Jeane Kirkpatrick

Jeane Kirkpatrick      (neoconservative, terrorologist)
Born	Jeane Duane Jordan November 19, 1926 Duncan, Oklahoma, U.S.
Died	December 7, 2006 (Age 80) Bethesda, Maryland, U.S.
Alma mater	Stephens College, Barnard College, Columbia University, University of Paris
Children	• Douglas Jordan Kirkpatrick • John Evron Kirkpatrick • Stuart Kirkpatrick
Spouse	Evron Maurice Kirkpatrick
Founder of	European Foundation for Democracy
Member of	Action Council for Peace in the Balkans, American Enterprise Institute, Balkan Action Committee, Center for Security Policy/National Security Advisory Council, Committee for the Free World, Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, Committee on the Present Danger/Members, Council on Foreign Relations/Historical Members, Ethics and Public Policy Center, Foundation for Defense of Democracies, Freedom House, International Republican Institute/Board and Staff, Le Cercle, Middle East Media Research Institute, PIAB, PRODEMCA, Resistance International
Party	Democratic, (until 1980), Republican, (1980–2006)
United States Ambassador to the United Nations In office February 4, 1981 - April 1, 1985

Jeane Kirkpatrick was a professor at Georgetown University for many years, and during the Reagan administration was US ambassador to the UN. She died on 8 Dec 2006.

Activities

Kirkpatrick was an early neocon and ultra-rightwinger. She gained notoriety during the 1970s for attacking Carter's "human rights" agenda in foreign policy .

• Greg Grandin, Mid-Wife of the Neocons, Counterpunch, 9 December 2006
• Jeane Kirkpatrick and the Great Democratic Defection, by Richard V. Allen, New York Times, 16 December 2006.

She was an advisor of the Endowment for Middle East Truth.

Promoting the "War On Terror"

She attended the 1984 Washington Conference on International Terrorism.

Deep political Connections

She attended Le Cercle. She was a member of the ultra conservative National Security Advisory Council (NSAC) of the Center for Security Policy, together with Cercle attendees Ed Feulner and Donald Jameson.

 

Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Bilderberg/1981	15 May 1981	17 May 1981	Switzerland Palace Hotel Bürgenstock	The 29th Bilderberg
Washington Conference on International Terrorism	24 June 1984	27 June 1984	US Washington DC	A key conference in establishing the "War On Terror", 5 years after the seminal Jerusalem Conference on International Terrorism

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