Anne-Marie Slaughter

For the American diplomat, see Anne Slaughter Andrew.
Anne-Marie Slaughter
Born (1958-09-27) September 27, 1958
Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S.[1]
Fields Politics, international affairs
Institutions Princeton University
New America
Alma mater Princeton University
Worcester College, Oxford
Harvard University
Spouse Andrew Moravcsik

Signature

Anne-Marie Slaughter (born September 27, 1958) is an international lawyer, foreign policy analyst, political scientist and public commentator. She is the current President and CEO of the New America Foundation and a former president of the American Society of International Law.[2] From 2002 to 2009, she was the Dean of Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Bert G. Kerstetter '66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs.[3][4][5] She subsequently served as the Director of Policy Planning for the U.S. State Department from January 2009 until February 2011 under U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.[3][6] During her academic career, she has taught at the University of Chicago and Harvard University as well.

Early life, family and honors

Slaughter was born and raised in Charlottesville, Virginia, the daughter of a Belgian mother, Anne Marie Denise (Limbosch), and an American father, Edward Ratliff Slaughter, Jr., a lawyer.[7][8][9][10] Her paternal grandfather was Edward Slaughter, a football player, athletic coach, and professor of physical education.[11] Anne-Marie Slaughter, who once went by Anne-Marie Burley, was a matron of honor at Jeffrey Toobin's wedding.[12][13] She is married to Princeton politics professor Andrew Moravcsik, with whom she has two children.[14][15]

Slaughter is a 1976 graduate of St. Anne's-Belfield School in Charlottesville, Virginia. She received her B.A. from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University in 1980, where she graduated magna cum laude and received a certificate in European cultural studies. Mentored by Richard H. Ullman.,[16] she won the Daniel M. Sachs Memorial Scholarship, one of Princeton's top honors, which provides for two years of study at Worcester College, Oxford University.[17] After receiving her M.Phil. in International Affairs from Oxford University in 1982, she studied at Harvard Law School and graduated cum laude with a J.D. in 1985. She continued at Harvard after graduation as a researcher for her academic mentor, the international lawyer Abram Chayes. In 1992, she received her D.Phil. in International Relations from Oxford.[12][18]

Slaughter has received an honorary degree from the University of Miami in 2006, the University of Virginia's Thomas Jefferson Medal in 2007, the University of Warwick in 2013, and Tufts University in 2014; she was the Commencement speaker that year at Tufts.[19]

Academic career

Scholarship and teaching

Slaughter served on the faculty of the University of Chicago Law School from 1989–1994 and then as J. Sinclair Armstrong Professor of International, Foreign, and Comparative Law on the faculty of Harvard Law School from 1994 to 2002. She then moved to Princeton to serve as dean of the Woodrow Wilson School, the first woman to hold that position. She held that post from 2002 to 2009, when she accepted an appointment at the US State Department. During the academic year 2007–2008 Slaughter was a visiting fellow at the Shanghai Institute for International Affairs. In 2011, she returned to Princeton as a professor.

As a scholar, Slaughter has had a focus on integrating the study of international relations and international law, using international relations theory in international legal theory. In addition, she has written extensively on European Union politics, network theories of world politics, transjudicial communication, liberal theories of international law and international relations, American foreign policy, international law, and various types of policy analysis. She has published four books: International Law and International Relations (2000), A New World Order (2004), The Idea that is America: Keeping Faith with our Values in a Dangerous World (2007), The Crisis of American Foreign Policy: Wilsonianism in the Twenty-first Century (with G. John Ikenberry, Thomas J. Knock, and Tony Smith) (2008), as well as three edited volumes on international relations and international law, and over one hundred extended articles in scholarly and policy journals or books.

She has been active as a teacher of numerous doctoral students in both law and political science, as well as other graduate and undergraduate students. At Princeton University, she is currently jointly appointed in the Politics Department and the Woodrow Wilson School, where she teaches and advises PhD, Masters and undergraduate students.

