1 | Name: | Dr. Anne-Marie Slaughter | |
Institution: | New America Foundation | ||
Year Elected: | 2011 | ||
Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | ||
Subdivision: | 503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors | ||
Residency: | Resident | ||
Living? : | Living | ||
Birth Date: | 1958 | ||
Anne-Marie Slaughter is one of the leading U.S. scholars of international law. A graduate of the Woodrow Wilson School (A.B.), Oxford (D.Phil. in international relations, 1992), and Harvard Law School (1985), she taught law at Chicago and Harvard, where she directed International Legal Studies. Exceptionally talented and accomplished, she had been serving as the dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University when she was appointed Director of Policy Planning at the U.S. Department of State. She returned to Princeton University where she is now Bert G. Kerstetter '66 University Professor Emerita of Politics and International Affairs. In 2013 she became President and Chief Executive Officer of the New America Foundation. Her book A New World Order is one of the most influential recent studies of the emerging international system, identifying transnational networks of government officials as an aspect of global governance. She has also initiated an important long-term study of international security arrangements, The Princeton Project on National Security. Her other works include The Idea That Is America: Keeping Faith with Our Values in a Dangerous World (2007) and "The Arab Spring and Climate Change" (2013). She was awarded the Francis Deak Prize of the American Journal of International Law in 1990 and 1994, the Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award of the Tufts Institute for Global Leadership in 2003, and the Thomas Jefferson Medal in Law of the University of Virginia/Thomas Jefferson Foundation in 2007. She was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2002 and the American Philosophical Society in 2011. |