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  Jeane Kirkpatrick - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jeane Jordan Kirkpatrick (born November 19, 1926) is an American conservative political scientist and member of the neoconservative movement.
Born Jeane Duane Jordan in Duncan, Oklahoma, she graduated from Barnard College in 1948 after transferring from Stephens College, and received a doctorate in political science from Columbia University in 1968.
Kirkpatrick published a number of articles in political science journals reflecting her disillusionment with the Democratic party, and was especially critical of the foreign policy of Democratic President Jimmy Carter.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jeane_Kirkpatrick   (1277 words)

  
 Why War? Keywords: Jeane Kirkpatrick   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
An ardent anti-communist, she is famous for her Kirkpatrick Doctrine, which advocates US support of communist-opposing governments around the world.
Jeane Kirkpatrick, born Jeane Duane Jordan in Duncan, Oklahoma, graduated from Barnard College in 1948, and received a doctorate in political science from Columbia University in 1968.
She later became a member of Reagan's national security team, where she was accused of accepting bribes, falsifying tapes that implicated Soviet forces in the shooting down of a South Korean passenger jet (Flight 007) on September 1, 1983, and advocating the dismantling of India, all of which she denied.
www.why-war.com /encyclopedia/people/Jeane_Kirkpatrick   (662 words)

  
 BookRags: Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Biography
Jeane J. Kirkpatrick (born 1926) was a professor, a Democrat turned Republican, and the first woman to serve as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
Jeane Jordan Kirkpatrick was born November 19, 1926, in Duncan, Oklahoma.
Kirkpatrick complained that the information and direction to abstain arrived too late, casting blame on the administrative apparatus and ultimately the secretary of state.
www.bookrags.com /biography/jeane-j-kirkpatrick   (1147 words)

  
 Online NewsHour: United Nations and Foreign Relations -- February 26, 1998
Kirkpatrick said what we've all said here so far, is that this was a hope, a dream, but to do it, you had to work in concert; there had to be a willingness to give up nationalism and work together to have a peaceful world.
JEANE KIRKPATRICK: Well, he actually said at one point that his fourth--remember when he talked about point four--you remember his famous point four--his point three, as I recall, was that the United Nations should henceforth having been founded be the foundation stone of American foreign policy.
JEANE KIRKPATRICK: I'm willing to say that I think the secretary-general did a very good job, and that it was useful to have--is useful to have the possibility of such a secretary-general and undertaking such a function.
www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/international/jan-june98/un_2-26.html   (2269 words)

  
 WFS - Jean Kirkpatrick
Profile of Jean Kirkpatrick, Ph.D. Dr. Jean Kirkpatrick couldn't cope with the fact that she was the first woman to receive the Fels Fellowship award at the University of Pennsylvania, so she went out and got drunk.
What amazes Dr. Kirkpatrick is not that she was an alcoholic, but that in all the years of her drinking, not once was she diagnosed as alcoholic.
Kirkpatrick continued her education with a Masters Degree in English from Lehigh University in 1954 after having taught a year in a Kansas high school.
www.womenforsobriety.org /wfs_jean.html   (1591 words)

  
 TCS Daily - I Dream of Jeane: An Interview with Fmr. U.N. Ambassador Kirkpatrick
Kirkpatrick spoke candidly in a wide ranging interview that touched on Afghanistan after the Taliban, Russia, missile defense, Saudi Arabia, international coalition politics, Iran, and freedom and democracy around the globe.
Jeane Kirkpatrick: No. And let me just clarify what I believe about this, that if it can't be contained then it must be defeated.
Jeane Kirkpatrick: Pakistan and India have engaged their real conflicts with each other -- deeply felt conflict with one another -- since before their independence with the U.K. Their borders and the very composition of both countries were greatly influenced by that competition.
www.tcsdaily.com /article.aspx?id=111501B   (2374 words)

  
 washingtonpost.com: Kirkpatrick Was Right
At the 1984 Republican National Convention, Jeane Kirkpatrick, then the Reagan administration's U.N. delegate, gave a speech on foreign policy that has stuck with me. She blasted the Democratic Party's approach to foreign affairs, repeating the phrase "the blame America first crowd." I hated the speech at the time, but have recently reread it.
Kirkpatrick's mantra -- blame America first -- mostly applied to the Cold War and the United States' attempt to contain and then roll back communism.
Jeane Kirkpatrick, a former Democrat, put her finger on it 19 years ago.
www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A28081-2003May7?language=printer   (675 words)

