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Michael W. Doyle is the Harold Brown Professor of International Affairs, Law and Political Science at Columbia University. He teaches in the areas of international relations and international law.

Professor Doyle previously has taught at the University of Warwick (United Kingdom), Johns Hopkins University and Princeton University. 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. Hs current research, supported by a Guggenheim Fellowship, focuses on the ethics, politics and law of anticipatory self-defense.

Representative Publications:

2006 (with Nicholas Sambanis). Making War and Building Peace. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Press.

2003 (edited with Jean-Marc Coicaud and Anne-Marie Gardner). The Globalization of Human Rights. New York: UN Publications.

1998 (edited with Olara Otunnu). Peacemaking and Peacekeeping for the New Century. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.

1997 (edited with John Ikenberry). New Thinking in International Relations Theory. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

1997 (edited with Ian Johnstone & Robert Orr). Keeping the Peace. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

1997. Ways of War and Peace. New York: W.W. Norton

1995. UN Peacekeeping in Cambodia: UNTAC's Civil Mandate. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers.

1986. Empires. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press

1983. "Kant, Liberal Legacies, and Foreign Affairs: Parts I and II." Philosophy and Public Affairs 12(3&4).

1977 (with Fred Hirsch and Edward Morse). Alternatives to Monetary Disorder. New York: Council on Foreign Relations/McGraw Hill.