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Anne-Marie Slaughter
Slaughter in 2019
25th Director of Policy Planning
In office
January 23, 2009 – January 23, 2011
PresidentBarack Obama
Preceded byDavid F. Gordon
Succeeded byJake Sullivan
Personal details
Born (1958-09-27) September 27, 1958 (age 67)
Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S.
SpouseAndrew Moravcsik
EducationPrinceton University (BA)
Worcester College, Oxford (MPhil, DPhil)
Harvard University (JD)
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Anne-Marie Slaughter (born September 27, 1958) is an American lawyer and political scientist, and author. She is the current president and CEO of New America (formerly the New America Foundation).

Previously, Slaughter served as the dean of Princeton School of Public and International Affairs from 2002 to 2009. From 2009 to 2011, she was the director of policy planning for the U.S. State Department under U.S. secretary of state Hillary Clinton, the first woman to hold the position. Later, She also served as a president of the American Society of International Law.

Slaughter has received several awards for her work including: the Woodrow Wilson School R.W. van de Velde Award, 1979; the Thomas Jefferson Medal in Law, University of Virginia and Thomas Jefferson Foundation, 2007; Distinguished Service Medal, U.S. Secretary of state 2011; Louis B. Sohn Award for Public International Law, American Bar association, 2012.[1] She is also on the global advisory board of Oxford University's journal Global Summitry: Politics, Economics, and Law in International Governance.[2]

Early life and education

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Slaughter was born in Charlottesville, Virginia to a Belgian mother, Anne Marie Denise Limbosch, and an American father, Edward Ratliff Slaughter Jr., a lawyer.[3][4][5][6] Her paternal grandfather was Edward Slaughter, a football player, athletic coach, and professor of physical education.[7] She graduated from St. Anne's-Belfield School in 1976.[citation needed]

Slaughter attended the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, where she graduated magna cum laude with an B.A. from in 1980.[8] Mentored by Richard H. Ullman,[9] She received her M.Phil. in international affairs from Worcester College, Oxford, in 1982 and her J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1985. She received her D.Phil. in international relations from Oxford in 1992.[10][11][12]

Slaughter received honorary degrees from the University of Miami in 2006, the University of Warwick in 2013, and Tufts University in 2014.[13] She also received the University of Virginia's Thomas Jefferson Medal in 2007. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Academic career

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Slaughter served on the faculty of the University of Chicago Law School from 1989 to 1994 and then as J. Sinclair Armstrong Professor of International, Foreign, and Comparative Law on the faculty of Harvard Law School from 1994 to 2002. She then moved to Princeton to serve as dean of the Woodrow Wilson School from 2002 to 2009. She became the first woman to hold that position.[14][15] During her deanship, she oversaw the creation of several research centers and academic programs. During the academic year 2007–2008, Slaughter was a visiting fellow at the Shanghai Institute for International Affairs.[16] Following her government service, she returned to Princeton in 2011 as a professor.[17]

Public service

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In January 2009, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton appointed Slaughter as the director of policy planning.[18][19] She became the first woman to hold this position.[20] In this role, she was chief architect of the Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review, a report intended to guide the State Department's strategic planning.[21][22]

Slaughter remains a consultant for the State Department and sits on the secretary of state's Foreign Policy Advisory Board.[23]

Business career

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She began her law career at the corporate firm Simpson Thacher and is currently on the corporate board of Abt Global (formerly Abt Associates).[24] She was previously on the board of the McDonald's Corporation and that of the Citigroup Economic and Political Strategies Advisory Group.[4]

In 2011, she was elected to the American Philosophical Society.[25]

In 2013, Slaughter was named president and CEO of the New America Foundation, a think-tank based in Washington, D.C.[26]

In 2017, The New York Times[27] alleged that Slaughter had closed the Open Markets research group and dismissed its director Barry Lynn because he had criticized Google, a major donor of New America, and called for it to be broken up.[28] Slaughter denied that Open Markets was closed because of pressure from Google and said Lynn was dismissed because he had "repeatedly violated the standards of honesty and good faith with his colleagues."[29] New America co-chair Jonathan Soros wrote in a letter that Google had neither "attempted to interfere" nor "threaten[ed] funding" over Open Markets research critical of monopolies.[30] In a letter to New America's board and leadership, 25 former and current New America fellows said that although they had "never experienced any efforts by donors or managers at New America to influence [their] work," they "were troubled by the initial lack of transparency and communication from New America's leadership" and "remained deeply concerned about this sequence of events".[31]

