Nancy E. McGlen - Women in Foreign Policy: The Insiders

Volume 5

NANCY E. MCGLEN AND MEREDITH REID SARKEES

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NANCY E. McGLEN AND
MEREDITH REID SARKEES

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McGlen, Nancy E., 1947-

Women in foreign policy: the insiders / Nancy E. McGlen and Meredith Reid Sarkees.

p. cm.

Includes interviews with ten women active in foreign policy.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0415905117 (HB) ISBN 0415905125 (PB)

1. Women diplomatsUnited States. 2. United StatesDiplomatic and consular service. 3. Women diplomatsUnited States Interviews. I. Sarkees, Meredith Reid, 1950-. II. Title.

JX1706.Z7M34 1993

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To

Joseph Gadawski
and
John Sarkees

whose support makes all things possible

Most worthwhile things in life can be accomplished only with the assistance of many others, and we would like to take this opportunity to express our gratitude to those who have helped us in this project. We would especially like to thank the women and men in the foreign policy arena who so generously gave us their opinions and insights during our interviews. Their willingness to sacrifice time from their already demanding schedules and subject themselves to an extensive array of questions reflects a dedication to their careers and an appreciation of the pursuit of knowledge, which is the basis of studies like ours.

We would also like to thank those who assisted us in our search for information, including, but not limited to: Maryann Jacob, Air Force; Sharon Bobb, Senior Executive Service; Carmen Arrowood and Mike Dug-gin, Navy; Maria Melchiorre, State Department; Gwynn Johnson and Bob Zenda, Army; Charles Vaughan, Andrew Klugh, and Ken Darlymple, Office of Personnel Management; Fran Burwell, Women in International Security; and Monica Wagner, esq., Terris, Edgecombe, Hecker, & Wayne. We are particularly grateful to Georgiana Prince and Alison Palmer, who shared much of their accumulated information and insight with us.

We also owe a special debt to the Center for the American Woman and Politics, at the Eagleton Institute, Rutgers University, which provided the inspiration to begin, and the grant which enabled us to undertake, this project. Thanks also go to Niagara University for its support of our research with several Academic Year Research grants.

Intellectually, the ideas for this book benefited from the suggestions and criticisms of Georgia Duerst-Lahti, Susan Carroll, Debra Dodson, and Ruth Mandel who helped us formulate the early stages of our research and/or have reviewed versions of some of the following chapters when they were presented as papers. Thanks also have to go to our editor, Cecelia A. Cancellaro who encouraged us to develop our research into a book.

The actual writing of this book was made possible only with the transcribing and word-processing assistance of Lois Reid, Emily Reid, Barbara Hiller, Richard DiBella, Anita Phelps, and the student aides in Timon Hall. We also benefited from the computer assistance of Regina Kernin.

As in all such endeavors, the credit for what follows can be shared with those we have acknowledged; any omissions are ours.

International Politics, like all politics is a struggle for power. It is sufficient to state that the struggle for power is universal in time and space and is an undeniable fact of experience.

In a world where a number of sovereign states compete with and oppose each other for power, the foreign policies of all nations must necessarily refer to their survival as their minimum requirement.

As Morgenthau has indicated, international politics (or foreign affairs) is about conflicting nation-states locked in a power struggle where the minimum requirement of a nation-states foreign policy is the survival of the nation-state itself. In contrast to earlier predictions, the recent age of international relations has witnessed a resurgence of nationalism, and an ever-increasing concern with the creation of, and/or continued existence of, nation-states. Moreover, in an increasingly interdependent world, the conduct of foreign affairs has become even more critical to the success and continued existence of the nation-state. Correspondingly, the persons responsible for the development and implementation of a countrys foreign policy have seen their power magnified. Their decisions not only influence the fate of their own nation-state, but also have increasingly significant repercussions throughout the world. As a result, the ranks of the foreign policy elite have come to be seen as more dominant, prestigious, and exclusive than perhaps ever before. Consequently, the issue of whether and to what degree women have a role in the process of foreign policy formulation has also become more crucial.