Anne-Marie Slaughter

Anne-Marie Slaughter
Born	September 27, 1958 (1958-09-27) (age 51)
Nationality	United States
Fields	Politics, international affairs
Institutions	Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
Alma mater	Princeton, Oxford, Harvard Law

Anne-Marie Slaughter (born September 27, 1958) is the Director of Policy Planning for the U.S. State Department^[1]. Previously, she was the Bert G. Kerstetter '66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs and Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.^[2][1]

Education

Slaughter received her A.B. from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University in 1980, her M.Phil. in International Affairs from Oxford University in 1982, her J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1985, and her D.Phil. in International Relations from Oxford in 1992.^[3]

Academic career

In the 1980s 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).

She served on the faculty of the University of Chicago Law School from 1989-1994 and then on the faculty of Harvard Law School before moving to Princeton in 2002. She is married to Andrew Moravcsik, who teaches in Princeton's Department of Politics. They have two children, Edward Moravcsik and Alexander Moravcsik.^[4][5]

Since becoming dean of the Woodrow Wilson School in 2002, she has been credited with vigorously rebuilding Princeton's international relations faculty, including hiring a bevy of well-respected, left of center academics including Robert Keohane, Helen Milner, and G. John Ikenberry, as well as retaining or hiring influential right-of-center scholars including Aaron Friedberg and Thomas Christensen, who recently returned from public service leave from the School as a Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs at the U.S. Department of State.

In 2003 the Woodrow Wilson School hosted an art exhibit titled "Ricanstructions" that opponents of the exhibit claimed was "anti-Catholic" and desecrated Christian symbols. Slaughter defended the exhibit.^[6] 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.^[7] 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.^[8]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.

Slaughter is an influential proponent of the use of international relations theory in international law. She has published two books on international relations and dozens of articles, both in scholarly journals and in mainstream publications. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves as a director on the Council's Board. From 2002-2004 she served as president of the American Society of International Law. From 2004-2006 she served as co-director of the Princeton Project on National Security. In November 2006 she was chosen to chair the Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on Democracy Promotion.

In 2003, Slaughter publicly defended the impending Iraq invasion as "legitimate," apart from the question of whether it was illegal. Slaughter later advocated moving past the earlier debate on the Iraq invasion, a position criticized by some who opposed the war as self-serving.^[9]

Slaughter also serves on the Advisory Board of the National Security Network and the Brookings Doha Center.

Diplomatic career

On January 23, 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.^[1]

At the State Department, Slaughter is co-leader of the Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review.^[10]

Publications

• G. John Ikenberry, Thomas J. Knock, Anne-Marie Slaughter & Tony Smith, The Crisis of American Foreign Policy: Wilsonianism in the Twenty-first Century, Princeton University Press, 2008.

• Slaughter, A.-M., A. Moravcsik, W.A. Burke-White. 2005. Liberal Theory of International Law. New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming.

• Slaughter, A.-M. 2004. A New World Order: Government Networks and the Disaggregated State. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

• Goldstein, J., M. Kahler, R.O. Keohane, and A.-M. Slaughter, eds. 2000. Legalization and world politics: A special issue of international organization. International Organization, 54.

• Ratner, S.R., and A.-M. Slaughter, eds. 1999. Symposium on method in international law: A special issue of the American Journal of International Law. American Journal of International Law, 93.

• Slaughter, A.-M., A. Stone Sweet, and J.H.H. Weiler, eds. 1997. The European Courts and National Courts: Doctrine and Jurisprudence. Oxford: Hart Publishing.

• Slaughter, A.-M. 2000. International Law and International Relations Theory: Millennial Lectures. Hague Academy of International Law, Summer.

• Slaughter, A.-M., and K. Raustiala. 2001. Considering compliance. In Handbook of International Relations, edited by Walter Carlnaes, Thomas Risse, and Beth Simmons. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

References

External links

• Slaughter's home page at Princeton
• Texts by Slaughter at openDemocracy
• Princeton Project on National Security
• AmericaAbroad blog
• Networks and States in World Politics
• Videos of debates and discussions involving Anne-Marie Slaughter on Bloggingheads.tv