Anne-Marie Slaughter Quotes

The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy.

Out of these troubled times … a new world order may emerge.

When the big powers are in agreement, the U. N. performs. When they aren't, the U. N. is paralyzed.

The diplomatic relations upon which our present system of international comity is based are being encountered by new forces and combinations which are fast rendering them impotent and antiquated

No world power has ever tried to manage affair in this particular circumstance: The cycle of News, the cycle of crises, the complexity of grievances in increasing numbers of failed and failing states.

Under Clinton, the defiance of world order has become so extreme as to be of concern even to hawkish policy analysts.

We have to acknowledge and discuss with citizens that Germany needs to take on more responsibility. One of the questions is, 'Can we keep a functioning international order?'

American foreign policy, for all its shortcomings, has underpinned political stability around the world.

When the world lacks muscular and wise American leadership, it devolves into total chaos, which, in turn, produces unspeakable evils.

Western powers remain imprisoned by the idea that the world is a dangerous place, that it needs to be managed, and that they are called upon to do the managing.

The British can not alone act as the policemen of the world.

Ninety percent of foreign policy is reacting to whatever's happening out there.

The main challenge for American foreign policy in many places is not to influence relations between states but rather to influence events within states.

It’s not a dictatorship in the United States. But it is dictatorial to the rest of the world. Who’s going to say no?

The world many of our capabilities and alliances were created to address, no longer exists.

Foreign policy is the most constraining form of policy-making

U.S. academics and Upper East Side New Yorkers like to think of the United Nations as a place where foreign ambassadors have intellectual discussions about power and world peace.

It's one of my government's ambitions to secure a seat for Ireland on the U.N. Security Council so that we can play an even greater role in international affairs and try to build what we all believe in, which is a world of laws.

We need to really use the full force of diplomacy. And we need to be seen and understood to be on the side of diplomacy and international law.

There are nearly 200 countries and a population of over 6 billion in today's world. International affairs should be addressed by all countries through consultations rather than monopolised by a few powers.

The U.N. is much more than the case of Iraq.

We shouldn't discuss the world of tomorrow in terms of becoming a balance to the United States. The real issue is whether the United States will define herself as part of the U.N. system-or not.

The U.N. can be very frustrating and at times impotent, but it can also be a valuable forum for discussion and resolution of world problems. We should not walk away from it just because it's failed to live up to its promise.

The international community unfortunately did take sides in Libya, and we would never allow the Security Council to authorise anything similar to what happened in Libya.

All in all, the League of Nations is not inevitably bound, as some maintain from time to time, to degenerate into an impotent appendage of first one, then another of the competing great powers.