyle served as Assistant Secretary-General and Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan. In the Secretary General’s Executive Office, he was responsible for strategic planning, including the Millennium Development Goals, outreach to the international corporate sector through the Global Compact, and relations with Washington. He is the former chair of the Academic Council on the United Nations System.

Kant's Perpetual Peace

In Michael Doyle's 1983 "Kant, Liberal Legacies and Foreign Affairs",^[2] Doyle builds on Immanuel Kant's views on various issues, especially noted are his views on liberal internationalism. Doyle discusses the two legacies of modern liberalism: The pacification of foreign relations among liberal states (see below) and international imprudence.

References

1. ^ Doyle, Michael W. (Dec. 1986). "Liberalism and World Politics". The American Political Science Review 80 (4): 1151–1169. doi:10.2307/1960861. JSTOR 1960861. 
2. ^ Doyle, Michael W. (1983). "Kant, Liberal Legacies and Foreign Affairs". Philosophy and Public Affairs. I and II (12)): 205–235, 323–353. 

Publications

• Ways of War and Peace: Realism, Liberalism, and Socialism (W.W. Norton)
• Empires (Cornell University Press)
• Liberal Peace: Selected Essays (Routledge)
• UN Peacekeeping in Cambodia: UNTAC’s Civil Mandate (Lynne Rienner Publishers)
• Striking First: Preemption and Prevention of International Conflict (Princeton Press)
• Making War and Building Peace (Princeton Press) with Nicholas Sambanis
• Alternatives to Monetary Disorder (Council on Foreign Relations/McGraw Hill) with Fred Hirsch and Edward Morse
• Keeping the Peace (Cambridge University Press) 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
• The Globalization of Human Rights (United Nations University Press) edited with Jean-Marc Coicaud and Anne-Marie Gardner

External links

• Member Profile, Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University
• Interview with Michael W. Doyle by Theory Talks (16-04-2008)
• Columbia Law School
• Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs
• Columbia University Department of Political Science

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