Administration

Slaughter was Director of the International Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School from 1994–2002, and a Professor at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government from 2001–2002.

During her tenure as dean of the Woodrow Wilson School, she was credited with vigorously building the faculty, research and teaching activities of the school. She expanded the school by 30%, adding scholars from history, sociology, engineering and the natural sciences, and expanded the School's Masters in Public Policy Program to include medical doctors, lawyers, and Ph.D. scientists. She was credited with rebuilding Princeton's international relations faculty, including hiring a bevy of well-respected senior scholars including Robert Keohane, Helen Milner, and G. John Ikenberry. She also retained or hired influential right-of-center scholars including Aaron Friedberg and Thomas Christensen. Slaughter was also responsible for the creation of several research centers in international political economy and national security, the joint Ph.D. program in Social Policy, the Global Fellows program and the Scholars in the Nation's Service Initiative.

In late 2005, over 100 Princeton students and faculty signed an open letter to Slaughter and Princeton president Shirley Tilghman criticizing the University in general and the Woodrow Wilson School in particular of biasing selection of invited speakers in favor of those supportive of the Bush administration.[20] Slaughter responded to these claims by pointing to the dozens of public lectures by independent academics, journalists, and other analysts that the Wilson School hosts each academic year.[21] Others noted that, with Bush's Republican Party controlling the Presidency and both houses of Congress, many of the most influential people in the federal government, and in the international relations apparatus in particular, were necessarily administration supporters. In 2003 the Woodrow Wilson School hosted an art exhibit titled "Ricanstructions" that opponents of the exhibit claimed was "offensive to Catholics" and desecrated Christian symbols. Slaughter defended the exhibit.[22]

From 2002–2004, Slaughter served as president of the American Society of International Law.

Career at the State Department

On 23 January 2009, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced the appointment of Slaughter as the new Director of Policy Planning under the Obama administration.[3] Slaughter was the first woman to hold this position.

At the State Department, Slaughter was chief architect of the Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review whose first iteration was released in December 2010.[23][24] The QDDR provided a blueprint for elevating development as a pillar of American foreign policy and leading through civilian power. Commenting upon the skepticism that often greets such reports, and reiterating Secretary Clinton's strong desire that the QDDR become an essential part of the State Department policy process, Slaughter said: "I'm pretty sure you're thinking, 'I've heard this before,' [a big plan to change the way a government agency works] But this is different."[24] Slaughter received the Secretary's Distinguished Service Award for exceptional leadership and professional competence, the highest honor conferred by the State Department. She also received a Meritorious Honor Award from the U.S. Agency for International Development for her outstanding contribution to development policy.

In February 2011, at the conclusion of her two-year public service leave, Slaughter returned to Princeton University. She remains a consultant for the State Department and sits on the Secretary of State's Foreign Policy Advisory Board.[25] She has written that she came "home not only because of Princeton's rules (after two years of leave, you lose your tenure), but also because of my desire to be with my family and my conclusion that juggling high-level government work with the needs of two teenage boys was not possible."[26]

A 2015 article in Marie Claire magazine quoted Hillary Clinton as saying that "other women don't break a sweat" and choose to stay working in stressful government jobs. Since the article discussed Anne-Marie Slaughter in the same paragraph, Slaughter mentioned that she was "devastated" by the idea that Clinton had been referring to her specifically. After hearing confirmation from Clinton that the quotation was taken out of context, Slaughter stated that the two were still on good terms.[27]

Other policy, public, and corporate activities

In the 1980s, as a student, Slaughter was part of the team headed by Professor Abram Chayes that helped the Sandinista government of Nicaragua bring suit against the United States in the International Court of Justice for violations of international law, in the case Nicaragua v. United States (1986).

