A history of diplomacy with Madeleine Allbright

Madeleine Allbright is chair of Allbright Stonebrifge group, which is a global strategy

firm, and she is also chair of allbright capital management and investmen advisory firm
focusing on emerging markets.

Was the 64th Secretary of State and most importantly, she was the first woman to hold
that highy office prior, she was embassador to the United Nations and also served in
President Clinton´s cabinet and on the National Security Council. Her service at senior
levels in government preceded that in the Carter administration where she was the
National Security Council´s Congressional liaision tapped for that position by one of
her professors and mentors at Columbia dr. Burzynski who was Carter´s National
Security Adviser.

She is a profesor of in the practice of diplomacy at Georgetown university school of

foreign service. She chairs both, the national democratic institute for international
affairs and the Pew Global attitude proyect, she is also the president of the Truman
Scholarchip Foundation and a member of the Advisory Committee to the US Defense
Department Secretary.

Dr. allbright did her undergraduate work at Wellesley College and her advance studies
at Johns Hopkins and then master´s and doctoral degrees from Columbia.

Her father was a Czechoslovak diplomat and was serving as press attache in Belgrade
when she was bormn so she was born in prage bc her mother wantedCzechoslovakia
was a country that came into existence in 1918. He was the person in charge of
broadcasts up from bbc during the war, after that war he was made ambassador to
Yugoslavia. When the communist came his last job was as Czechoslovak representative
to the UN to deal with India and Pakistan over Kashmir, he took that job then went to
United States and he defected. And she came back to UN several times. Finally her
father died in 1977.

In 1987 when she was working for her string of losing Democratic presidential
candidates, worked for Muchael Dukakis ans so her job was to get foreign policy
advisers

José Martín Pacheco

Her new book prage is about her childhood memories and experiences that influienced
her as Secretary of state. Book is kind of in three layers the inner layer is this story in
addition to she finally put together her rather complicated background, she was raised a
Catholic maried and Episcopalian and found out she was Jewish. The seccond layer is
about worl war II and the various aspects of what happened when the United States
came in. And the third layer is about the difficulty of making moral decisions.

At the time of Prage Spring she was vice chairman of the National Democratic Institute
and she had to provide the nuts to help in democracy not imposition. In January 90 she
went to Prage to help the students, she helped on writing an electoral law.

In 2012 she was chosen by president Obama to recibe the nation´s higest civilian honor
the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in recognition of her contributions to international
peace and democracy. One of her most relevant features is the use of pins to send
messages.

José Martín Pacheco