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Date: February 21, 1997
Michael W. Doyle Appointed Director of Princeton's Center of International Studies
Princeton, N.J. -- Michael W. Doyle, professor of politics and international affairs, has been appointed director of the University's Center of International Studies in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Doyle has been a member of Princeton faculty since 1988, having returned to Princeton after teaching for three years at The Johns Hopkins University. He replaces John Waterbury and will assume his post July 1.
Doyle is an authority on U.N. peacekeeping, comparative history and international relations. He took a public service leave in 1993 and 1994 to serve as vice president of the International Peace Academy in New York City, and he remains a senior fellow at the academy.
He has written extensively on current U.N. peacekeeping efforts in Cambodia and in Bosnia. Doyle is the author of U.N. Peacekeeping in Cambodia (1995), Empires (1986), and Ways of War and Peace , to be published this year. Doyle is also the coauthor of Alternatives to Monetary Disorder and the coeditor of Escalation and Intervention.
Doyle is credited with launching the debate on the democratic-peace theory, which was the subject of two 1983 articles that were reprinted last year in Debating the Democratic Peace. Doyle wrote that the fact that no democracy had ever declared war on another was a "startling but less than fully appreciated" success of the modern era.
"Michael Doyle's appointment absolutely delights me," said Michael Rothschild, dean of the Woodrow Wilson School. "He has done path-breaking work on large intellectual issues and on the practical problems of making the world a better and more peaceful place. He will give the Center superb leadership."
Doyle received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1977 and first came to Princeton that year as an assistant professor. In 1984, he accepted a post at The Johns Hopkins University, where he was an associate professor. He returned to Princeton in 1988 and was named a full professor in 1990. Doyle has been an associate of the Center of International Studies since 1988. He has held a Ford Foundation fellowship and has been a member of the Institute for Advanced Study.
The Center of International Studies was established at Princeton in 1951 when the Institute of International Studies relocated here from Yale University. It supports scholarship relating to issues of world peace and the improvement of economic cooperation and understanding among nations.