Since leaving the State Department, Slaughter remains a frequent commentator on foreign policy issues by publishing op-eds in major newspapers, magazines and blogs and curating foreign policy news on Twitter. She appears regularly on CNN, the BBC, NPR, and PBS and lectures to academic, civic, and corporate audiences. She has written a regular opinion column for Project Syndicate since January 2012.[28] She delivers more than 60 public lectures annually. Foreign Policy magazine named her to their annual list of the Top100 Global Thinkers in 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012.[29]

She has served on the boards of numerous non-profit organizations, including the Council of Foreign Relations, the New America Foundation, the National Endowment for Democracy, the National Security Network and the Brookings Doha Center. She is currently on the Advisory Board of the Center for New American Security, the Truman Project, and the bipartisan Development Council of the Center for Strategic and International Studies. In 2006, she chaired the Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on Democracy Promotion. From 2004–2007, she was a co-director of the Princeton Project on National Security.[7]

In the private sector, she is currently on the corporate board of Abt Associates, a mission-driven NGO involved in research, evaluation and implementing programs in the fields of health, social and environmental policy, and international development. She was previously on the board of the McDonald's Corporation and that of the Citigroup Economic and Political Strategies Advisory Group.[7]

In 2013, Slaughter was named president of the New America Foundation.[2][30]

On the 2003 invasion of Iraq

In 2003, Slaughter stated that the impending Iraq invasion might be viewed as "legitimate," apart from the question of whether it was illegal, if intervening countries: (a) found weapons of mass destruction, (b) were greeted as liberators, and (c) went back to the UN immediately. Slaughter subsequently concluded publicly that, according to these criteria, the invasion had been illegitimate.

On the Responsibility to Protect

In July 2005, Slaughter wrote in the American Journal of International Law about the responsibility to protect (R2P) that:[31]

“ Membership in the United Nations is no longer a validation of sovereign status and a shield against unwanted meddling in a state’s domestic jurisdiction... Sovereignty misused, in the sense of failure to fulfill this responsibility [to protect], could become sovereignty denied. ”

In her 2006 Levine lecture at Fordham University, Slaughter called the R2P "the most important shift in our conception of sovereignty since the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648", and founded it in the Four Freedoms speech by President Roosevelt.[32] She referred to a speech by Kofi Annan, in which he saw that the United Nations had come to a "fork in the road" and in her words "that it was time to decide how to adapt the institution to not the world of 1945 but the world of 2005".[33]

On Libyan intervention

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1970 and United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973, on the situation in Libya, were adopted on 26 February and 17 March 2011, respectively. Resolution 1970 was the first case where the Security Council authorized a military intervention citing the R2P; it passed unanimously. One week after the adoption with many absentions of the latter Resolution, Slaughter wrote a strong endorsement of Western military intervention in Libya.[34]

In this op-ed, Slaughter challenged the skeptics who questioned the NATO use of force in Libya, describing a lack of NATO as an invitation for other regional regimes to increase their repression to remain in power. She challenged the idea that value-based and interest-based arguments on intervention could be distinguished and noted the role of President Barack Obama in helping to form an international coalition, which increased the pressure on Muammar Gadhafi. She is supportive of the Libyan Transitional National Council draft constitutional charter and is relieved that comparisons with Iraq are being made, because it might prevent similar mistakes in Libya.[35]

On 25 August 2011, she was roundly criticized by Matt Welch, who sorted through many of Slaughter's prior op-eds and concluded that she was a "situational constitutionalist".[36]

Clifford May on 15 October 2014 wrote a piece in which he drew a straight line between Annan and Slaughter's R2P "norm", and the failure in Libya. May noted that President Obama had cited the R2P norm as his primary justification for using military force with Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi, who had threatened to attack the opposition stronghold of Benghazi.[37]

In a 11 November 2014 piece entitled What Happened to the Humanitarians Who Wanted to Save Libyans With Bombs and Drones?, Glenn Greenwald denounced her and her policies:

