Dr. Michael Boyle is a Lecturer in International Relations and Research Fellow at the Centre for Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at the University of St. Andrews. His research interests range from political violence and terrorism to humanitarian intervention, peacekeeping and reconstruction of failed states. He also writes on strategic studies and American foreign policy.


Dr. Boyle holds an M.Phil and Ph.D. in International Relations from Cambridge University and an MPP from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. A graduate of La Salle University, he has interned for the U.S. Department of State and the Center for Strategic and International Studies and worked on a number of consulting projects for the Centre for Defence Studies at King's College, London. He has previously held fellowships at the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) at Stanford University and the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (BSCIA) at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Dr. Boyle was also a Fulbright fellow at the Department of International Relations at the Australian National University.


He has been a participant in a number of research institutes, including the Institute for Qualitative Methods at Arizona State University, the Summer Institute at the Solomon Asch Center for Ethnopolitical Conflict at the University of Pennsylvania and the Summer Workshop on Analysis of Military Operations and Strategy at Cornell University. He has previously taught at La Salle and Harvard universities. Dr. Boyle is an Emerging Leader of the Truman National Security Project and writes regularly for the Guardian newspaper. His columns are available at: http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/michael_boyle/


He is currently working on a book manuscript entitled The Logic of Violence in Post-Conflict States, funded by a grant from the Airey Neave Trust.

Publications

2009; M Boyle; ""Bargaining, Fear and Denial: Explaining Violence Against Civilians in Iraq 2004-2007""; Terrorism and Political Violence; 21(2):1-27

2009; M Boyle; ""Explaining Strategic Violence After Wars""; Studies in Conflict and Terrorism; 32(3):209-236

2008; M Boyle; ""Poverty and Class in the US Elections""; Renewal; 16(2):81-89

2008; M Boyle; ""Terrorism and Insurgency""; Contemporary Security and Strategy; Craig Synder (ed); Palgrave Macmillan; 170-189

2008; M Boyle; ""The War on Terror in American Grand Strategy""; International Affairs; 84(2):191-209

2008; M Boyle, J Horgan; "A Case Against Critical Terrorism Studies"; Critical Studies on Terrorism; 1(1):51-64;

2008; M Boyle; "A War in Search of a Rationale"; International Affairs; 84(5)

2007; M Boyle; "America in Denial"; International Affairs; 83(1):147-159;

2004; M Boyle; "Utopianism and the Bush Foreign Policy"; Cambridge Review of International Affairs; 17(1):81-103;

2001; M Boyle; "Defining a New Intervention Strategy for Ethnic Wars"; Kennedy School Review; 2(1):174-188;