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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 is the Harold Brown Professor of U.S. Foreign and Security Policy in the Department of International and Public Affairs at Columbia Law School and in the Political Science Department. He specializes in international relations theory, international security, and international organizations.
Prior to his arrival at Columbia, Doyle served as assistant secretary-general and special adviser to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan from 2001 to 2003. His responsibilities included strategic planning (the "Millennium Department 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: Princeton University Press, 2006) and Striking First: Preemption and Prevention in International Conflict (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008).
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 Community. He has also been a senior fellow and a member of the Board of Directors of the International Peace Academy since 1996. In 2001, he was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He currently serves as chair and a member of the board of UNDEF (the UN Democracy Fund).
Doyle holds a BA from Harvard College (1970) and an MA (1972) and PhD (1977) from Harvard University.
Research Interests: International Relations Theory, Foreign Policy, Security