“ Just three years after NATO’s military intervention in Libya ended and was widely heralded by its proponents as a resounding success, that country is in complete collapse. So widespread is violence and anarchy there that “hardly any Libyan can live a normal life,” Brown University’s Stephen Kinzer wrote in The Boston Globe last week. Last month, the Libyan Parliament, with no functioning army to protect it from well-armed militias, was forced to flee Tripoli and take refuge in a Greek car ferry. The New York Times reported in September that “the government of Libya said . . . that it had lost control of its ministries to a coalition of militias that had taken over the capital, Tripoli, in another milestone in the disintegration of the state.” ”

On 26 February 2015, Forbes magazine published a piece which called for Washington policymakers to be held accountable for another war gone bad. Slaughter was singled out for criticism, for her statement that “it clearly can be in the U.S. and the West’s strategic interest to help social revolutions fighting for the values we espouse and proclaim.” The writer, Doug Bandow, concluded that:[38]

“ Libya was an artificial nation. Khadafy held it together through personal rule, not a strong state. When he died political structure vanished. Khadafy was brutally executed; revenge killings and torture were common; black African workers were blamed for the old regime and abused. Khadafy’s arsenals were looted, with weapons, including anti-aircraft missiles, flowing outward. The country split apart geographically, ethnically, ideologically, and theologically... The Obama administration’s greatest foreign policy mistake can’t be undone... When war-happy politicians... next stand before America, voters should hold these pitiful policymakers accountable for the disaster they created in Libya. ”

On intervention in Syria

In a February 2012 op-ed for the New York Times, Slaughter wrote an affective piece that proposed the overthrow of Bashar el-Assad by means of civil disobedience:[39]

“ Foreign military intervention in Syria offers the best hope for curtailing a long, bloody and destabilizing civil war. The mantra of those opposed to intervention is “Syria is not Libya.” In fact, Syria is far more strategically located than Libya, and a lengthy civil war there would be much more dangerous to our interests. America has a major stake in helping Syria’s neighbors stop the killing. ”

She proposed that actors such as Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Jordan, "arm the opposition soldiers with anti-tank, countersniper and portable antiaircraft weapons" in order to help the Friends of Syria group intervene.[39] Journalist Michael Hirsh was quick to support her in the National Journal, writing that "even if the U.N. Security Council remains paralyzed, the newly empowered Arab League can provide a cover of legitimacy".[40]

On 8 June 2012, Slaughter returned to the subject of intervention in Syria, with a rebuttal of a Henry Kissinger piece,[41] in which he argued that an intervention would imperil the foundation of world order. Citing two situation reports and claiming that NATO had violated UNSC 1970 in Libya, Slaughter imagined an intervention process without widespread destruction:[42]

“ These means would include the provision of intelligence and communications equipment, antitank and anti-mortar weapons, and, crucially, air support against Syrian government tanks and troops that seek to enter or overrun a zone. The provision of such support would also require the disabling of Syrian air defenses. ”

Slaughter sought to provide arms to the rebels, calling for bold action in creating a western backed coalition that would provide provide heavy weapons to rebels that controlled safe zones which admitted foreign journalists to monitor the rebels actions.[43] She imagined that "this type of action would force the Russian and Chinese governments to come clean about the real motives for their positions", and proceeded to charge Vladimir Putin with "crimes against humanity, indeed near-genocide... in Chechnya at the turn of the century". Slaughter admitted that the principle of sovereignty was "enshrined in the United Nations Charter", but pointed to the fact that in 2005, the doctrine of R2P had been adopted by the UN.[42]