  
 Oklahoma State Senate Artwork - Ambassador Jeane J. Kirkpatrick
Jeane Jordan Kirkpatrick was born November 19, 1926, in Duncan, Oklahoma, and graduated from Barnard College in 1948.
As a discerning scholar, political scientist, and advocate for America’s foreign policy, Dr. Kirkpatrick is one of the modern era’s wisest experts on geopolitical issues.
Kirkpatrick is a Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and serves as Co-Founder and Director of Empower America, a conservative public policy organization.
www.oksenate.gov /senate_artwork/jeane_kirkpatrick.html   (336 words)

  
 Jeane J. Kirkpatrick - SourceWatch
Jeane J. Kirkpatrick is believed to be a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and is considered to be a "neo-con" (neo-conservative).
Kirkpatrick is or was on the board of the neoconservative Committee for the Free World.
Kirkpatrick is a scholar at the conservative think tank, the American Enterprise Institute, is or was on the 'faculty' at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS; this is a Georgetown U. think tank), and is or was a faculty as Georgetown Univ.'s Foreign Service School.
www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Jeane_J._Kirkpatrick   (387 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Kirkpatrick
Kirkpatrick, Jeane Duane Jordan KIRKPATRICK, JEANE DUANE JORDAN [Kirkpatrick, Jeane Duane Jordan], 1926-, U.S. public official, b.
Don Kirkpatrick; amid the elegant surroundings, he's growing Quality Foods with an open-collar style.
Interview: Jeane Kirkpatrick discusses her tenure in the Reagan administration
www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Kirkpatrick   (560 words)

  
 Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick Sets Record for Mideast Misinformation
The person who "knows" the most that ain't so about the Israel-Palestine problem is Jeane Kirkpatrick, former UN ambassador under Ronald Reagan and now a foreign policy pundit.
Kirkpatrick is correct, of course, that the problem did not begin in 1967.
Kirkpatrick goes on to assert the occupied territories did not become "important to the Arab-Israeli relationship until after Israel's Arab neighbors had again launched and lost an aggressive war in 1967 against Israel.
www.washington-report.org /backissues/0491/9104034.htm   (924 words)

  
 Alan Keyes ARCHIVES | Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick endorses Alan Keyes
Kirkpatrick: Well, inflammatory is not an asset, but I don't think Alan is inflammatory -- I think he's serious, you know, I think he's quite serious and quite well informed and very articulate.
Kirkpatrick: Well, I think there are two reasons, two reasons that would at least significantly illuminate part of the reason for that.
Kirkpatrick: Because I would suppose that's one difference between Alan as the Ambassador he was, as compared with Barack Obama, because Alan has very substantial knowledge as well as experience with international affairs, which in the Senate ought to be a useful asset.
www.renewamerica.us /archives/media/interviews/04_10_14kirkpatrick.htm   (1345 words)

  
 The United Nations: What's in It for the United States? - Council on Foreign Relations
Jeane was born in Duncan, Oklahoma, and Madeleine in Prague, Czechoslovakia.
KIRKPATRICK: Let me say that no one who had spent four years at the United Nations would have any question about whether the UN is its member states, and the—it is what its member states decide it should be.
KIRKPATRICK: I think that the first requirement of a good secretary-general for the next five years, to lead us into the next century, is that he be really committed to effective administration of the United Nations.
www.cfr.org /publication/77/united_nations.html   (8949 words)

