Citizenship Lecture Series

Michael Doyle

"Preventive Self-Defense"

Thursday, Oct. 19, 2006
3:30 p.m.
Mershon Center for International Security Studies
1501 Neil Ave., Columbus, OH 43201

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Michael Doyle is Harold Brown Professor of United States Foreign and Security Policy at Columbia University, with a joint-appointment at the Law School and the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA). He is an expert on comparative peacekeeping, international ethics, global governance and conflict resolution.

Before coming to Columbia, Doyle worked for two years as special advisor to U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan. He had responsibility in four areas: strategic planning; the Global Compact (the U.N.'s outreach effort to the global corporate sector); relations with the U.S. government; and relations with the global academic community. He also handled special projects, most importantly the negotiation of the Millennium Development Goals and the formulation of U.N. policy on issues of international migration.

Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Doyle was educated in France and Switzerland. He studied at the U.S. Air Force Academy for two years before transferring to Harvard, where he earned his A.B., M.A. and Ph.D. in political science.

He is a former member of the Institute for Advanced Study, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a current member of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.

Michael Doyle
Professor of U.S. Foreign and Security Policy, Columbia University;
Former Special Advisor
to U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan