Anne-Marie Slaughter

For the American diplomat, see Anne Slaughter Andrew.

Anne-Marie Slaughter
25th Director of Policy Planning
In office
January 23, 2009 – January 23, 2011
PresidentBarack Obama
Preceded byDavid F. Gordon
Succeeded byJake Sullivan
Personal details
Born (1958-09-27) September 27, 1958 (age 66)
Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S.
SpouseAndrew Moravcsik
EducationPrinceton University (BA)
Worcester College, Oxford (MPhil, DPhil)
Harvard University (JD)
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Anne-Marie Slaughter (born September 27, 1958) is an American international lawyer, foreign policy analyst, political scientist, and public commentator. From 2002 to 2009, she was the dean of Princeton University's School of Public and International Affairs and the Bert G. Kerstetter '66 university professor of politics and international affairs.[1][2][3] Slaughter was the first woman to serve 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.[1][4] She is a former president of the American Society of International Law and the current president and CEO of New America (formerly the New America Foundation).[5]

Slaughter has received several awards for her work including: the Woodrow Wilson School R.W. van de Velde Award, 1979; the Thomas Jefferson Medal in Law, University of Virginia and Thomas Jefferson Foundation, 2007; Distinguished Service Medal, U.S. Secretary of state 2011; Louis B. Sohn Award for Public International Law, American Bar association, 2012.[6]

As author and editor Slaughter has worked on eight books, including A New World Order (2004); The Idea That Is America: Keeping Faith with Our Values in a Dangerous World (2007); Unfinished Business: Women, Men, Work, Family (2015); The Chessboard and the Web: Strategies of Connection in a Dangerous World (2017), as well as many scholarly articles.[citation needed] She revived a national debate over gender equality in the twenty-first century in an article in The Atlantic titled "Why Women Still Can't Have it All."[7] Slaughter is on the global advisory board[8] of Oxford University's journal Global Summitry: Politics, Economics, and Law in International Governance.

  1. ^ a b "Official State Department Biography: Dr. Anne-Marie Slaughter". U. S. State Department. January 27, 2009. Archived from the original on July 10, 2011.
  2. ^ Brush, Silla (May 15, 2002). "Slaughter '80 named Wilson School dean". The Daily Princetonian. Archived from the original on March 5, 2006. Retrieved June 24, 2012.
  3. ^ "Administration". Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Archived from the original on June 30, 2012. Retrieved June 24, 2012.
  4. ^ "Biography: Anne-Marie Slaughter, Director Policy Planning". U. S. State Department. Archived from the original on January 13, 2013.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference NAF April 4 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ "Anne-Marie Slaughter." Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2016. Literature Resource Center, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=LitRC&sw=w&u=uvictoria&v=2.1&id=GALE%7CH1000161305&it=r&asid=bbad40a7dff5342337124203333879f7. Accessed 25 September 2017.
  7. ^ Poo, Ai-jen. "Caring without question- Unfinished business: Women, Men, Work, Family. By Anne-Marie Slaughter. Ney York: random House, 2015." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture ad Society, vol. 42, no. 2, 2017, pp. 558–560. University of Chicago Press, doi:10.1086/688266.
  8. ^ "Ed Board". Oxford Academics. Retrieved July 14, 2019.