  
 Jeane Kirkpatrick: Diplomat and Mother - Robert R. Selle
Robert R. Selle is an editor in the Current Issues section of The World & I. But the same woman turned her back on the world of work for nearly 14 years to raise three sons, making her just as much a hero to upholders of traditional roles for women.
Kirkpatrick believes that "it made sense to give priority to the kids" while her husband, Evron, who was a professor of government and for many years executive director of the American Political Science Association, supported the family.
Kirkpatrick was born and raised in Duncan, a small town on...
www.worldandi.com /specialreport/1998/august/Sa21833.htm   (203 words)

  
 At the U.N. : The Kirkpatrick Legacy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
If he is to build on the Kirkpatrick legacy, he must be-prepared to address the U.N. problems identified by Kirkpatrick and reduce if necessary the U.S. role and financial'support for those components of the U.N. that promote agendas inimical to U.S interests and the West.
On October 6th, Kirkpatrick sent a letter to most of the U.N. ambassadors of the nonaligned nations, expressing surprise and dismay at the communiqu6, and asking each of them whether the statement actually represented the views of their country.
Kirkpatrick's resolve to take the U.N. seriously prompted her to use the veto in the Security Council when U.S. security interests, or those of U.S. allies and friends, were at stake.
www.heritage.org /Research/InternationalOrganizations/bg416.cfm   (2248 words)

  
 TCS Daily : Authors
Kirkpatrick's first hand experience in the United Nations and as a member of President Reagan's Cabinet and National Security Council gives her an exceptional understanding of the dynamics of global politics.
During her years as U.S. Representative to the United Nations, Jeane Kirkpatrick had a remarkable impact on the foreign policy of the United States in general and on the world as a whole.
Kirkpatrick is Leavey Professor at Georgetown University and Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
www.tcsdaily.com /Authors.aspx?id=150   (207 words)

  
 Biographies
Jeane Kirkpatrick was the first woman appointed to serve as Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations and as a member of Ronald Reagan's Cabinet and National Security Council (1981-85).
For this and related government service, Dr. Kirkpatrick was awarded the Medal of Freedom -- the nation's highest civilian honor -- in May 1985, and received her second Department of Defense Distinguished Public Service Medal -- the highest civilian honor of the Department of Defense -- in December 1992.
Kirkpatrick also writes and speaks on a range of issues of foreign policy and security affairs and participates in the ongoing dialogue on pubic issues.
www.defenddemocracy.org /biographies/biographies_show.htm?doc_id=154775   (275 words)

  
 nancynall.com » Blog Archive » Jeane Kirkpatrick’s wrinkles.
She was then nearly 60, and looked like what she is — a public intellectual with a low-maintenance hairdo and no patience for elaborate makeup rituals, unafraid to look her age because she didn’t live in the mirror, but in her mind.
I’m trying to figure what the chances are that some impressionable soul read the story about Kirkpatrick’s speech, looked at the photo printed to enhance her wrinkles and said, “You know, if neoconservatism has no room in it for decent skin-care products, it has no room in it for me.” I’m thinking it’s pretty low.
I used to be immensely taken with Jeane Kirkpatrick - probably for much the same reasons NN highlights - her “here I stand, and here’s what I think” public profile - which prompted leftist cranks to jeer her when she spoke at universities!!!….
nancynall.com /2006/08/11/jeane-kirkpatricks-wrinkles   (2563 words)

  
 Jeane Kirkpatrick Speech to 1984 RNC (Coined "Blame America First" and "San Francisco Democrats")   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Born on November 19, 1926, in Duncan, Oklahoma, Jeane Duane Jordan took an associate's degree from Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri (1946), a bachelor's from Barnard College, and a master's and doctorate from Columbia University (1950 and 1968, respectively).
Kirkpatrick was known for her anticommunist stance and for her tolerance of authoritarian regimes.
She was accused of accepting bribes, falsifying tapes that implicated Soviet forces in the shooting down of a Korean passenger jet, and advocating the dismantling of India, all of which she vehemently denied.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/886431/posts   (5303 words)

