Jeane J. Kirkpatrick
United States Ambassador to the United Nations
Jefferson Memorial Lectures
— 4:10 PMUniversity of California, Berkeley — UC Berkeley Campus
About Jeane J. Kirkpatrick
Jeane Kirkpatrick was the first woman to hold the position of U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and as a member of Ronald Reagan’s Cabinet and National Security Council. She is famous for her “Kirkpatrick Doctrine,” which advocated U.S. support of anticommunist governments around the world, including authoritarian dictatorships, if they went along with Washington’s aims believing they could be led into democracy by example. Ambassador Kirkpatrick bases her lecture on human rights in correlation to foreign policies and international relationships.