Anne-Marie Slaughter, a former director of policy planning in the US State Department (2009-2011) and a former dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, is Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University. She is the author of The Idea That Is America: Keeping Faith with Our Values in a Dangerous World.
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Commentaries by Anne-Marie Slaughter
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The Syria Lessons
PRINCETON – As the United States and Russia try to broker a conference that can bring the various sides in the Syrian conflict to the negoti…
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The Message from Boston
PRINCETON – America has grown up. Public reaction to the Boston Marathon bombings and the identity of the perpetrators reveals a very differ…
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A New-State Solution for Israel and Palestine
PRINCETON – Imagine a two-state solution in Israel and Palestine in which Palestinians would have the right of return; Israelis could settle…
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The Coming Atlantic Century
PRINCETON – The United States is rising; Europe is stabilizing; and both are moving closer together. That was the principal message earlier …
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Obama’s Year of Iran
PRINCETON – As US President Barack Obama begins his second term, he will have to devote much of his attention to figuring out how to get Ame…
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The Fiscal Cliff and US Foreign Policy
PRINCETON – The world should be worried. The possibility that US President Barack Obama and the Republicans in Congress will fail to reach a…
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Saving General Petraeus
PRINCETON – The United States has moved from the high of a presidential election to the low of a political sex scandal in one short week. Fo…
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Overcautious Obama
PRINCETON – In this election season in the United States, President Barack Obama is two men in one. The Obama of the Cairo speech of 2009, w…
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Blood Sport Politics
PRINCETON – Former US President Bill Clinton gave one of the best speeches of his life at the recent Democratic National Convention. One of …
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The Media Cold War
PRINCETON – An information war has erupted around the world. The battle lines are drawn between those governments that regard the free flow …
The Syria Lessons
Ammar Nouri: Simply bless you Anne-Marie Slaughter. You managed to make me tear and that is not somehing comon my family sees as I read articles. Your words were as if you have put your fingers on a bleeding wound…
The Syria Lessons
Christopher Nelson: The President's strategy doesn't suggest "speak loudly and throw away your stick," it suggests speaking firmly and ensuring we don't end up using a stick to beat ourselves upside the head (i.e., much …