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Michael Doyle
International Affairs Building, Room 1314
Harold Brown Professor of United States Foreign and Security Policy at SIPA, Columbia School of Law and the Political Science Department
Phone: 212-854-3061
michael.doyle@sipa.columbia.edu
md2221@columbia.edu
Biography:
Michael Doyle specializes in international relations theory, international security, and international organizations.
Doyle previously served as assistant secretary-general and special adviser to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan from 2001 to 2003. His responsibilities included strategic planning (Millennium Development Goals), outreach to the international corporate sector (the Global Compact), and relations with Washington.
His recent publications include Making War and Building Peace: United Nations Peace Operations, with Nicholas Sambanis (Princeton University Press, 2006), Striking First: Preemption and Prevention in International Conflict (Princeton University Press, 2008), and Liberal Peace: Selected Essays (Routledge, 2011).
Doyle has been a member of the Council on Foreign Relations since 1992 and is the former chair of the Academic Council of the United Nations System. He has also been a senior fellow and a member of the Board of Directors of the International Peace Institute since 1996. In 2001, he was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and, in 2009, to the American Philosophical Society. He currently serves as chair of the board of UNDEF (the UN Democracy Fund).
Doyle holds a B.A. from Harvard College (1970), and an M.A. (1972) and Ph.D. (1977) from Harvard University.
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