| 1 | Name: | Dr. Michael W. Doyle | |
| Institution: | Columbia University | ||
| Year Elected: | 2009 | ||
| Class: | 3. Social Sciences | ||
| Subdivision: | 304. Jurisprudence and Political Science | ||
| Residency: | Resident | ||
| Living? : | Living | ||
| Birth Date: | 1948 | ||
Michael W. Doyle is a University Professor of Columbia University and Director of the Columbia Global Policy Initiative. Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, he was educated in France and Switzerland and received his high school diploma from Jesuit High School, Tampa, Florida. He studied at the U.S. Air Force Academy for two years (and also qualified as a parachutist at Fort Benning) before transferring to Harvard University, where he earned his A.B., M.A. and Ph.D. (in Political Science in 1977). As an undergraduate he won the Detur Prize and was named John Harvard Scholar. As a graduate student, he held the Atherton Prize Fellowship and a Resident Tutorship in Government in Leverett House. He completed his military service in the Massachusetts Air National Guard. Professor Doyle previously has taught at the University of Warwick (United Kingdom), Johns Hopkins University, Princeton University and Yale Law School. His authored books include: (with Fred Hirsch and Edward Morse) Alternatives to Monetary Disorder (1977); Empires (1986); UN Peacekeeping in Cambodia: UNTAC's Civil Mandate (1995); Ways of War and Peace (1996); (with Nicholas Sambanis) Making War and Building Peace (2006); Striking First: Preemption and Prevention in International Conflict (2008); and The Question of Intervention (2015). He has also edited several publications, including (with Ian Johnstone and Robert Orr) Keeping the Peace: Multidimensional UN Operations in Cambodia and El Salvador (1997); (with John Ikenberry) New Thinking in International Relations Theory (1997); (with Olaru Otunnu) Peacemaking and Peacekeeping for the New Century (1998); and (with Jean-Marc Coicaud and Anne-Marie Gardner) The Globalization of Human Rights (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. He delivered the Tanner Lectures on "Anticipatory Self-Defense" at Princeton University, November 8-9, 2006. He directed the Center of International Studies at Princeton University and chaired the Editorial Board and the Committee of Editors of World Politics. He was the vice-president and senior fellow of the International Peace Academy and is now a member of its board of directors. He has also served as 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 the Council on Foreign Relations, New York. In 2001, he was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & 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 System. From 2006 to 2013 he was an individual member and the chair of the UN Democracy Fund, elected by the members and appointed by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Michael Doyle is married to Amy Gutmann. They have a daughter and son-in-law and live in Philadelphia and New York. | |||