Professor Kegley's fields of special interest are theories of international relations, the comparative study of foreign policy, and the creation and consequences of transnational norms.  He also taught at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva.  A past President of the International Studies Association (1993-1994), he received his B.S. in 1966 from the School of International Service of the American University, and his Ph.D. in 1971 from the International Relations Program of Syracuse University. Kegley has served as Chairman of the Department of Government and International Studies from 1981-1985 and Co-Director (with The Hon. Lawrence S. Eagleburger) of the Byrnes International Center from 1985 to 1988. He also has taught at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, the University of Texas, Rutgers University as the Moses and Annuta Back Peace Scholar, and the People's University of China. In addition, he was a Pew Fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs.

Among his three dozen book publications, he has recently published The New Terrorism (2003);  World Politics: Trend and Transformation (9th ed., 2004); Controversies in International Relations Theory: Realism and the Neoliberal Challenge (1995); and, with Gregory A. Raymond, From War to Peace (2002); Exorcising the Ghost of Westphalia (2002); How Nations Make Peace (1999); The Global Agenda:  Issues and Perspectives  (6th ed., 2001); A Multipolar Peace? Great-Power Politics in the Twenty-First Century (1994); The Long Postwar Peace: Contending Explanations and Projections (1991); The Future of American Foreign Policy (1992); American Foreign Policy: Pattern and Process (6th ed., 2002); After the Cold War:  Questioning the Morality of Nuclear Deterrence (1991); When Trust Breaks Down: Alliance Norms and World Politics (1990); International Terrorism: Characteristics, Causes, and Controls (1990); and The Nuclear Reader: Strategy, Weapons, War (2nd ed., 1989). He has published articles in a wide range of scholarly journals, including The Journal of Peace Research, The Journal of Conflict Resolution, International Studies Quarterly, Ethics and International Affairs, Bulletin of Peace Proposals, Alternatives, USA Today, Harvard International Review, Presidential Studies Quarterly, Comparative Political Studies, Conflict Management and Peace Science, International Interactions, The Journal of Politics, and the Western Political Quarterly.