CHARLES F. DORAN is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of International Relations, Chair of the International Relations Committee that oversees the International Relations field, Director of the Global Theory and History Program, and Director of the Center of Canadian Studies (within the new Western Hemisphere Field) 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 (AB History and Science 1964), Johns Hopkins SAIS (MA International Relations 1966), and Johns Hopkins University (PhD Political Science 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 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 government and firm. He is a regular adviser to business and government. Over 1300 assessments for the press include Today Show, CNN, MSNBC, Jim Lehrer show, New York Times, Time.

His first book The Politics of Assimilation: Hegemony and Its Aftermath (1971) developed the “power cycle” theory of state rise and decline (shifting tides of history) as cause of major war. Empirical tests and theoretical extensions appeared in American Political Science Review (1980), International Studies Quarterly (1983), Journal of Conflict Resolution (1989), International Studies Review (1999), and several volumes devoted to power, systems change, and major war (1983-99). A complete theoretical statement with strategic policy implications is Systems in Crisis: New Imperatives of High Politics at Century’s End (Cambridge University Press, 1991). An entire issue of the International Political Science Review (January, 2003, 1) is devoted to power cycle theory.

Other representative works spanning three decades are on deterrence (J. Conflict Resolution 1973), US aid and instability (Orbis 1978), multiple jurisdictions regarding the law of the sea (Vanderbilt J. Transnational Law 1974), oil politics and energy policy (Myth, Oil and Politics, Free Press, 1977), power and threat perceptions (Brit.J.Intl. Studies 1979), OPEC structure, cohesion and leadership (J.Politics 1980, J.Policy Modeling 1989; Congressional briefings/ testimony), North American and European security policy (Peace and Security 1987; Ogdensburg 50 th Anniversary Address 1990); Gulf security (The Gulf, Energy, and Global Security 1991; briefings/testimony 1990-91); Asian power cycles and security (Social Science and Policy Research 1991; The Changing Order in NE Asia and the Korean Peninsula 1993). Doran pioneered work in political risk analysis.

Books on Canada-US relations and North American economics and trade include Forgotten Partnership (1984), The NAFTA Puzzle: Political Parties and Trade in North America (1994), and Why Canadian Unity Matters and Why Americans Care: Democratic Pluralism at Risk (2001).

Doran directed a multi-year project on Persian Gulf energy security at the Middle East Institute (MacArthur Fndn. 1988-91), and a project on North American free trade for the Foreign Policy Institute (Donner Fndn. 1990-91). He co-directed a project on Canada-US relations (Council on Foreign Relations and American Assembly 1985), and a project on German and Japan as factors in US global strategy (ACLS/DAAD 1993-94). In 1985-86, he held the Claude T. Bissell Chair at the University of Toronto. A symposium on Doran’s power cycle theory was held in November 2002 at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, India. In January 2001, Doran delivered a series of lectures at the Sorbonne (Paris I). In 2004, he gave the Alistair Buchan Club Lecture, Oxford University.

Doran was elected to the Council on Foreign Relations, the Canadian-American and North American Committees, the Cosmos Club (for “meritorious original work”), and the Board of Directors of the Business Fund for Canadian Studies in the United States (the only non-corporate official). Board of Advisors, Glendon College, 2003-2007. He was 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), the Governor General’s International Award for Canadian Studies (1999), the highest honor given to a scholar in the field, and the Distinguished Scholar Award (Foreign Policy) from the International Studies Association (2006). In 2007, he was a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University.

Who’s Who in America . Who’s Who in the World. He is president of the Brickyard Road Citizens Association, a civic organization that was instrumental in the creation of an eight acre park inside the boundaries of Potomac, MD. He and Dr. Barbara Giusti Doran have four children.