Anne Marie Slaughter

Confessions of a Development Dilettante

Ming Holden | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Developing World, Anne-Marie Slaughter, International Relations, Developing Countries, International Development, Foreign Policy, Culture News
Ming Holden

Could the artist's fidelity to the information of the body offer a kind of perspective on and practice of development work that might well fit the 21st century?

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America Does Not Happen By Accident

Ming Holden | Posted 03.17.2012

Read More: Youth, Democratic Republic of Congo, Congo Rape, Horn of Africa, Nairobi, Congo, Youth Empowerment, Youth Activism, Post-Conflict, Madeleine Albright, Community Development, Survival Girls, Africa, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Ptsd, Kenya, Foreign Aid, Ronan Farrow, Mia Farrow, Video, Impact News
Ming Holden

Simply put, America needs not to abandon foreign aid because if it did so, it would forfeit leadership.

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Kenya Dispatch: The End of Structure

Ming Holden | Posted 02.20.2012

Read More: Youth, Somalia, Collaborative Power, Horn of Africa, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Al'Shabaab, Kenya, Congo, Election Violence, Ptsd, Refugees, Foreign Policy, Youth Empowerment, Identity Politics, Nairobi, World News
Ming Holden

It wasn't until I mobilized a theater group for female survivors of gang rape at the hands of rebel army soldiers who murdered their parents in front of them that I truly learned what self-expression means to the future of democracy.

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Personal Democracy Forum 2011 -- Agents of Change

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 08.20.2011

Read More: Egypt, Nancy Scola, Mona Eltahawy, Rep. Jason Chaffetz, Technology News, Avaaz, Personal Democracy Forum 2011, Mitchell Baker, Jim Gilliam, Jeremy Heimans, Alaa Abd El Fattah, Public Online Information Act, Jay Rosen, Dannah Boyd, Micah L. Sifry, Marietje Schaake, Emily Parker, Dan Gillmor, Brave New Films, Marko Rakar, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Net Neutrality, Rasha Abdulla, Technology, Andre Rasiej, pdf2011, Technology News
Marcia G. Yerman

When dictators understand the power of social and mobile, they move toward controlling it or shutting it down. There was hearty agreement that access to the Internet should be an "international right."

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What is America's Story for the 21st Century?

John Milewski | Posted 06.21.2011

Read More: Thomas Friedman, Steve Clemons, National Strategic Narrative, Brent Scowcroft, Narrative, 9/11, Globalization, Keith Ellison, Mr. Y, Post Cold War, Robert Kagan, Mark Mykleby, Wayne Porter, Jane Harman, National Security, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Partisanship, National Conversation, Politics News
John Milewski

When we ask ourselves why we are committing military might in Libya (or Afghanistan, or Iraq), we're really asking bigger questions. What is our purpose in the world? What is the story that defines our friends and our foes?

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Why Intervention in Libya Is Wrong in the Long Run

Alex Becker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Anne-Marie Slaughter, Steve Clemons, Libya No Fly Zone, Libya Protests, Gaddafi, Gaddafi Ceasefire, Libya Intervention, UN Libya, Libya Revolution, Muammar Gaddafi, World News
Alex Becker

Any nation participating in military intervention in Libya stands to gain perhaps a little from perfect success and lose much from anything less.

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Supporting a No-Fly Zone Is Still Fiddling: Responding to Anne-Marie Slaughter

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Egypt, Bill Clinton, No-Fly Zone, John McCain, Nato, Muammar Gaddafi, Revolution, John Kerry, Joseph Lieberman, Defense Policy, Libya, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Freedom Revolution, Bill Richardson, Foreign Policy, Politics News
Steve Clemons

The stampede to a no-fly zone in Libya doesn't solve the core underlying issues that it isn't efficacious, could rob protesters of their own narrative and even of their political legitimacy, and doesn't give them the tools they really need to win.

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Hillary Clinton, Madame X & Rajiv Shah Release QDDR

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pentagon, Anthony Zinni, Crisis Stabilization, Qddr, Development and Diplomacy, Hillary Clinton, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Rajiv Shah, Usaid, Politics News
Steve Clemons

I will be writing more soon about the just released Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review, the first ever -- but wanted to post this video of...

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Wikileaks Showdown: The Elusive Digital Anarchist vs. The Godmother of 21st Century Statecraft

Andrew Rosen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cyberspace, Unabomber, 21st Century Statecraft, Hillary Clinton Secretary of State, Julian Assange, Hillary Clinton, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Wikileaks, Technology News
Andrew Rosen

Neither party, much less anyone, can lay claim to the future of diplomacy in cyberspace without first understanding the incentives of citizens to engage in their respective country's foreign policy in cyberspace.

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How to Succeed in the Networked Century

Bradley W. Bloch | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nate Silver, Social Networks, Social Networking, Major League Baseball, Foreign Affairs, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Hillary Clinton, Basketball, State Department, Foreign Policy, Politics News
Bradley W. Bloch

Anne-Marie Slaughter argues that the our future lies in positioning ourselves as the world's most networked nation, the hub of information, ideas, and resources flowing though the global economy.

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