BCSIA Student Fellows Session with Amb Nancy Soderberg

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The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs is proud to host a BCSIA Student/Fellows Seminar with Ambassador Nancy Soderberg, Vice President of the International Crisis Group, and former Senior Representative to the UN for the United States.

With nearly twenty years of experience in the formation of U.S. foreign policy, Ms. Soderberg has a deep understanding of policy-making and negotiations at the highest levels of government and the United Nations. She has promoted democracy and conflict resolution worldwide.  Ms. Soderberg achieved international recognition for her efforts to promote peace in Northern Ireland; participated in a United Nations’ mission to Indonesia and East Timor; negotiated key United Nations’ resolutions regarding the Middle East and Africa; conducted shuttle diplomacy in Latin America; assisted in the development of the Administration’s policy of political and economic normalization with Vietnam; and advised the president on policies toward China, Japan, Russia, Angola, the Balkans, Haiti, as well as on a variety of conflicts in Africa.

From 1997 to 2001, Ms. Soderberg served as Alternate Representative to the United Nations as a Presidential Appointee, with the rank of Ambassador.  Her responsibilities included representing the United States at the Security Council on a wide range of current national security issues, including conflict resolution, promotion of democracy abroad, trade policy, and arms control.  She represented the United States in negotiations at the Security Council, participated in missions to key conflict areas, and promoted U.S. national security policy at the United Nations and with the leadership of other nations.  From 1993-97, Ms. Soderberg served as the third ranking official of the National Security Council at the White House, as Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs.  She was responsible for day-to-day crisis management, briefing the President, developing U.S. national security policy at the highest levels of government, and handling issues regarding the press and Congress

Ms. Soderberg publishes and speaks regularly on national security policy.  Her forthcoming book, The Superpower Myth, was released this month. In it she details the successful foreign policy strategy of the Clinton Administration and provides critical insight into the decision making process all presidents face in global affairs.  As a White House insider, Soderberg discusses the back door channels of international diplomacy, analyzes recent history through first-person accounts, declassified documents and private interviews.  Detailing her experiences in the global political arena, she vividly describes the successful decisions, foreign policy subtleties and complex negotiations of the last decade to argue America’s unique superpower status in the World comes with responsibility.  Soderberg challenges the Bush administration’s hegemonic policy prescriptions and concludes that to make America safe again, the next Administration – Republican or Democratic – must galvanize world opinion in favor of America’s goals.

RSVP REQUIRED!

Please RSVP to Cara Fitzpatrick by email at cara_fitzpatrick@ksg.harvard.edu or at 495-3745. Be sure to specify the event you will be attending. As space is limited for this event, RSVPs will be accepted on a first come - first served basis.