Michael Fowler
Professor Department of Political Science EDUCATION
J.D., Harvard Law School, 1986
M.A., University of Virginia, Foreign Affairs, 1985
B.A., Dartmouth College, 1982
ACADEMIC JOB EXPERIENCE
Professor, University of Louisville July 2009 – present
Associate Professor of Political Science, 2005‐2009 Director, Muhammad Ali Institute for Peacemaking and Conflict Resolution, 2000‐2005 Visiting Professor to Japan, Fulbright Scholar (Lecturer) 2005-06
Visiting Professor, University of Colima, Mexico, 2005
Associate Professor of Law, Brandeis School of Law, 2000 – 2002 Visiting Professor, University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan, 1999-2000
Visiting Assistant Professor of Law and Political Science, 1996‐99
Fulbright Scholar Lecturer, 1992-93.
Visiting Professor - Southeast Asia, George Washington University, 1995, 2002-03, 2006
Lecturer: University of Louisville, 1994
Lecturer, Georgetown University and George Washington University, 1993-94, 1996
Lecturer, University of Virginia, 1990-91
Lecturer, Tufts University, 1989
Research Fellow to Central America: Institute for the Study of World Politics (1989-90).
COURSES TAUGHT (2005-2009)
POLS 331
POLS 332
POLS 337
POLS 495
POLS 506
POLS 530
POLS 640
POLS 691
International Organization
Honors Seminar: International Law
Law, Diplomacy and Power
International Law
Honors Seminar, Coping with Conflict
International Negotiation
International Negotiation
International Organization
RESEARCH DISSEMINATION
Books:
Envisioning Reform: Enhancing UN Accountability in the Twenty-first Century, edited by Sumihiro
Kuyama and Michael Fowler, Tokyo, New York, Paris: United Nations University Press, 2009, 380 pp. edited fourteen-chapter book, contributed by scholars around the world, analyzing the accountability of
the United Nations and making recommendations for reform.
Other Publications:
Michael R. Fowler, Culture and Negotiation: The Pedagogical Dispute Regarding Cross-Cultural
Simulations, INTERNATIONAL STUDIES PERSPECTIVES 10 (2009): 341-359.
Michael R. Fowler, Bringing the different United Nations to account, in ENVISIONING REFORM:
ENHANCING UN ACCOUNTABILITY IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY, eds. Michael R. Fowler and
Sumihiro Kuyama (Tokyo, New York, Paris: United Nations University Press, 2009), pp. 37-72.
Sumihiro Kuyama and Michael R. Fowler, Introduction, in ENVISIONING REFORM: ENHANCING U.N.
ACCOUNTABILITY IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY, eds. Michael R. Fowler and Sumihiro Kuyama
(Tokyo, New York, Paris: United Nations University Press, 2009), pp. 1-18.
Michael R. Fowler and Sumihiro Kuyama, Conclusion, in ENVISIONING REFORM: ENHANCING U.N.
ACCOUNTABILITY IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY, eds. Michael R. Fowler and Sumihiro Kuyama
(Tokyo, New York, Paris: United Nations University Press, 2009), pp. 327-342.
Pauline Tennent, Jessica Senehi, Michael R. Fowler, and Sean Byrne, The Six University Consortium
Student Mobility Project: Promoting Conflict Resolution in the North American Context, PEACE AND
CONFLICT STUDIES, 15, 2 (Winter 2008/9): 15-37.
Michael R. Fowler and Julie Bunck, In memoriam: John Hugh (Adam) Watson, C.M.G., PS: POLITICAL
SCIENCE, 41, 1 (January 2008): 230-231
Michael Ross Fowler, The Relevance of Principled Negotiation to Hostage Crises, HARVARD
NEGOTIATION LAW REVIEW 12 (Spring 2007): 251-318.
Michael Fowler and Sumihiro Kuyama, Accountability and the United Nations System, POLICY BRIEF
UNITED NATIONS UNIVERSITY 8 (2007): 1-8.
Michael R. Fowler, Transplanting Active-Learning Teaching Methods Abroad: Finding a Cross-Cultural
Pedagogy that Works, INTERNATIONAL STUDIES PERSPECTIVES, 6 (2005): 155-173.
Selected Papers, Lectures, and Conferences:
“Introduction to the ‘Rule of Law,’” roundtable on “The Rule of Law in the American Legal System in
the Open World Program,” World Affairs Council of Kentucky and Southern Indiana and Department of
Justice Administration, University of Louisville, April 28, 2008.
“Central American Narcotics Trafficking and Corruption: Anatomy of a Non-traditional Security Threat,”
Bond University, Gold Coast, Australia, November 27, 2007.
“American Foreign Policy After 9/11,” Bond University, Gold Coast, Australia, November 19, 2007.
“Teaching International Relations in China and Japan,” Kentucky Asian Studies Association 2007 Annual
Meeting, University of Louisville, October 6, 2007.
“United Nations Accountability: Problems and Prospects,” United Nations Association, Louisville,
Kentucky, April 10, 2007.
“Exchange in the Realm of Pedagogy: The Role of Cultural Differences in Teaching Negotiation,”
International Studies Association Conference, Chicago, March 2, 2007.
“Accountability in the United Nations System,” United Nations University, Tokyo, Japan, October 16,
2006.
“The Social Consequences of International Drug Trafficking in Central America,” Center for Social
Research, Universidad de Colima, Colima, Mexico, January 13, 2006.
GRANT ACTIVITY
Project Director, Project on Vietnam and Laos, for Center for Asian Democracy, S-ECAAE-06-GR164(CS). Led an intensive two-week training program in negotiation for Vietnamese officials at the
Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Hanoi, Vietnam, the auspices of the
CAD and the U.S. State Department, October 3 through October 17, 2008, and led an intensive two-week
training program in negotiation for Laotian officials at the Institute of Foreign Affairs of the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs, Vientiane, Laos, under the auspices of the CAD and the U.S. State Department, May 12
to May 23, 2008.
Led an intensive two-week training program in how to teach negotiation by active-learning methods for
26 university professors from across China at the Chinese Foreign Affairs University, Beijing, China,
under the auspices of the Ford Foundation and the Program for International Studies in Asia, August 1327, 2006.