Associate Professor of Public Administration and International Affairs, Maxwell School

Michael John Williams is associate professor of public administration and international affairs, director of international relations graduate programs at the Maxwell School, senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, an associate of LSE IDEAS, and editor-in chief of International Politics.

Williams is an expert on the contemporary Atlantic world (1945-present), the Cold War, NATO, U.S. foreign policy and international security. The author of three books, his most recent being Science, Law and Liberalism in the American Way of War: The Quest for Humanity in Conflict (Cambridge University Press) and the edited collection Coker at War: Strategic Thinking for Uncertain Times (Hurst & Co).

Williams has been a NATO Security Studies Fulbright Fellow at the Brussels School of Governance in Belgium; a Robert Bosch Fellow in the German Ministry of Defense, a visiting fellow at the University of Oxford's Rothermere American Institute, and a DAAD Fellow at the Bundeswehr Center for Social Science in Potsdam. During his time at the German Ministry of Defense he was special advisor to the Parliamentary State Secretary for Defense.

Williams earned an honors B.A. with distinction from the University of Delaware, an M.A. with distinction from the Humboldt Universitaet zu Berlin and a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics and Political Science.