On work-family balance

Slaughter's article titled "Why Women Still Can't Have it All" appeared in the July/August 2012 issue of The Atlantic.[26] In the first four days after publication, the piece attracted 725,000 unique readers, making it the most popular article ever published in that magazine.[44][45] In the same period, it received over 119,000 Facebook "Recommends," making it by far the most "liked" piece ever to appear in any version of the magazine. Within several days, it had been discussed in detail on the front page of The New York Times[46] and in many other media outlets,[47] attracting attention from around the world.[48] Although Slaughter originally tried to call the article "Why Women Can't Have it All Yet", she has since stated that it was a mistake to use the phrase "Have it All" in general.[49] In 2015, Slaughter clarified that she hoped to stimulate a discussion about a wide range of working mothers, not only those in prestigious or lucrative careers.[50]

The Atlantic article became the basis of the 2015 book Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family.[51]

Selected publications

References

  1. ↑ Wolfe, Alexandra (2013-06-14). "Weekend Confidential: Anne-Marie Slaughter". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2015-12-25.
  2. 1 2 Hogan, Clara (April 3, 2013). "ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER NAMED NEXT PRESIDENT OF NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION". NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION. Retrieved April 3, 2013.
  3. 1 2 3 "Official State Department Biography: Dr. Anne-Marie Slaughter". U. S. State Department. January 27, 2009. Archived from the original on 2011-07-10.
  4. ↑ Brush, Silla (May 15, 2002). "Slaughter '80 named Wilson School dean". The Daily Princetonian. Retrieved 2012-06-24.
  5. ↑ "Administration". Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Retrieved 2012-06-24.
  6. ↑ "Biography: Anne-Marie Slaughter, Director Policy Planning". U. S. State Department. Archived from the original on 2012-12-26.
  7. 1 2 3 Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. "Anne-Marie Slaughter". Princeton University. Retrieved 7 May 2013.
  8. ↑ "From Mother to Daughter on 'Having it All'". NPR. 2013-05-09. Retrieved 2015-12-25.
  9. ↑ "Fifteen Years Later". Princeton University. 1968. Retrieved 2015-12-25.
  10. ↑ "Edward Ratliff Slaughter and Anne Limbosch". Wiki Kin. Retrieved 2015-12-25.
  11. ↑ Slaughter, Anne-Marie (2015-09-29). "Then+she+met+Edward+“Butch”+Slaughter,+an+assistant+football+coach" Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family. Random House. Retrieved 2015-12-25.
  12. 1 2 "Resume of Anne-Marie Slaughter" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-06-24.
  13. ↑ "J.R. Toobin Weds Amy B. McIntosh". The New York Times. June 1, 1986. Retrieved 2014-01-05.
  14. ↑ "Short biography". Andrew Moravcsik. Retrieved 2008-08-23.
  15. ↑ Princeton Weekly Bulletin, April 30, 2007 p.1-7
  16. ↑ Princeton.edu
  17. ↑ Fellowship in memory of Rhodes Scholar from Princeton who studied at Worcester College, Oxford, Daniel M. Sachs. Princeton.edu.
  18. ↑ "Anne-Marie Slaughter '76 Speaks to Upper School". The Upper School Weekly Digest. St. Anne's-Belfield School. March 22, 2012. Retrieved 2014-01-05. Anne-Marie Slaughter ’76, acclaimed teacher, commentator, and writer in the field of international relations, returned to campus Wednesday to speak...
  19. ↑ "Anne-Marie Slaughter — Honorary Graduate". University of Warwick. 2013-07-18. Retrieved 2015-12-25.
  20. ↑ "Open Letter to President Shirley Tilghman, Dean Anne-Marie Slaughter, and the Princeton Community". 11 October 2005. Retrieved 7 May 2013.
