biography
pronunciation:
[kondoleetsa]
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| female
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| lived:
| (1955– )
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| biography:
| US academic and Republican politician, born in Birmingham, Alabama, USA. She studied political science at the University of Denver, graduating at the age of 19, then continued in political science at Notre Dame (MA) and again at Denver (PhD). She started political life as a Democrat, but changed parties in 1982 as a result of Jimmy Carter's Afghanistan policy. She joined Stanford University in 1981, becoming a professor in the political science department and a Hoover Institution fellow (1985–6, 1991–3), and was the first woman and first African-American to become a Stanford provost (1993–9). After a period in Washington in the mid-1980s as a fellow attached to the Joint Chiefs-of-Staff, she became director of Soviet and East European affairs with the National Security Council (1989), and special assistant to George Bush. She is co-author (with Philip Zelikow) of Germany Unified and Europe Transformed (1995). She was appointed national security adviser by George W Bush in 2001. |
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