His latest book, How to Do Things With International Law (Princeton 2017), examines the ideology of the rule of law in international affairs. His research and teaching focus on international law and politics in theory and in practice and on political science research methods. Ian Hurd is Director of WCCIAS and Professor of Political Science at Northwestern. Before joining the State Department, he earned a PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures from Columbia University. State Department, including serving as the Department spokesman under Secretary Hillary Clinton and as Director of the Office of Russian Affairs. Prior to his ambassadorships, Kelly held a variety of high-level roles at the U.S. Ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) from 2010 to 2013. He is a retired senior foreign service officer who last served as the U.S. She studied at the Pushkin Institute and received an MS from the National Defense University.Īmbassador Ian Kelly (ret) is Ambassador in Residence with the International Studies Program at Northwestern (2018-2024). Yovanovitch is a graduate of Princeton University where she earned a BA in History and Russian Studies. Earlier she served as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, where she coordinated policy on European and global security issues. Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy, National Defense University. Department of State and as the Deputy Commandant and International Advisor at the Dwight D.

She also served as the Dean of the School of Language Studies at the Foreign Service Institute, U.S.

She is also a Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a non-Resident Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, Georgetown University. The Great Room | 600 Haven St, Evanston, IL 60208Īmbassador Marie Yovanovitch (ret) is the author of a New York Times best-selling memoir, Lessons from the Edge. in Residence) in conversation on her best-selling memoir as well as Ambassadors Marie Yovanovitch and Ian Kelly (WCCIAS Amb.

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