Michael Foley (academic)

Professor Michael Foley (1948-2016) was an international relations scholar and head of the Department of International Politics at Aberystwyth University in Wales, United Kingdom. Foley held a BA from Keele University and an MA and a PhD from the University of Essex. He was the Associate Editor of the journal International Relations. He died in 2016.

• The New Senate: Liberal Influence on a Conservative Institution, 1959-1972. ( New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980)
• A Government of Laws Men and Machines: Modern American Politics and the Appeal of Newtonian Mechanics (London: Routledge, 1990), 285pp.
• The British Presidency: Tony Blair and the Politics of Public Leadership (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000), 374pp.
• ‘President Bush, the War on Terror and the Populist Tradition’, International Politics (Palgrave Macmillan), vol.44, no.6 (2007), pp. 666–91.
• American Credo: The Place of Ideas in US Politics (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2007), 492pp.
• ‘Bringing realism to American liberalism: Kenneth Waltz and the process of a cold war adjustment’ International Relations (Sage), vol. 23, no.3 (2009), pp. 313–27.