Oral history interview with Michael W. Doyle, 2004

Biographical Note

International Politics; Assistant Secretary General and special advisor to Secretary General Kofi Annan; Professor

Scope and Contents

Family background, education at Harvard, PhD from the University of Michigan; Air Force officer and later became a special advisor to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan; International relations scholar best known for "democratic peace"; author of "Liberalism and World Politics," written widely on the comparative history of empires and the evaluation of UN peace-keeping, wrote a policy-driven book critiquing U.S. intervention in Vietnam; speechwriter in the Defense Department, International Peace Academy (IPA) for two years; active involvement in the Global Compact Portfolio, strategic planner of 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

Subjects

• Academic Council on the United Nations System.
• Doyle, Michael W., 1948---Interviews.
• Economic development.
• Global Compact.
• International Peace Academy.
• International business enterprises--Social aspects.
• International relations.
• Interviews
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Pacific settlement of international disputes.
• Peace-building.
• Social responsibility of business.
• United Nations--Officials and employees--Interviews.
• United Nations. Secretary-General.
• Weiss, Thomas G. (Thomas George), 1946- interviewer.

Access Conditions

Copyright by the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, 2011