Elliott School Professors Martha Finnemore and Michael Barnett were listed as the No. 1 and No. 11 scholars, respectively, who produced the most interesting scholarship in the past five years in the 2011 Teaching, Research and International Policy (TRIP) survey, which included responses from 1,582 international relations faculty members.
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Paul D. Williams
Associate Professor of International Affairs
Associate Director, Security Policy Studies Program
Office: 1957 E Street, NW Suite 605
Phone: (202) 994-0969
Fax: (202) 994-7761
E-mail: pauldw@gwu.edu
Web: sites.google.com/site/paulwilliamsgw/
Education:
Ph.D., University of Wales, Aberystwyth
Expertise:
Conflict resolution, international peace operations, Africa's international relations, theories of international security, British foreign policy
Background:
Paul D. Williams is Associate Professor of International Affairs and Associate Director of the Security Policy Studies Program. Dr. Williams previously taught at the Universities of Aberystwyth, Birmingham, and Warwick in the United Kingdom and has been a Visiting Scholar at Georgetown University and the University of Queensland, Australia. He has also served as a Visiting Professor at the Institute for Peace and Security Studies at Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia.
Selected Publications
- Security and Development in Global Politics: a Critical Comparison. ed with Joanna Spear (Georgetown Univ Pr, 2012)
- War and Conflict in Africa (Polity, 2011)
- Understanding Peacekeeping (Polity, 2nd ed., 2010)
- The International Politics of Mass Atrocities: The Case of Darfur (Routledge, 2010).
- Security Studies: An Introduction (Routledge, 2008)
- British Foreign Policy under New Labour, 1997-2005 (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2005)
Professor Williams currently serves on the editorial boards of two journals, African Affairs and Global Responsibility to Protect.