Susan Rice
The Diplomat
People, composure and the difficult conversation held well.
Susan Rice is a seasoned diplomat and policy expert with extensive experience in both national security and domestic issues. This interview reveals her commitment to addressing pressing societal challenges while fostering collaboration and understanding across different perspectives.
“And he decided that we wanted to try to reduce the threat of nuclear weapons. And that led to the nuclear security summit agenda. And it led to ultimately the Iran nuclear deal. He was interested in enhancing and promoting our trading relationships.”
“Well, that's not a short answer, but my answer to that, we have a number of constants, right? You know, we've got arising China. We've got an aggressive Russia. We've got North Korea that still has nuclear weapons and missile capacity. But I say this with no satisfaction in a lot of sadness.”
“And the bottom line is I fell in love with it, and I decided to stay on and do my doctorate. I never went to law school. It was Eleanor Holmes Norton who advised me that since I loved what I was studying to stick with it, she actually said to me, how many African-American PhDs in international relations do you know?”
“We recognize that we were going to continue to be faced with these binary choices of does the United States intervene or does nobody intervene unless we help build African capacity to participate in peacekeeping and conflict resolution operations.”
The Axe Files with David Axelrod — Ep. 550 — Susan Rice
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