Slaughter has served on the boards of numerous non-profit organizations, including the Council of Foreign Relations, the New America Foundation, the National Endowment for Democracy, the National Security Network and the Brookings Doha Center. She is a member of the advisory board of the Center for New American Security, the Truman Project, and the bipartisan Development Council of the Center for Strategic and International Studies. In 2006, she chaired the Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on Democracy Promotion. From 2004 to 2007, she was a co-director of the Princeton Project on National Security.[4]

Slaughter has participated in Dialog, a secretive, invite-only social club founded by Peter Thiel and Auren Hoffman.[32]

Writing

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Slaughter has written extensively on European Union politics, network theories of world politics, transjudicial communication, liberal theories of international law and international relations, American foreign policy, international law, and various types of policy analysis. She has written books: International Law and International Relations (2000), A New World Order (2004), The Idea that is America: Keeping Faith with our Values in a Dangerous World (2007), and The Crisis of American Foreign Policy: Wilsonianism in the Twenty-first Century (with G. John Ikenberry, Thomas J. Knock, and Tony Smith) (2008), as well as three edited volumes on international relations and international law, and over one hundred extended articles in scholarly and policy journals or books.[33]

The article in The Atlantic became the basis of the 2015 book Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family.[34] The book argues that a number of challenges remain for the women's movement in the US. It allows her to expands on her position in the article and respond to her critics. In Unfinished Business, she attempts to create a framework to understand the problems faced by all working parents, not just women.[35]

Since leaving the State Department, Slaughter remains a frequent commentator on foreign policy issues. She has written a regular opinion column for Project Syndicate since January 2012.[36][37]

Slaughter's article titled "Why Women Still Can't Have it All" appeared in the July/August 2012 issue of The Atlantic.[23] In the first four days after publication, the piece attracted 725,000 unique readers, making it the most popular article ever published in that magazine.[38][39] In the same period, it received over 119,000 Facebook "Recommends," making it by far the most "liked" piece ever to appear in any version of the magazine. Within several days, it had been discussed in detail on the front page of The New York Times[40] and in many other media outlets,[41] attracting attention from around the world.[42] Although Slaughter originally tried to call the article "Why Women Can't Have it All Yet," she has since stated that it was a mistake to use the phrase "Have it All" in general.[43] In 2015, Slaughter clarified that she hoped to stimulate a discussion about a wide range of working mothers, not only those in prestigious or lucrative careers.[44]

Personal life

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Slaughter is married to Princeton politics professor Andrew Moravcsik, with whom she has two children: Alex and Michael Moravcsik.[45][46]

Selected works

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  • Slaughter, Anne-Marie (2021). Renewal: From Crisis to Transformation in Our Lives, Work, and Politics. The Public Square. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-21056-8.
  • Slaughter, Anne-Marie (2017). The Chessboard and the Web: Strategies of Connection in a Networked World. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300215649.
  • Slaughter, Anne-Marie (2015). Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family. New York: Random House. ISBN 9780345812896.
  • Slaughter, Anne-Marie (2007). The Idea That Is America: Keeping Faith with Our Values in a Dangerous World. New York: Basic Books. ISBN 9780465078080.
  • Slaughter, Anne-Marie (2004). A New World Order. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691123974.

