Michael J. Butler

Michael J. Butler is an Associate Professor of International Relations and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Clark University (Worcester, Massachusetts, USA). He is the author, co-author, or editor of six books including Reconstructing the Responsibility to Protect: From Humanitarian Intervention to Human Security (2024), Global Politics (2023), Securitization Revisited: Contemporary Applications and Insights (2019), Selling a ‘Just’ War: Framing, Legitimacy, and U.S. Military Intervention (2012); and International Conflict Management (2009). His research has appeared in leading academic journals including International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Global Security Studies, Global Policy, International Studies Review, International Studies Perspectives, International Negotiation, the Canadian Journal of Political Science, International Journal of Conflict Management, Global Change, Peace, and Security, and Global Responsibility to Protect.

Butler is a member of the Government of Sweden's Folke Bernadotte Academy International Working Group on Dialogue, Peace Mediation, and Peace Processes, a Senior Fellow at the University of Toronto's Canadian Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, and an affiliate with the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study. His commentary on international affairs has appeared in numerous media outlets including ABC News, CNN, Reuters, Newsweek, Foreign Policy, USA Today, Voice of America, the Sydney Morning Herald (Australia), Correio Braziliense (Brazil), CBC (Canada), Expresso (Portugal), Business Times (Singapore), and the Korea Times (South Korea).

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