Anne-Marie Slaughter

Dean, Woodrow Wilson School
Bert G. Kerstetter '66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs

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Anne-Marie Slaughter is Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Bert G. Kerstetter '66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University. Prior to becoming Dean, she was the J. Sinclair Armstrong Professor of International, Foreign and Comparative Law and the Director of Graduate and International Legal Studies at Harvard Law School. She is also the former President of the American Society of International Law.

Among other honors, Slaughter gave a set of Millennial Lectures at the Hague Academy of International Law in 2000 and won the Francis Deak Prize (awarded by the American Journal of International Law) in both 1990 and 1994. She holds a Doctor of Laws honoris causa from the University of Miami School of Law. In 2007, she will receive the Thomas Jefferson Medal in Law from the University of Virginia and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation.

Educated at Princeton, Oxford, and Harvard in both international law and international relations, Slaughter writes and publishes in both fields. Indeed, her work at the juncture of the two disciplines helped pioneer the current emphasis on cross-fertilization between international relations and international law. She recently published "Why States Create International Tribunals: A Response to Professors Posner and Yoo" (with Laurence R. Helfer) in the California Law Review and "The Future of International Law is Domestic" (with William Burke-White) in the Harvard International Law Journal.

Dean Slaughter is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and serves on the board of the Council on Foreign Relations. Her book, A New World Order, was published by Princeton University Press in 2004. Her current book, The Idea That Is America: Keeping Faith with Our Values in a Dangerous World, is forthcoming from Basic Books in 2007.

Publications
The Idea That Is America: Keeping Faith with Our Values in a Dangerous World by Anne-Marie Slaughter
(Basic Books, forthcoming 2007)

A leading voice in global affairs calls us back to America's founding principles--and shows how they can guide us forward into the twenty-first century When Army Captain Ian Fishback decided to blow the whistle on prisoner abuse in Iraq and Afghanistan, he posed the central question facing America in the new century: "Will we confront danger in order to preserve our ideals, or will courage and commitment to individual rights wither at the prospect of sacrifice?... I would rather die fighting than give up even the smallest part of the idea that is 'America.'" But what is this idea? George W. Bush waged war in Iraq in the name of American values--liberty and democracy. His critics in the United States and around the world also use the language of values, and attack him for deceiving a nation to wage an unjust war. What are the values that America truly stands for? In The Idea That Is America, a preeminent foreign policy scholar eloquently reminds us of the essential principles on which our nation was established: liberty, democracy, equality, tolerance, faith, justice, and humility. 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. In The Idea That Is America, Anne-Marie Slaughter shows us the way forward.