David M. Malone

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David M. Malone is a Canadian scholar-diplomat, frequent author on international security issues and a former ambassador to the United Nations. His most recent book is The Law and Practice of the United Nations. Earlier he had written on the political economy of civil wars, on the causes of violent conflict and conflict prevention and on Haiti. As a practitioner, Malone worked on Middle East issues and later focused on international economic relations, eventually becoming a G-8 negotiator for Canada. He was President of the International Peace Academy, an independent research and policy development institution in New York, 1998-2004. During these years, he contributed columns frequently to the international media, notably to the International Herald Tribune and the Globe & Mail.

While today Canada's High Commissioner in India and Ambassador to Nepal and Bhutan, he continues to contribute to the scholarly literature on international security, international economic relations and international law. His co-authors have included Mats Berdal, Fen Osler Hampson, Yuen Foong Khong, Simon Chesterman, Karin Wermester, Charles Cater, Lotta Hagman, Heiko Nitzschke, James Cockayne, Sebastian von Einsiedel, Maciej Hawrylak and Ramesh Thakur. He has taught at the University of Toronto, at Columbia University, at the New York University School of Law and at l'Institut d'Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po) in Paris. He lectures frequently in India, and occasionally in the United Kingdom, the United States, France and Canada.

Recently, he was appointed President of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), effective 1 July 2008.

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The Law and Practice of the United Nations, co-authored by Simon Chesterman and Thomas M. Franck (Oxford University Press, 2008)
Preventing a Future Generation of Conflict in Iraq, co-edited by Markus Bouillon and Ben Rowswell (Lynne Rienner, 2007).
The International Struggle Over Iraq: Politics in the UN Security Council, 1980-2005 (Oxford University Press, 2006)
The UN Security Council From Cold War to Twenty-First Century (Lynne Rienner, 2004)
Unilateralism and US Foreign Policy" co-edited by Yuen Foong Khong (Lynne Rienner, 2002)
From Reaction to Conflict Prevention, co-edited by Fen Osler Hampson (lynne Rinner, 2002)
Greed and Grievance: Economic Agendas in Civil Wars, co-edited by Mats Berdal, Lynne Rienner (2000)
Decision-Making in The UN Security Council: The Case of Haiti (Oxford University Press, 1999)