Portrait of Dr. Thomas Earl Doyle II

Dr. Thomas Earl Doyle II

  • Professor at Political Science, College of Liberal Arts

Scholarly and Creative Works

2022

  • Doyle, T. E. (2022, August 5). Why are nuclear weapons so hard to get rid of? Because they’re tied up in nuclear countries’ sense of right and wrong. The Conversation. Boston, MA, United States. Retrieved from https://theconversation.com/why-are-nuclear-weapons-so-hard-to-get-rid-of-because-theyre-tied-up-in-nuclear-countries-sense-of-right-and-wrong-187835
  • Doyle, T. E. (2022). Preserving the Nuclear Taboo after a Nuclear First-Use Event: A Nuclear Ethical Analysis. The Nonproliferation Review, 27(4). https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1080/10736700.2022.2065124

2020

  • Doyle, T. E. (2020). Contemporary Nuclear Deterrence Dynamics and the Question of Ceding Humanity. In S. C. Roach & A. E. Eckert (Eds.), Moral Responsibility in Twenty-First-Century Warfare: Just War Theory and the Ethical Challenges of Autonomous Weapons Systems (pp. 75–104). New York, NY, US: State University of New York (SUNY) Press.
  • Doyle, T. E. (2020). Nuclear Ethics for the 21st Century: Survival, Order, Justice. Lanham, MD, USA: Rowman and Littlefield.
  • Doyle, T. E. (2020). Morally Justified Responses to North Korean Nuclear First Use: Reflections on the Nuclear Taboo. In E. Hahn, J. Scouras, R. Leonard, & C. Spencer (Eds.), Responding to North Korean Nuclear First Use: Minimizing Damage to the Nuclear Taboo (pp. 9–12). Baltimore, MD, USA: The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. Retrieved from https://www.jhuapl.edu/Content/documents/NuclearTabooWorkshop.pdf

2017

  • Doyle, T. E., Mihalkanin, E., & Gorman, R. (2017). Historical Dictionary of Human Rights and Humanitarian Organizations. Lanham, Maryland: The Scarecrow Press, Inc.
  • Doyle, T. E. (2017). Hiroshima and the Paradoxes of Japanese Nuclear Perplexity. In N. A. J. Taylor & R. Jacobs (Eds.), Reimagining Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Nuclear Humanities in the Post-Cold War World (pp. 139–155). New York, NY, USA: Routledge. Retrieved from https://www.routledge.com/Reimagining-Hiroshima-and-Nagasaki-Nuclear-Humanities-in-the-Post-Cold/Taylor-Jacobs/p/book/9780367667542
  • Doyle, T. E. (2017, July 29). Review of John Kierulf’s Disarmament under International Law. H-Diplo, H-Net Reviews. Retrieved from https://networks.h-net.org/node/28443/reviews/188970/doyle-ii-kierulf-disarmament-under-international-law.
  • Doyle, T. E. (2017). A Moral Argument for the Mass Defection of Non-Nuclear-Weapon States from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty Regime. Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organization, 23(1), 15–26.

2015

  • Doyle, T. E. (2015). Defense and Military Policy: Nuclear War and Deterrence Policy. In Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy. New York, NY: Taylor and Francis.
  • Doyle, T. E. (2015). Defense and Military Policy: Nuclear Warfare Ethics. In Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy. New York, NY: Taylor and Francis.
  • Doyle, T. E. (2015). Hiroshima and Two Paradoxes of Japanese Nuclear Perplexity. Critical Military Studies, 1, 160–174.
  • Doyle, T. E. (2015). Global Nuclear Power and International Security. In The Ethics of Nuclear Power: Risk, Justice, and Democracy in the Post-Fukushima Era. Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press.
  • Doyle, T. E. (2015). Moral and Political Necessities for Nuclear Disarmament: An Applied Ethical Analysis. Strategic Studies Quarterly, 9, 19–42.
  • Doyle, T. E. (2015). When Liberal Peoples Turn into Outlaw States: John Rawls’s Law of Peoples and Liberal Nuclearism. Journal of International Political Theory, 11, 257–273.
  • Doyle, T. E. (2015, April 29). The Iranian controversy is also about saving face. Washington Post. Retrieved from https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2015/04/12/the-iranian-nuclear-controversy-is-also-about-saving-face/
  • Doyle, T. E. (2015, March 8). The Foreign Policy Essay: Moral Values and the Pursuit of Nuclear Weapons. Lawfare. The Brookings Institution. Retrieved from https://www.lawfareblog.com/foreign-policy-essay-moral-values-and-pursuit-nuclear-weapons
  • Doyle, T. E. (2015). The Ethics of Nuclear Weapons Dissemination: Moral Dilemmas of Aspiration, Avoidance, and Prevention. London: Routledge.

2013

  • Doyle, T. E. (2013). Liberal Democracy and Nuclear Despotism: Two Ethical Foreign Policy Dilemmas. Ethics and Global Politics, 6, 155–174.

2011

  • Doyle, T. E. (2011). Ethics, Nuclear Terrorism, and Counter-Terrorist Nuclear Reprisals -- A Response to John Mark Mattox’s “Nuclear Terrorism: The Other Extreme of Irregular Warfare”". Journal of Military Ethics, 10, 296–308.

2010

  • Doyle, T. E. (2010). Deontological International Ethics. In The International Studies Encyclopedia. London: Blackwell Publishing. Retrieved from http://www.blackwellreference.com/subscriber/uid=1114/tocnode?id=g9781444336597_yr2014_chunk_g97814443365976_ss1-26
  • Doyle, T. E. (2010). Reviving Nuclear Ethics: A Renewed Research Agenda for the Twenty-First Century. Ethics and International Affairs, 24, 287–308.
  • Doyle, T. E. (2010). Kantian Nonideal Theory and Nuclear Proliferation. International Theory, 2, 87–112.

2009

  • Doyle, T. E. (2009). The Moral Implications of the Subversion of the Nonproliferation Treaty Regime. Ethics and Global Politics, 2, 131–154.