References

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  5. ^ "From Mother to Daughter on 'Having it All'". NPR. May 9, 2013. Retrieved December 25, 2015.
  6. ^ "Fifteen Years Later". Princeton University. 1968. Retrieved December 25, 2015.
  7. ^ Slaughter, Anne-Marie (September 29, 2015). "Then+she+met+Edward+"Butch"+Slaughter,+an+assistant+football+coach"&pg=PT220 Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family. Random House. ISBN 9780345812919. Retrieved December 25, 2015.
  8. ^ Slaughter, Anne Marie (1980). "Creativity and Change: The Cultural Opposition and Soviet Reform: Implications for United States Human Rights Policy". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  9. ^ "Diplomatic historian and foreign policy scholar Richard Ullman dies". princeton.edu.
  10. ^ Fellowship in memory of Rhodes Scholar from Princeton who studied at Worcester College, Oxford, Daniel M. Sachs. Princeton.edu.
  11. ^ "Resume of Anne-Marie Slaughter" (PDF). Retrieved June 24, 2012.
  12. ^ "Anne-Marie Slaughter '76 Speaks to Upper School". The Upper School Weekly Digest. St. Anne's-Belfield School. March 22, 2012. Retrieved January 5, 2014. Anne-Marie Slaughter '76, acclaimed teacher, commentator, and writer in the field of international relations, returned to campus Wednesday to speak...
  13. ^ "Anne-Marie Slaughter — Honorary Graduate". University of Warwick. July 18, 2013. Retrieved December 25, 2015.
  14. ^ Brush, Silla (May 15, 2002). "Slaughter '80 named Wilson School dean". The Daily Princetonian. Archived from the original on March 5, 2006. Retrieved June 24, 2012.
  15. ^ "Administration". Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Archived from the original on June 30, 2012. Retrieved June 24, 2012.
  16. ^ 万户网络. "上海国际问题研究院". en.siis.org.cn. Archived from the original on November 13, 2014. Retrieved June 8, 2016.
  17. ^ Thiel, Samantha (February 1, 2011). "Slaughter '80 returns to Wilson School". The Daily Princetonian. Archived from the original on April 2, 2012. Retrieved June 24, 2012.
  18. ^ Bade, Rachael (November 30, 2015). "Anne-Marie Slaughter 'devastated' by Clinton's take on her 'have it all' article". Politico. Retrieved December 25, 2015.
  19. ^ "Official State Department Biography: Dr. Anne-Marie Slaughter". U. S. State Department. January 27, 2009. Archived from the original on July 10, 2011.
  20. ^ "Biography: Anne-Marie Slaughter, Director Policy Planning". U. S. State Department. Archived from the original on January 13, 2013.
  21. ^ Long, Emily (July 15, 2009). "State Department launches quadrennial review". Government Executive. Archived from the original on December 26, 2009. Retrieved November 13, 2009.
  22. ^ LaFranchi, Howard (December 15, 2010). "Hillary Clinton's vision for foreign policy on a tight budget". The Christian Science Monitor. Archived from the original on January 19, 2011. Retrieved January 15, 2011.
  23. ^ a b Slaughter, Anne-Marie (July–August 2012). "Why Women Still Can't Have It All". The Atlantic.
  24. ^ "Who We Are". Abt Associates. Retrieved May 8, 2019.
  25. ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved March 29, 2021.
  26. ^ "New America Staff". Archived from the original on May 7, 2013. Retrieved May 6, 2013.
  27. ^ Vogel, Kenneth (August 30, 2017). "Google Critic Ousted From Think Tank Funded by the Tech Giant". The New York Times. Retrieved August 30, 2017.
  28. ^ Lynn, Barry (June 27, 2017). "Open Markets Applauds the European Commission's Finding Against Google for Abuse of Dominance". New America. Retrieved September 7, 2017.
  29. ^ Slaughter, Anne-Marie (September 2017). "When The Truth is Messy and Hard". Medium. Retrieved September 9, 2017.
  30. ^ Tiku, Nitasha (September 6, 2017). "New America Chair Says Google Didn't Prompt Critic's Ouster". Wired. Retrieved September 9, 2017.
  31. ^ Kulwin, Noah (September 5, 2017). "Google critic's firing sparks backlash within New America's ranks". Vice News.
  32. ^ Allen, Mike (August 7, 2025). "Scoop: Dialog, a secretive forum, plans D.C.-area campus". Axios. Retrieved September 1, 2025.
  33. ^ "Slaughter, Anne-Marie | Princeton University Press". press.princeton.edu. Retrieved February 28, 2025.
  34. ^ Blair, Elaine (September 23, 2015). "Anne-Marie Slaughter's 'Unfinished Business'". The New York Times.
  35. ^ Williams, Joan C. "Look how Far We've Come (Not)Unfinished Business: Women, Men, Work, Family. by Anne-Marie Slaughter. New York: Random House, 2015." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, vol. 42, no. 2, 2017, pp. 561-563.
  36. ^ "Anne-Marie Slaughter". Project Syndicate. Retrieved June 24, 2012.
  37. ^ "Beyond Work / Life: Changing the Debate % Making Change". SXSW. March 9, 2013. Retrieved December 25, 2015.
  38. ^ "Power Luncheon with Anne-Marie Slaughter". Ellevate. May 21, 2013. Retrieved December 25, 2015.
  39. ^ "Anne-Marie Slaughter on work-life balance without the struggle". CBC. October 14, 2015. Retrieved December 25, 2015.
  40. ^ Kantor, Jodi (June 21, 2012). "Elite Women Put a New Spin on an Old Debate". The New York Times.
  41. ^ "Record Hits On Mag's 'Can't Have It All' Story". NPR. June 22, 2012. Retrieved June 24, 2012.[permanent dead link]
  42. ^ "The gender debate, at least, has had it all". Globe and Mail. July 21, 2012.
  43. ^ Van Syckle, Katie (December 14, 2012). "Eight Things We Learned From Anne-Marie Slaughter's Lecture Circuit". The Cut. Retrieved December 25, 2015.
  44. ^ "Interview with Clara Jeffrey". October 7, 2015. Retrieved December 25, 2015.
  45. ^ "Short biography". Andrew Moravcsik. Retrieved August 23, 2008.
  46. ^ Princeton Weekly Bulletin, April 30, 2007 p.1-7
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