Michael W. Doyle

{{Other uses|Michael Doyle (disambiguation){{!}}Michael Doyle}}

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Michael W. Doyle (born 1948{{citation needed|date=June 2023|reason=Although existing citations a place of birth, none mentions a date or year of birth}}) is an American international relations scholar who is a theorist of the liberal "democratic peace" and author of Liberalism and World Politics.{{cite journal|doi=10.2307/1960861|first=Michael W.|last=Doyle|title=Liberalism and World Politics|journal=The American Political Science Review|volume=80|issue=4|date=Dec 1986|pages=1151–1169|jstor=1960861|s2cid=145154148 }} He has also written on the comparative history of empires and the evaluation of UN peace-keeping. He is a University professor of International Affairs, Law and Political Science at Columbia University - School of International and Public Affairs.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Michael W. Doyle {{!}} Columbia SIPA|url=https://sipa.columbia.edu/faculty-research/faculty-directory/michael-doyle|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=}} He is the former director of Columbia Global Policy Initiative. He co-directs the Center on Global Governance at Columbia Law School.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Center's Team {{!}} Center on Global Governance|url=https://global-governance.law.columbia.edu/content/centers-team|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=}}

Early life

Michael W. Doyle was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, and graduated from Jesuit High School in Tampa, FL{{cite web |url=http://www.aapss.org/academy-fellows/fellows-a-z/michael-doyle-1 |title=AAPSS : Fellows A-Z |access-date=March 25, 2017 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151006215902/http://www.aapss.org/academy-fellows/fellows-a-z/michael-doyle-1 |archive-date=October 6, 2015 }} He earned his AB, AM, and PhD in political science, all from Harvard University.{{Cite web|date=August 8, 2016|title=Michael Doyle|url=https://www.aapss.org/fellow/michael-doyle/|access-date=July 28, 2020|website=AAPSS|language=en-US}}

Career

Doyle has taught at the University of Warwick, Johns Hopkins University, Princeton University, and Yale Law School.{{Cite web|title=Michael W. Doyle|url=https://www.weforum.org/people/michael-w-doyle/|access-date=July 28, 2020|website=World Economic Forum|language=en}} At Princeton University, he directed the Center of International Studies and chaired the editorial board and the Committee of Editors of World Politics.{{Cite web|title=Michael W. Doyle {{!}} Princeton Politics|url=https://politics.princeton.edu/people/michael-w-doyle|access-date=July 28, 2020|website=politics.princeton.edu}} He has long been a member and is the former chair of the board of the International Peace Institute. He was also 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 Council of Foreign Relations, New York.{{Cite web|title=Council on Foreign Relations|url=https://www.cfr.org/membership/roster|access-date=July 28, 2020|website=Council on Foreign Relations|language=en}}

=Kant's Perpetual Peace=

In his 1983 essay Kant, Liberal Legacies and Foreign Affairs,{{cite journal|first=Michael W.|url=http://www.politics.ubc.ca/fileadmin/user_upload/poli_sci/Faculty/price/Debating_the_Democratic_Peace__Doyle.pdf|last=Doyle|title=Kant, Liberal Legacies and Foreign Affairs|journal=Philosophy and Public Affairs|year=1983|issue=12|pages=205–235, 323–353|volume=and II|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140216082244/http://www.politics.ubc.ca/fileadmin/user_upload/poli_sci/Faculty/price/Debating_the_Democratic_Peace__Doyle.pdf|archive-date=February 16, 2014}} Doyle builds on Immanuel Kant's views on various issues; especially noted are his views on liberal internationalism. Doyle discusses the two legacies of modern liberalism: the pacification of foreign relations among liberal states (see below) and international imprudence.

