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 
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Paul D. Williams
Associate Professor of International Affairs
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 Director of the Security Policy Studies Program. Dr. Williams is also a Non-Resident Senior Adviser at the International Peace Institute in New York and a Visiting Professor at the Institute for Peace and Security Studies at Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia. He 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.
Professor Williams currently serves on the editorial boards of two journals, African Affairs and Global Responsibility to Protect. He is also managing the Providing for Peacekeeping Project, an independent research project which analyzes how to develop more effective United Nations peacekeeping operations.
Selected Publications
- Security and Development in Global Politics: a Critical Comparison. ed with Joanna Spear (Georgetown Univ Pr, 2012)
- Security Studies: An Introduction, 2nd Edition. ed. (Routledge, 2012)
- War and Conflict in Africa (Polity, 2011)
- Understanding Peacekeeping, 2nd Edition (Polity, 2010)
- The International Politics of Mass Atrocities: The Case of Darfur (Routledge, 2010).
- British Foreign Policy under New Labour, 1997-2005 (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2005)