Associate professor of history at temple university. Shes a specialist in transnational culture, gender history and the history of cultural globalization. Shes a coeditor of the one of the most important journals in the field, diplomatic history. And her publications include two books. Now, of course, politics of peace published by oxford this year. Its based on this book that she will be speaking to us today. She has coedited two books, the human rights revolution, oxford 2012, and the oxford handbook of the cold war published in 2013. Today she will be speaking on, quote, if you want peace, detours on the path to politics of peace in the early cold war. You have the floor. Thank you very much. Thanks to christian, eric, to peter, rachel and everybody else who makes this possible for inviting me. Its a great honor to be here. I was embarrassed to have to admit i had never been here. Im going to try and make an effort, because i realize philadelphia is not that far from washington, at
We are going to get all right i think well get started, i know there is a quick lunch but we have a very fall day. So great that was a great introduction and now we have a interesting discussion that we can turn to and for me this is a real honor and a personal privilege to introduce our lunch and guest. Susan is no stranger to the womens Foreign Policy group and throughout her career she has represented the best of the values that we promote at the womens Foreign Policy group. We all know are from her public life in the Clinton Administration and. She served as one of the youngest secretaries of state and then went on to service the u. S. Ambassador to the United States and then a National Security adviser to president obama. And her terrific new book and susan takes us behind the scenes of u. S. Foreign policy making from the rwanda and genocide the bombing of two she gives a clear insight into these and other tough National Security moments. Susan it was in the room at the table and
All right i think well get started, i know there is a quick lunch but we have a very fall day. So great that was a great introduction and now we have a interesting discussion that we can turn to and for me this is a real honor and a personal privilege to introduce our lunch and guest. Susan is no stranger to the womens Foreign Policy group and throughout her career she has represented the best of the values that we promote at the womens Foreign Policy group. We all know are from her public life in the Clinton Administration and. She served as one of the youngest secretaries of state and then went on to service the u. S. Ambassador to the United States and then a National Security adviser to president obama. And her terrific new book and susan takes us behind the scenes of u. S. Foreign policy making from the rwanda and genocide the bombing of two she gives a clear insight into these and other tough National Security moments. Susan it was in the room at the table and even in the crossha
All right, everyone find your table, please. You will have time to mingle during lunch. Good afternoon, everyone. And welcome to our annual event, celebrating womens leadership. Can i have your attention . Thank you. Again, thank you. Good afternoon, everyone and welcome to our big annual event celebrating womens leadership. Im lois romano, culture of the board of directors and im going to be brief because we have a pretty full program. On behalf of myself and my cochair, kathy russell, ambassador kathy russell, thank you all for your support and for being here today to honor three phenomenal women for their service to our country and for their contributions to National Security. We all know that with more women at the top and more women at the table, better policy is made. It fosters global democracy, gender equality and peace. Thats our goal here, and its what we do best. I i would like to acknowledge or diplomatic colleagues who are here, both americans have served abroad, ambassado
Former department of Homeland Security adviser for the obama administration. Ok, thank you. Thats exactly right. Now we have to recognize the Senior Member here. Well, it is a treat to welcome former colleagues, current colleagues. Ive worked with every member of this panel in some form or another, inside and outside of government. Its a treat to welcome everyone here on behalf of the center of law and security on the nyu school of law that i am privileged to serve as a distinguished senior fellow at. Welcome to this program and welcome to my colleagues. This is really a treat for me to be joined together with you once again to talk about a really important and timely subject, the issue of National Security and how the executive branch and the legislative branch address some of the most Critical Issues of our time, and i will do some very brief introductions in a minute, but you will understand the theme here is every single one of these distinguished Public Servants served in the exec