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Date: April 9, 1998
Anthony Lake, Former National Security Adviser, To Speak on Security Threats in the Post-Cold War Era
Princeton, N.J. -- Anthony Lake, national security adviser to the Clinton administration from 1993 to 1996 and a Woodrow Wilson School alumnus, will give the annual George W. Ball Lecture entitled "Post-Cold War Security Threats" at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs on Tuesday, April 14, at 4:30 p.m., in Robertson Hall, Dodds Auditorium.
Lake, currently the Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy at Georgetown University, served as national security adviser to the Clinton administration from 1993 to 1996. During Lake’s tenure, President Clinton called him "the point man of our foreign policy team," and said that "in moments of crisis, in times of triumph, he has always been at my side." In 1997, Princeton honored Lake with the Madison Medal, awarded annually to a graduate school alumnus who has a distinguished record in professional or public service.
At the Wilson School, Lake received his masters in 1969 and his doctorate in 1974. He had already compiled a remarkable record at the State Department, having served as vice consul in Saigon and Hue from 1963 to 1965 and as an aide to Henry Kissinger in 1969 and 1970. He served as foreign policy coordinator for the Muskie Election Committee and as director of the Special Rhodesia Project for the Council on Foreign Relations. Later, again working for the State Department, Lake headed the transition team prior to President Carter’s inauguration and was director of policy planning during his administration.
Lake then went on to pursue a distinguished academic career, teaching international relations at Amherst and Mount Holyoke Colleges from 1981 to 1992. He is the author of two books, Somoza Falling (1989) and The "Tar Baby" Option: American Policy toward Southern Rhodesia (1976), and co-author of Our Own Worst Enemy: The Unmaking of American Foreign Policy (1984). He has also written articles and book reviews for Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, The New York Times, and The New Republic, among other journals and newspapers.
Lake’s lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and its George W. Ball lecture series, which honors the former undersecretary of state, who served as chair of the School’s advisory council for many years.