Anne-Marie Slaughter

Dean, Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton, Expert on International Relations and Law

BIG IDEAS

• The Idea That Is America
  Dean Slaughter reminds us of the essential principles on which our nation was established: liberty, democracy, equality, justice, tolerance, humility, and faith. Our ongoing struggle to live up to America’s great promise matters not only to us, but also to the billions of men and women everywhere who look to the United States to lead, protect, and inspire the world. Anne-Marie Slaughter sets forth a bold vision of an America that upholds its values abroad as well as at home.
• A New World Order
  Terrorists, arms dealers, money launderers, drug dealers, traffickers in women and children, and the modern pirates of intellectual property all operate through global networks. So, increasingly, do governments. Networks of government officials—police investigators, financial regulators, even judges and legislators—increasingly exchange information and coordinate activity to combat global crime and address common problems on a global scale. “These government networks are a key feature of world order in the twenty-first century, but they are under-appreciated, under-supported, and underused to address the central problems of global governance.”
• National Security 2.1
  National Security 2.1 provides a simple and accessible framework for identifying the multiple challenges that different nations and the world as a whole faces in the 21st century. It outlines the principal debates over strategies to counter those threats, in terms both of the ends that a U.S. or indeed any nation's national security strategy should seek to achieve, and of the optimum means to implement those strategies. It concludes with a discussion of the different actors who will influence and be influenced by the strategies adopted—government, corporate, and civic—and an analysis of how each set of actors can and must contribute to making the world a safer, richer, and better place in the coming decades.

SNAPSHOT BIO

Anne-Marie Slaughter is the Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, and the Bert G. Kerstetter Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University. Drawing from rich interdisciplinary expertise, she writes, speaks and teaches broadly on geopolitical shifts, global governance, international criminal law, and foreign policy.

Dean Slaughter came to the Wilson School in 2000 from Harvard Law School, where she was a Professor of International, Foreign, and Comparative Law and Director of the International Legal Studies Program. She has the unique distinction of being an accomplished expert in both fields of global politics and international law. She is an astute observer of the political and economic emergence of China and India.

In addition to her research, Anne-Marie speaks regularly to businesses, governments, academic audiences, and civic groups. She is a former President of the American Society of International Law and currently serves on the boards of a number of organizations, including the Council on Foreign Relations, the New America Foundation, and the Canadian Institute for International Governance Innovation. She is also a member of the Citigroup Economic and Political Strategies Advisory Group, and she is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is a frequent commentator on television programs including Charlie Rose, On the Record with Greta van Susteren, and CBS Evening News.

She has written for publications including The Washington Post, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, and the International Herald Tribune. She contributes regularly to the America Abroad Blog on TPMCafe.com. Her most recent book, The Idea That Is America: Keeping Faith With Our Values In A Dangerous World explores the essential principles and values that define America, and how we have lost our way with those values in the modern world. She sets forth a bold vision of an America that upholds its values abroad as well as at home. Her previous book, A New World Order, was hailed by Foreign Affairs as a "major new statement about global governance." In it, she identifies transnational networks of government officials as an increasingly important component of global governance and maps out how the power nation states can be counterbalanced with effective networked diplomacy and governance.

Anne-Marie was raised in Charlottesville, Virginia by her American father and Belgian mother. She graduated magna cum laude from Princeton in 1980. She received her M.Phil. and D.Phil. degrees in international relations from Oxford in 1982 and 1992, respectively, and her law degree from Harvard Law School, cum laude, in 1985. She continued at Harvard after graduation as a researcher for her academic mentor, the distinguished international lawyer Abram Chayes. Before joining the Harvard faculty, she taught at the University of Chicago Law School.