  
 CARRY ON AMERICA » Blog Archive » Jeane Kirkpatrick, Who Put Her Country Before Her Party
Kirkpatrick argued that America’s “posture of continuous self-abasement and apology vis-a-vis the Third World is neither morally necessary nor politically appropriate” and concluded that the McGovern-Carter crowd had confused “liberal idealism … with masochism.”
Kirkpatrick, a former foreign-intelligence researcher and a confirmed Francophile who wrote her doctoral dissertation while bringing up three sons and who consulted her political-science professor husband on all matters of import.
Kirkpatrick says her legacy has been to help bring about a realignment in American politics and to radically change the atmosphere at the United Nations: “I wanted to make it clear we were there to stand up for U.S. interests and principles.”
carryonamerica.com /?p=357   (823 words)

  
 Jeane Kirkpatrick Issues Call to Courage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Kirkpatrick remarked that our forebears, as well as those who set out to explore our nation, had a virtue we must exhibit today.
When Kirkpatrick was the U.S. permanent representative to the United Nations, she gained a reputation for independent thought and often criticized the UN itself.
Jeane Kirkpatrick continues to demonstrate optimism, that trademark attribute of her former boss, Ronald Reagan.
www.newsmax.com /archives/articles/2001/11/1/82250.shtml   (392 words)

  
 Kahns Establish KSG Professorship To Honor Kirkpatricks
A widely respected scholar, Jeane Kirkpatrick is Leavey Professor of Government at Georgetown University and a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI).
She served for more than four years as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and was a member of the Cabinet during the Reagan administration.
"Jeane Kirkpatrick has been an outstanding figure in both international relations and academia and Evron Kirkpatrick was a distinguished political scientist," said Leo Kahn.
www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/1997/10.09/KahnsEstablishK.html   (1073 words)

  
 Jeff Quinton - Backcountry Conservative: Kirkpatrick on Iraq   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The Hoya reports on a speech by Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick, who is on the faculty of the government department at Georgetown.
Kirkpatrick, who supported the war effort, argued many of her points from a historical perspective.
Kirkpatrick said that anybody who has read about the regime of ex-Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein knows that he possessed those weapons.
www.jquinton.com /archives/000414.html   (443 words)

  
 AEI - Scholars & Fellows - Biography
Jeane J. Kirkpatrick was the first woman appointed to serve as permanent representative of the United States to the United Nations and as a member of Ronald Reagan’s Cabinet and National Security Council.
For this and related government service, Dr. Kirkpatrick was awarded the Medal of Freedom--the nation’s highest civilian honor--in May 1985 and received her second Department of Defense Distinguished Public Service Medal--the highest civilian honor of the Department of Defense--in December 1992.
Kirkpatrick also writes and speaks on a range of issues concerning foreign policy and security affairs and participates in the ongoing dialogue on public issues.
www.aei.org /scholars/filter.all,scholarID.32/scholar2.asp   (376 words)

  
 Commentary Magazine - Political Woman, by Jeane J. Kirkpatrick   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
...Kirkpatrick's description of them is exceptionally lucid and intelligent, well informed by the relevant politicalscience literature and combining dispassion with that degree of symlpathy necessary for understanding...
...Kirkpatrick begins by asserting that the representation of women in the political elite is desirable- not because women in general have distinctive political opinions, but because "the female sex-like youth-has become a basis of polit- ical identity...
...This question disposed of, it becomes necessary to ask why the representation of women is in fact so slight -a question which Kirkpatrick seeks to answer not simply by noting the relatively recent emergence of gender as a symbol of political identity, but by examining the more specific obstacles to a woman's political career...
www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V59I3P84-1.htm   (2014 words)

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