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Institutional
Affiliations
Foundation for the Defense of Democracies: Member, Board of Directors (1)
Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs: Member, Board of Advisors (2)
Freedom House: Member, Executive Committee and Board of Directors (3)
Ethics and Public Policy Center: Chair and Member, Board of Directors (3)
Empower America: Co-Founder and Member, Board of Directors (3)
International Republican Institute: Member, Board of Directors (3)
Henry M. Jackson Foundation: Member, Board of Governors (3)
UN Watch: Member, Board of Directors (3)
American Alternative Foundation: Member, Board of Directors (3)
Institute of American Universities, Aix en Provence, France: Trustee (3)
Council on Foreign Relations: Member (3)
Center for a Free Cuba: Member, Board of Directors (3)
National Committee on American Foreign Policy: Member, Board of Advisors (4)
New Atlantic Initiative (American Enterprise Institute): Member International Advisory Board (5)
Project for the New American Century: Signed several PNAC advocacy letters (13)
U.S. Committee for a Free Lebanon: Golden Circle supporter (14)
Nicaraguan Freedom Fund: Vice president (6)
Committee for the Free World: Member, Board of Directors (7)
Cuban American National Fund: Member, advisory committee (8)
Coalition for a Democratic Majority: Member (9)
Social Democrats-USA: Member (10)
American Security Council: Active participant (11)
Committee on the Present Danger: Member (12)
Government
Posts/Panels/Commissions
U.S. Representative to the UN Human Rights Commission (2003) (3)
Secretary of Defense Commission on Fail Safe and Risk Reduction: Chairperson (1991-1992) (2)
Defense Policy Review Board: Member (1985-1993) (2)
President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board: Member (1985-1990) (2)
U.S. Representative to the United Nations (1981-85) (3)
National Security Council: Member during Reagan administration (3)
Education
Columbia University: Ph.D., Political Science (3)
Institute de Science Politique in Paris: French Government Fellow (3)
Columbia University: M.A., Political Science (3)
Barnard College: A.B. (1, 3)
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Highlights
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Jeane Kirkpatrick, the ambassador to the United Nations during the Reagan administration, is a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. She has worked for a long line of hardline advocacy groups reaching back to the early 1970s, including the Coalition for a Democratic Majority, the Committee on the Present Danger, Midge Decter's Committee for the Free World, and the notorious Cuban American National Fund, which was founded by fanatic anti-Castro Cuban émigré Jorge Mas Canosa. More recently, Kirkpatrick has supported the work of William Kristol's Project for the New American Century, William Bennett's Empower America, and the Likudnik Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs.
During the heyday of the Cold War in the 1980s, while the United States was busy rolling back leftist revolutions (and propping up right wing client governments) throughout the Americas, Kirkpatrick became notorious for her efforts to distinguish between "authoritarian" and "totalitarian" regimes. She argued that "rightist authoritarian regimes can be transformed peacefully into democracies, but totalitarian Marxist ones cannot. They can be changed only by aiding armed opponents of communism. In the final analysis these enemies of freedom can only be deterred from greater aggression . . . by the military capacities of the United States." (9)
Kirkpatrick's work at the American Enterprise Institute has focused on national security, the United Nations, Europe, Latin America, and the countries of the former Soviet Union.
Her books include The Withering Away of the Totalitarian State, Legitimacy and Force, The Reagan Phenomenon, Dictatorships and Double Standards, Dismantling the Parties, Reflections on Party Reform an Party Decomposition, The New Presidential Elite, Political Woman, and Leader and Vanguard in Mass Society: A Study of Peronist Argentina. (2)
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