=Awards and honors=

In 2001, Doyle was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences{{Cite web|title=Michael W. Doyle|url=https://www.amacad.org/person/michael-w-doyle|access-date=July 28, 2020|website=American Academy of Arts & Sciences|language=en}} and, in 2009, to the American Philosophical Society.{{Cite web|title=APS Member History|url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=michael%20doyle;smode=advanced;f1-mem=Resident|access-date=July 28, 2020|website=search.amphilsoc.org}} In 2009, he received the American Political Science Association's Charles E. Merriam Award, which is biennially given to "a person whose published work and career represent a significant contribution to the art of government through the application of social science research."{{Cite journal|date=October 2011|title=Gazette|journal=PS: Political Science & Politics|language=en|volume=44|issue=4|pages=885–898|doi=10.1017/S1049096511001582|issn=1537-5935|doi-access=free}} In 2011, Doyle received the Hubert H. Humphrey Award from the American Political Science Association for "notable public service by a political scientist."{{Cite journal|date=October 2011|title=Gazette|journal=PS: Political Science & Politics|language=en|volume=44|issue=4|pages=885–898|doi=10.1017/S1049096511001582|issn=1537-5935|doi-access=free}} In 2012, he was named the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.{{Cite web|date=August 8, 2016|title=Michael Doyle|url=https://www.aapss.org/fellow/michael-doyle/|access-date=July 28, 2020|website=AAPSS|language=en-US}} In 2014, he received an honorary degree from the University of Warwick.{{Cite web|title=Michael W. Doyle, creator of Doyle's Law, discusses the history of international relations, liberalism and world politics|url=http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/expertcomment/michael_w_doyle_creator_doyles_law_history_international_relations_liberalism_world_politics|access-date=July 28, 2020|website=University of Warwick|language=en-GB}}

=Public service=

Doyle served as Assistant Secretary-General and Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan.{{Cite news|last=Gladstone|first=Rick|date=February 19, 2019|title=America's U.N. Ambassador Post Is Empty. Is That a Problem?|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/19/world/americas/us-un-ambassador-empty.html|access-date=July 28, 2020|issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite web|title=Who Is The New U.N. Secretary-General?|url=https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2016/10/06/new-un-secretary-general|access-date=July 28, 2020|website=www.wbur.org|language=en}} In the Secretary General's Executive Office, he was responsible for strategic planning, including the Millennium Development Goals, outreach to the international corporate sector through the Global Compact, and relations with Washington. He is the former chair of the Academic Council on the United Nations System.

He was also the chair of United Nations Democracy Fund{{cite web|url=https://www.un.org/democracyfund/|title=UNDEF}} from 2007 to 2013, elected by the members and appointed by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

= Model International Mobility Convention =

As the director of the Columbia Global Policy Initiative's,{{Cite web|url=http://globalpolicy.columbia.edu/projects/international-migration|title=International Migration|last=|first=|date=|website=globalpolicy.columbia.edu |access-date=}} Doyle convened the group of experts who developed the Model International Mobility Convention.{{Cite web|url=http://globalpolicy.columbia.edu/mobility-convention|title=Model International Mobility Convention|last=|first=|date=August 25, 2017|website=Columbia Global Policy Initiative|access-date=}}

Now a Carnegie Council project, MIMC is building a Network that will encourage support for and develop the convention in order to address emerging international mobility challenges, including pandemic disease and climate stress.{{Cite web |url=https://www.carnegiecouncil.org/|title=Carngie Council}}

The Model International Mobility Convention fills a gap in international law by covering the multiple forms of international mobility, ranging from visitors through labor migrants to forced migrants and refugees. It proposes a comprehensive framework for international mobility with the goal of establishing a cumulative set of rights afforded to internationally mobile people (and the corresponding rights and responsibilities of states).{{Cite news|url=http://jtl.columbia.edu/model-international-mobility-convention/|title=Model International Mobility Convention|date=December 13, 2017|work=Columbia Journal of Transnational Law|access-date=January 17, 2018|language=en-US}}