  21. ↑ "Events – Archive". Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Retrieved 7 May 2013.
  22. ↑ Lipsky-Karasz, Daniel (May 14, 2003). "Forum looks at controversy over Wilson School exhibit". The Daily Princetonian. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
  23. ↑ Long, Emily (2009-07-15). "State Department launches quadrennial review". Government Executive. Archived from the original on 26 December 2009. Retrieved 2009-11-13.
  24. 1 2 LaFranchi, Howard (2010-12-15). "Hillary Clinton's vision for foreign policy on a tight budget". The Christian Science Monitor. Archived from the original on 19 January 2011. Retrieved 2011-01-15.
  25. ↑ Thiel, Samantha (February 1, 2011). "Slaughter '80 returns to Wilson School". The Daily Princetonian. Retrieved 2012-06-24.
  26. 1 2 Slaughter, Anne-Marie (July–August 2012). "Why Women Still Can't Have It All". The Atlantic.
  27. ↑ Bade, Rachael (2015-11-30). "Anne-Marie Slaughter 'devastated' by Clinton's take on her 'have it all' article". Politico. Retrieved 2015-12-25.
  28. ↑ "Anne-Marie Slaughter". Project Syndicate. Retrieved 2012-06-24.
  29. ↑ "Beyond Work / Life: Changing the Debate % Making Change". SXSW. 2013-03-09. Retrieved 2015-12-25.
  30. ↑ "New America Staff". Retrieved 6 May 2013.
  31. ↑ Charles H. Camp and Theresa B. Bowman: "The Responsibility to Protect: Reading Ethical Responsibilities Into the Rule of Law", 20 Mar 2014
  32. ↑ lawnet.fordham.edu: "A New U.N. For a New Century", FLR (2006) 74(6) 2961
  33. ↑ nytimes.com: "THE STRUGGLE FOR IRAQ; In Annan and Chirac's Words: 'Fork in the Road' and 'Call a Summit'", 24 Sep 2003
  34. ↑ ft.com: "Why Libya sceptics were proved badly wrong", 24 Aug 2011
  35. ↑ pomed.org: 'Libya Op-Eds: “Bar Too High?” and Challenging Skeptics'
  36. ↑ reason.com: "Anne-Marie Slaughter's End Zone Dancing and Situational Constitutionalism", 25 Aug 2011
  37. ↑ townhall.com: "The Demise of ‘Responsibility to Protect’ at The U.N.", 15 Oct 2014
  38. ↑ forbes.com: "Libya: Hold Policymakers Accountable For Another Washington War Gone Bad", 26 Feb 2015
  39. 1 2 nytimes.com: "How to Halt the Butchery in Syria", 23 Feb 2012
  40. ↑ nationaljournal.com: "ANALYSIS - Getting Serious About Syria", 24 Feb 2012
  41. ↑ washingtonpost.com: "Syrian intervention risks upsetting global order", 1 Jun 2012
  42. 1 2 washingtonpost.com: "Syrian intervention is justifiable, and just", 8 Jun 2012
  43. ↑ Anne-Marie Slaughter (31 July 2012). "We will pay a high price if we do not arm Syria's rebels". Financial Times. Retrieved 3 September 2015.
  44. ↑ "Power Luncheon with Anne-Marie Slaughter". Ellevate. 2013-05-21. Retrieved 2015-12-25.
  45. ↑ "Anne-Marie Slaughter on work-life balance without the struggle". CBC. 2015-10-14. Retrieved 2015-12-25.
  46. ↑ Kantor, Jodi (June 21, 2012). "Elite Women Put a New Spin on an Old Debate". The New York Times.
  47. ↑ "Record Hits On Mag's 'Can't Have It All' Story". NPR. June 22, 2012. Retrieved 2012-06-24.
  48. ↑ "The gender debate, at least, has had it all". Globe and Mail. July 21, 2012.
  49. ↑ Van Syckle, Katie (2012-12-14). "Eight Things We Learned From Anne-Marie Slaughter's Lecture Circuit". The Cut. Retrieved 2015-12-25.
  50. ↑ "Interview with Clara Jeffrey". 2015-10-07. Retrieved 2015-12-25.
  51. ↑ Blair, Elaine (September 23, 2015). "Anne-Marie Slaughter’s ‘Unfinished Business’". The New York Times.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Anne-Marie Slaughter.
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Saturday, December 26, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.