Antonia Chayes was on the faculty of the Kennedy School of Government while Vice Chair and Senior Consultant of Conflict Management Group (CMG), a non-profit international dispute resolution organization. Professor Chayes is currently a Visiting Professor of International Law and Politics at Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. She occasionally serves as mediator of corporate disputes for JAMS/ENDISPUTE, where she served for eight years. As a Board member of United Technologies Corporation for 21 years, she chaired its Public Issues Review Committee, and served on its Executive Committee until retiring in 2002. During the Carter Administration she was Assistant and later, Under Secretary of the US Air Force, where she was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal. She has served on several Federal Commissions, including the Vice President’s White House Aviation Safety and Security Commission, and the Commission on Roles and Missions of the United States Armed Forces. Chayes has also practiced law in a Boston law firm. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She serves as a consultant to the Office of Compliance, Adviser, Ombudsman of IFC and MIGA of the World Bank and serves on the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law. She is the author of a number of books and articles.
Courses Taught:
Spring 2010 DHP P 247 Civil Military Relations in Post Conflict Environments – Fletcher School, Tufts University
Fall 2009: ILO L209 – International Treaty Behavior-A Perspective on Globalization – Fletcher School, Tufts University
Spring 2008: DHP D227 – Law and Politics of International Conflict Management – Fletcher School, Tufts University
Research Interests: International treaty behavior: compliance and exceptionalism; international security and arms control, conflict resolution, peacebuilding and nation building; international organizations; nuclear strategy; nuclear weapons;
Select Publications:
Antonia Chayes. “How American Treaty Behavior Threatens National Security” in 33 International Security, 45 (2008).
Antonia Chayes and Martha Minow, eds. Imagine Coexistence: Restoring Humanity After Violent Conflict. (San Francisco, CA 2003).
Chayes and Chayes. Planning for Intervention: International Cooperation in Conflict Management. (The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 1999).
Chayes, Chayes, Arbatov, and Olson, eds. Preventing Conflict in The Former Soviet Union. (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997).
Chayes and Chayes. Preventing Conflict in the Post-Communist World: Mobilizing International and Regional Organizations. (Washington, DC: Brookings, 1996).
Chayes and George T. Raach, eds., Peace Operations: Developing and American Strategy. (Washington, DC: National Defense University Press, 1995).
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