Jeffrey S. Morton (born March 13, 1964) is the Pierrepont Comfort Chair in Political Science at Florida Atlantic University and a Fellow at the Foreign Policy Association.
In 1986 he completed the International Law Commission Summer training program at the United Nations Office at Geneva.
[6] In 2016, the program was named in honor of Leon Charney, a key player in the Camp David Accord.
In 2020, made possible with a seed donation of $500,000, the Morton Research Forum was established in the Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College at Florida Atlantic.
The Forum serves as a think tank that promotes critical studies of American foreign policy and global affairs.
Jeffrey Morton lectures widely on matters of international law, U.S. foreign policy, conflict and terrorism.
In 2021, the Foreign Policy Association launched its annual live Great Decisions Master Class.
Jeffrey Morton is considered a pragmatist in his conceptualization of world affairs and U.S. foreign policy, grounding his analysis in legal realism.
He claimed that even a quick and successful war that introduced democracy in Iraq would result in a significant strategic victory for Iran.
In a live television interview on the day that NATO forces initiated an aerial assault on Libya in 2011, Morton labeled the policy a strategic blunder.
[7] He argued that Libya, like Iraq in 2003, was ill prepared for democratic pluralism and would ultimately disintegrate into lawless factions.
"The International Law Commission of the United Nations: Legal Vacuum or Microcosm of World Politics?"