Charles F. Doran

Charles F. Doran is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of International Relations, chair of the International Relations Committee, director of the Global Theory and History Program, and director of the Center of Canadian Studies at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C.  He is also a senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Doran was educated at Harvard University (A.B., 1964), Johns Hopkins SAIS (M.A., 1966), and Johns Hopkins University (Ph.D., 1969). Before joining the SAIS faculty in 1979, he taught as assistant through full professor at Rice University for nine years, establishing and directing an international management program. Doran is the author of more than 100 refereed articles and books in international politics and political economy. His research encompasses security policy, conflict analysis, and commercial, environmental, and energy research issues, assessing costs and options facing governments and firms. He is a regular adviser to business and government. Over 1,300 assessments for the press include the Today Show, CNN, MSNBC, the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, the New York Times, and Time. His many books include The Politics of Assimilation: Hegemony and Its Aftermath (Johns Hopkins, 1971), Myth, Oil, and Politics (Free Press, 1977), Forgotten Partnership: U.S.-Canada Relations Today (Johns Hopkins, 1984), Systems in Crisis: New Imperatives of High Politics at Century’s End (Cambridge, 1991), and Why Canadian Unity Matters and Why Americans Care: Democratic Pluralism at Risk (Toronto, 2001). Doran is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Canadian-American and North American Committees, the Cosmos Club (for “meritorious original work”), the Board of Directors of the Business Fund for Canadian Studies in the United States, and the Board of Advisers of Glendon College. He is a past president of the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States and a member of the Standing Committee on the Western Hemisphere of the Atlantic Council. Doran was awarded the Donner Medal for distinguished scholarship in Canadian Studies (1991) and the Governor General’s International Award for Canadian Studies (1999), the highest honor given to a scholar in the field. He received the Distinguished Scholar Award (Foreign Policy) from the International Studies Association in 2006. In 2007, he was a visiting scholar at Harvard University.