Anne-Marie Slaughter (born September 27, 1958) is an American international lawyer, foreign policy analyst, political scientist, and public commentator.

[citation needed] She revived a national debate over gender equality in the twenty-first century in an article in The Atlantic titled "Why Women Still Can't Have it All.

[17] Mentored by Richard H. Ullman,[18] she won the Daniel M. Sachs Memorial Scholarship, which provides for two years of study at Worcester College, Oxford.

At Princeton University, she held joint appointments with the Politics Department and the Woodrow Wilson School, where she teaches and advises PhD, Masters and undergraduate students.

[25] [non-primary source needed] Others noted that, with Bush's Republican Party controlling the presidency and both houses of Congress, many of the most influential people in the federal government, and in the international relations apparatus in particular, were necessarily administration supporters.

On 23 January 2009, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced the appointment of Slaughter as the new director of policy planning under the Obama administration.

At the State Department, Slaughter was chief architect of the Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review whose first iteration was released in December 2010.

[27][28] The QDDR provided a blueprint for elevating development as a pillar of American foreign policy and leading through civilian power.

Commenting upon the skepticism that often greets such reports, and reiterating Secretary Clinton's strong desire that the QDDR become an essential part of the State Department policy process, Slaughter said: "I'm pretty sure you're thinking, 'I've heard this before,' [a big plan to change the way a government agency works] But this is different.

"[28] Slaughter received the Secretary's Distinguished Service Award for exceptional leadership and professional competence, the highest honor conferred by the State Department.

[29] She has written that she came "home not only because of Princeton's rules (after two years of leave, you lose your tenure), but also because of my desire to be with my family and my conclusion that juggling high-level government work with the needs of two teenage boys was not possible.

"[30] A 2015 article in Marie Claire magazine quoted Hillary Clinton as saying that "other women don't break a sweat" and choose to stay working in stressful government jobs.

[34] In the private sector, she started her law career at the corporate firm Simpson Thacher and is currently on the corporate board of Abt Global (formerly Abt Associates), a for-profit government contractor involved in research, evaluation and implementing programs in the fields of health, social and environmental policy, and international development.

Their "Better Life Lab" key projects and initiatives include Family Policy and Caregiving, Redesigning Work and Gender Equality, a topic Slaughter has been outspoken about in several of her writings.

[37] In July 2005, Slaughter wrote in the American Journal of International Law about the responsibility to protect (R2P) that:[38] Membership in the United Nations is no longer a validation of sovereign status and a shield against unwanted meddling in a state's domestic jurisdiction...

May noted that President Obama had cited the R2P norm as his primary justification for using military force with Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi, who had threatened to attack the opposition stronghold of Benghazi.

[44] On 26 February 2015, Forbes magazine published a piece by Doug Bandow which called for Washington policymakers to be held accountable for another war gone bad.

Slaughter was singled out for criticism, for her statement that "it clearly can be in the U.S. and the West's strategic interest to help social revolutions fighting for the values we espouse and proclaim[,]" in an article Bandow characterized as "celebratory" concerning the outcome of NATO intervention in Libya.

[5] In 2017, The New York Times[55] alleged that Slaughter had closed the Open Markets research group and dismissed its director Barry Lynn because he had criticized Google, a major donor of New America, and called for it to be broken up.

[56] Slaughter denied that Open Markets was closed because of pressure from Google and said Lynn was dismissed because he had "repeatedly violated the standards of honesty and good faith with his colleagues.

"[57] New America co-chair Jonathan Soros wrote in a letter that Google had neither "attempted to interfere" nor "threaten[ed] funding" over Open Markets research critical of monopolies.