Madeleine Albright speaks about the role of women in the advancement of democracy
The Institute for the Study of the Americas (ISA) co-sponsored public lecture by Madeleine Albright, US United Nations ambassador in Bill Clinton’s first administration (1993-1997) and Secretary of State in Clinton’s second administration (1997-2001), on women advancing democracy was held on Friday 2 December.
Mixing her commentary with personal experiences and thoughts on government policy, Secretary Albright spoke to an audience of 450 people on the role of women advancing democracy. She then spent an hour answering the audience’s erudite questions on a series of topics ranging from the declining appeal of feminism to many younger women today through to her experiences of gender discrimination to her personal views on the North Korean leader Kim Jong-il.
Secretary Albright also granted Dr. Matthew Alan Hill, postdoctoral research fellow at ISA, a long personal interview for the ISA project on the multidimensional relationship between women and US foreign policy, which is sponsored by the SAS Dean’s Development Fund. The highly productive interview will be an important addition to the online repository of project oral histories and help advertise the project to other potential interviewees.
The lecture also served as the launch of a LSE Ideas special report on US foreign policy entitled: The United States After Unipolarity. This included an article by Professor Iwan Morgan, Director of the US Presidency Centre at ISA, examining the relationship between America’s global power and its economy.
The event was co-sponsored by ISA, LSE IDEAS and the Madeleine Korbel Albright Institute for Global Affairs at Wellesley College.
