B.A, Harvard, 1970; Ph.D. 1977.  Professor Doyle previously has taught at the University of Warwick (United Kingdom), Johns Hopkins University, Princeton University and Yale Law School.  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); Striking First: Preemption and Prevention in International Conflict (the Tanner Lectures, published by Princeton Press, 2008); 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 "Kant, Liberal Legacies, and Foreign Affairs: Parts I and II," in Philosophy and Public Affairs (1983). In 2001, he was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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 (the “Millennium Development Goals”), 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 is currently an individual member, appointed by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, and the chair of the UN Democracy Fund.  

Principal areas of publishing and teaching: international relations theory, international security, and international organizations.