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Tanner Lectures explore pre-emptive war, Nov. 8-9
Posted November 1, 2006; 10:31 p.m.
Michael Doyle, a leading scholar of international affairs and former
adviser to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, will deliver the annual
Tanner Lectures on Human Values at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday,
Nov. 8-9, in McCosh 50.
Doyle will address "Anticipatory Self-Defense: The Law, Ethics and
Politics of Pre-emptive and Preventive War." His first lecture will
include a critique of existing standards of pre-emptive and preventive
military actions. The second talk will focus on what the standards
should be and how they would inform judgments of key events such as the
U.S. blockade of Cuba during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, Israel's
1981 attack against Iraq's Osirak nuclear plant and the 2003 U.S.
invasion of Iraq.
Doyle is the Harold Brown Professor of International Affairs, Law and
Political Science at Columbia University and a visiting professor at
Yale Law School. His books include "Ways of War and Peace," "Empires"
and "Making War and Building Peace," a study of U.N. peacekeeping
efforts written with Nicholas Sambanis.
Doyle served as a special adviser to Annan from 2001 to 2003, with
responsibilities including strategic planning, outreach to the
international corporate sector and relations with the U.S. government.
He recently was named the secretary-general's representative on the
advisory board of the U.N. Democracy Fund.
Doyle served on the Princeton faculty from 1987 to 2003 and is the
University's Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Politics and International
Affairs Emeritus.
Two scholars will serve as commentators for each of Doyle's lectures:
Jeff MacMahan, professor of philosophy at Rutgers University, and Ruth
Wedgwood, professor of international law and diplomacy at Johns Hopkins
University, for the first; and Harold Hongju Koh, dean of Yale Law
School, and Richard Tuck, professor of government at Harvard
University, for the second.
The lectures are sponsored by the University Center for Human Values.