Anne-Marie Slaughter

Former Director of Policy Planning at the Department of State

Anne-Marie Slaughter is the president and CEO of the New America Foundation and the Bert G. Kerstetter 66 University Professor Emerita of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University. From 2009 to 2011, she served as the director of policy planning for the Department of State, the first woman to hold that position. Prior to her government service, Slaughter was the dean of Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the J. Sinclair Armstrong Professor of International, Foreign, and Comparative Law at Harvard Law School. She has written or edited six books, including “A New World Order” and “The Idea That Is America: Keeping Faith with Our Values in a Dangerous World”, and is a frequent contributor to a number of publications, including The Atlantic and Project Syndicate. She is a member of the Aspen Strategy Group.

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Containment Is Not Enough: ISIS Must Be Defeated

With Michèle Flournoy, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Dov Zakheim, Philip Zelikow

August 9, 2015

In June 2014, the Sunni militant group ISIS declared that it had established a new caliphate spanning territory in Syria and Iraq. Since then, the region under its control has expanded, despite airstrikes and the deployment of U.S. military advisors, and Jihadist groups across the Muslim world have pledged their allegiance. What should the Obama administration’s next steps be? Should the U.S. goal be containment, or can ISIS be defeated?

Containment Is Not Enough: ISIS Must Be Defeated

With Michèle Flournoy, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Dov Zakheim, Philip Zelikow

August 9, 2015

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Containment Is Not Enough: ISIS Must Be Defeated

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