Personal life

Doyle is married to Amy Gutmann, US Ambassador to Germany and the former President of the University of Pennsylvania.{{Cite web|title=Meet President Gutmann {{!}} Penn Office of the President|url=https://president.upenn.edu/node/3|access-date=July 28, 2020|website=president.upenn.edu|language=en}}{{Cite news |last=Bennhold |first=Katrin |date=June 24, 2022 |title=Her Father Fled the Nazis. She's the New U.S. Ambassador to Germany. |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/24/world/europe/germany-ambassador-amy-gutmann.html |access-date=August 17, 2022 |issn=0362-4331}} Their daughter, Abigail Doyle, is a professor of chemistry at UCLA.{{cite web|url=https://chemistry.princeton.edu/faculty/doyle|title=Princeton University Department of Chemistry Abigail Doyle}}

References

Publications

Cold Peace: Avoiding the New Cold War (W.W. Norton, 2023)
The Question of Intervention: John Stuart Mill and the Responsibility to Protect (Yale Press, 2015)
Liberal Peace: Selected Essays (Routledge, 2011)
[https://archive.org/details/strikingfirstpre0000doyl Striking First: Preemption and Prevention of International Conflict] (Princeton Press, 2008)
Making War and Building Peace: United Nations peace operations (Princeton Press, 2006) with Nicholas Sambanis
The Globalization of Human Rights (United Nations University Press, 2003) edited with Jean-Marc Coicaud and Anne-Marie Gardner
Peacemaking and Peacekeeping for the New Century (Rowman and Littlefield, 1998) edited with Olara Otunnu
[https://archive.org/details/newthinkinginint0000unse New Thinking in International Relations Theory] (Westview, 1997) edited with John Ikenberry
[https://archive.org/details/waysofwarpeacere0000doyl Ways of War and Peace: Realism, Liberalism, and Socialism] (W.W. Norton, 1997)
[https://archive.org/details/keepingpeacemult0000unse Keeping the Peace] (Cambridge University Press, 1997) edited with Ian Johnstone and Robert Orr
UN Peacekeeping in Cambodia: UNTAC's Civil Mandate (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1995)
[https://archive.org/details/empires0000doyl Empires] (Cornell University Press, 1986)
[https://archive.org/details/alternativestomo0000hirs/mode/2up Alternatives to Monetary Disorder] (Council on Foreign Relations/McGraw Hill, 1977) with Fred Hirsch and Edward Morse

External links

[https://web.archive.org/web/20100605152528/http://cgt.columbia.edu/about/committee/doyle_michael/ Member Profile, Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University]
[http://www.theory-talks.org/2008/04/theory-talk-1.html Interview with Michael W. Doyle by Theory Talks (16 Apr 2008)]
[https://foreignpolicy.com/2009/10/26/one-world-rival-theories/ Article with Michael W. Doyle by Foreign Policy, "One World, Rival Theories" (26 Oct 2009)]
[http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/expertcomment/michael_w_doyle_creator_doyles_law_history_international_relations_liberalism_world_politics Interview with Michael W. Doyle on the background of “Doyle’s Law” given on the occasion of receiving an honorary degree from the University of Warwick (Jul 2014)]
[http://www.law.columbia.edu/media_inquiries/news_events/2015/september2015/model-mobility-treaty-2015 Article with Michael W. Doyle by Columbia Law School, "Professor Michael Doyle Calls Upon Students for Assistance in Creating a Model International Mobility Treaty" (1 Sep 2015)]
[http://news.columbia.edu/content/michael-doyle-brings-diverse-experts-together-solve-global-policy-problems Interview with Michael W. Doyle by Columbia News, "Michael Doyle Brings Diverse Experts Together to Solve Global Policy Problems" (15 Oct 2015)]
[https://www.c-span.org/video/?404886-1/the-question-intervention Video with Michael W. Doyle by C-SPAN, "The Question of Intervention," (18 Feb 2016)]

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