Global Trends in Challenging Times

The international system is undergoing rapid and troubling change.  We will examine the impact of great power conflict, de-globalization, transnational issues (like climate change) and transformative technologies on international politics and the prospects for global peace and prosperity.

LAW 5048 | 2 Units | Grading: Law Mandatory P/R/F

Instructor

  • Director of the Hoover Institution and former Secretary of State

Condoleezza Rice is the Tad and Dianne Taube Director of the Hoover Institution and a senior fellow on Public Policy. She is the Denning Professor in Global Business and the Economy at Stanford Graduate School of Business. In addition, she is a founding partner of Rice, Hadley, Gates & Manuel LLC, an international strategic consulting firm.

From January 2005 to January 2009, Rice served as the 66th Secretary of State of the United States, the second woman and first black woman to hold the post. Rice also served as President George W. Bush’s Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs (National Security Advisor) from January 2001 to January 2005, the first woman to hold the position.

Rice served as Stanford University’s provost from 1993 to 1999, during which time she was the institution’s chief budget and academic officer. As professor of political science, she has been on the Stanford faculty since 1981 and has won two of the university’s highest teaching honors.

From February 1989 through March 1991, Rice served on President George H.W. Bush’s National Security Council staff. She served as Director, then Senior Director, of Soviet and East European Affairs, as well as Special Assistant to the President for National Security. In 1986, while an international affairs fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations, Rice also served as Special Assistant to the Director of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

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