“It’s nice to be feared by your enemies, but if you’re feared by your friends, it’s not particularly useful. The effect of it is very damaging to us.”
Madeleine Albright highlighted a foreign policy discussion with two UCSD international affairs experts Friday afternoon on the La Jolla campus. Susan Shirk, professor of Political Science (she also worked with Secretary of State Albright during the Clinton administration) and Jeffrey Davidow, Institute of the Americas president, shared the stage in the crowded auditorium. Secretary Albright was the top US diplomat for the four years of the second Clinton Administration. She was the first female secretary of state and the highest-ranking woman in the history of the US government. Prior to her appointment she had been the US Ambassador to the United Nations and served in high-ranking positions in foreign relations on Capitol Hill and in the Carter Administration. Madam Secretary’s Q&A with the U-T
