Miles Kahler teaches and conducts research in the fields of international politics and international political economy. His current research includes new actors, networks, and patterns of governance in international relations; malign foreign influence and its effects on democracies; and changes in international and regional institutions over the past century.

He is a nonresident scholar in the Global Order and Institutions Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He has been a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, a Distinguished Fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy,University of Toronto; and he has held fellowships at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University. He is a senior advisor and past member of the editorial board of International Organization.

Before joining the faculty of SIS as a Distinguished Professor, Kahler was Rohr Professor of Pacific International Relations and Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego. He holds A.B. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University and an M.Phil degree from Oxford University.