Democracy in a Dangerous World

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Thursday, June 3rd, 2010

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About Professor Charles Hill 

Charles Hill, International Security Studies DistinguishedFellow and Brady-Johnson Distinguished Fellow in Grand Strategy, co-teaches ISS's "Studies in Grand Strategy" graduate seminar. He is also a Lecturer in International Studies and in Directed Studies, an intensive set ofcourses for freshmen on the Great Books of the Western tradition. In 2005-06, he was the Laura Blanche Jackson Lecturer in International Affairs at BaylorUniversity, and is a Fellow of the Hoover Institution. From 1984-1989, heserved as Executive Assistant to Secretary of State George P. Shultz in the USForeign Service. He was Assistant Secretary-General of the UN and SpecialConsultant on Policy to UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali from1992-1996.

Among Professor Hill's awards are the Superior Honor Awardfrom the Department of State in 1973 and 1981; the Distinguished Honor Award in1978; the Presidential Meritorious Service Award in 1986; the PresidentialDistinguished Service Award in 1987 and 1989; and the Secretary of State'sMedal in 1989. He was granted an honorary doctor of laws degree by RowanUniversity. He received an A.B. degree from Brown University in 1957, a J.D.degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1960, and an M.A. degree inAmerican studies from the University of Pennsylvania in 1961.

A book describing Professor Hill’s roles as a diplomat and aYale College teacher, The Man on Whom Nothing Was Lost, by MollyWorthen '03, GRD '11, was published by Houghton Mifflin in 2006.

 Professor Hill´s presentation this year is titled "Democracy in a Dangerous World".