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For Immediate Release
Jan. 3, 2000            

Overseas Intervention Opening Topic of Lawrence University Lecture
Series on International Role of U.S. in Next Century 


     APPLETON, WIS. -- The United States' role as world peacemaker in
the next century will be the opening topic of discussion in the six-part
Lawrence University lecture series entitled "Another American Century?"
     Michael Doyle, director of the Center of International Studies at
Princeton University, presents "When the U.S. Should Intervene Overseas"
Monday, Jan. 10 at 7 p.m. in Main Hall Room 109.  The event is free and
open to the public. 
     In his address, Doyle will argue for the continuation of
nonintervention as the core principle of international relations and
U.S. foreign policy.  He also will explore situations in which the U.S.
should vote in the United Nations Security Council in favor of
authorizing an intervention and discuss what rare circumstances --
collective self-defense, threatened genocide or a failure of the UN,
among others -- in which the U.S. should contemplate unilateral
intervention without UN authorization.
     The author of scores of published articles and eight books
including, "Peacemaking and Peacekeeping for the New Century" and "Ways
of War and Peace," Doyle is the former vice president of the
International Peace Academy in New York. A member of the Princeton
faculty since 1977, he was appointed director of its Center for
International Studies in 1997.  Doyle earned his bachelor's degree in
government from Harvard University and his Ph.D. in political science
from Harvard.
     Lawrence's "Another American Century?" lecture series is sponsored
by the Lt. William Kellogg Harkins Jr. Values Program and the Mojmir
Polvolny Lectureship in International Studies, which promote interest
and discussion on issues of moral significance and ethical dimensions.