6 Quotes & Sayings By Annemarie Slaughter

Anne-Marie Slaughter is an Associate Professor at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. She served as Director of Policy Planning in the U.S. Department of State from 2009-2011, where she was the primary adviser to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on foreign policy and national security issues. In that position, she was a central figure in a series of diplomatic efforts to resolve the conflict in Libya and to facilitate a political transition in Syria Read more

She is the author of "A New World Order" (Princeton University Press, 2004), which received the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction, and "Unfinished Business: Women, Men and the Two-Year Test (Princeton University Press, 2010), which was awarded the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. She is also co-author (with Linda Bilmes) of "The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict" (Public Affairs, 2008).

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Corporate anthropologist Karen Stephenson argues that though trust is the natural glue of human connection since prehistoric times, it is mostly absent in modern hierarchies–especially in government, where vertical silos compete with and undermine one another, often within the same bureaucracy. AnneMarie Slaughter
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Humans pursuing deep, complete connections respond to quite different incentives from those that influence self-interested utility maximizers. Rewards, monitoring, and punishments are less likely to be effective than engagement, communication, norms, socialization, identity, and common purpose. They share not out of a calculation of reciprocity but from a psychological pleasure in sharing. Those seeking connections make decisions from their hearts as well as their heads, influenced by emotion, fairness, empathy, and intuition. Their behavior, thoughts, feelings, and even personal attributes are highly socially contingent. The range of humanity includes individuals who display every possible combination of selfishness and sociability. AnneMarie Slaughter
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Influence flows across networks up to three degrees away. What your friends’ friends eat or do or think will influence what you eat or do or think–but further connections will not. AnneMarie Slaughter
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Many network theorists note that human beings differ dramatically from the rational profit maximizer of social science theory. Neuroscientists exploring different regions if the brain, sociologists mapping an increasingly networked society, and entrepreneurial enthusiasts of the sharing economy challenge the highly individualist conception of the individual that many economists embrace. Instead of homo economicus, let s consider homo sociologicus, a person driven as much by the desire to belong and connect as by her individual goals. AnneMarie Slaughter
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Patriotism demands the ability to feel shame as much as to feel pride. AnneMarie Slaughter