Watt served as a Professor of International History at the London School of Economics, where he served as the Head of the Department and Stevenson Chair of International History from 1981 to 1993.
Watt edited Survey of International Affairs at Chatham House from 1962 to 1971. He was the author or co-author of 25 books. He won the Wolfson History Prize in 1990.
Personal life and death
Watt was married twice. He first married Marianne Grau in 1951, and they had a son. After she died in 1962, he married Felicia Stanley. She predeceased him in 1997.
Watt died on 30 October 2014. He was 86 years old.
Works
Watt, Donald Cameron (1957). Documents on the Suez Crisis, 26 July to 6 November 1956. London, U.K.: Royal Institute of International Affairs. OCLC818220.
Mayall, James; Navari, Cornelia; Watt, Donald Cameron (1973). Documents on International Affairs, 1963. London, U.K.: Oxford University Press. OCLC1331464.
Watt, Donald Cameron (1965). Personalities and Policies: Studies in the Formulation of British Foreign Policy in the Twentieth Century. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press. OCLC404671.
Brown, Neville; Spencer, Frank; Watt, Donald Cameron (1968). A History of the World in the Twentieth Century. New York: Scott Foresman. OCLC6536389.
Watt, Donald Cameron (1969). Contemporary History in Europe: Problems and Perspectives. New York: Praeger. OCLC11705.
Mayall, James; Watt, Donald Cameron (1973). Current British Foreign Policy: Documents, Statements, Speeches, 1971. London, U.K.: Temple Smith. ISBN9780851170411. OCLC55644303.
Watt, Donald Cameron (1975). Too Serious a Business: European Armed Forces and the Approach to the Second World War. Berkeley, California: University of California Press. ISBN9780520028296. OCLC1370478.