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Definition: Rice, Condoleezza from Philip's Encyclopedia

(1954-) US Secretary of State (2005- ). Before joining the Bush administration Rice had a distinguished academic career, rising to become Professor of Political Science at Stamford University (1993). She was National Security Advisor to the first Bush government (2001-5) and a key proponent of the 2003 US invasion of Iraq. In 2005 she became US Secretary of State, the first African-American woman to do so.


Rice, Condoleezza

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
US politician, national security advisor 2001–04 and secretary of state 2005–09. As secretary of state, she launched a diplomatic initiative aimed at finding regional solutions to problems such as terrorism, and criticized Iran for its sponsorship of terrorism and its aspirations to develop nuclear weapons. As national security advisor she helped develop a new US defence doctrine, in the wake of the September 11 2001 terrorist attacks on the USA, which supported the use of pre-emptive strikes against an enemy. This was put into effect with the US invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq in 2001 and 2003. She also played a key role in the negotiation of a Strategic Offensive Reduction Treaty (SORT) with Russia in 2002, to reduce both countries' strategic nuclear arsenals by two-thirds by 2012. A foreign-policy conservative, Rice is libertarian and a comparative moderate on social issues. Drawing on her academic specialisms, she was an adviser on Soviet and East European affairs to President…
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From The Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography
African-American academic and the first woman and first African-American to be National Security Adviser to an American president (George Bush Jr.). She became Secretary of State under the second Bush administration in late 2004. The most academic member of Bush’s team she has a background in…
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From The Great American History Fact-Finder
National security adviser to President George W. Bush (2001– ). Born in Birmingham, Alabama, Rice entered the University of Denver at age fifteen, graduating cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. She earned a master's degree at the University of Notre Dame and a doctorate from the University of Denver's…
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From The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Military and Diplomatic History
sixty-sixth secretary of state of the United States, from 2005 to 2009, and twentieth national security adviser, from 2001 to 2005. Born on 14 November 1954 in Birmingham, Alabama, Condoleezza Rice received her Ph.D. from the University of Denver and shortly thereafter was appointed as an assistant…
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From Dictionary of American Government and Politics
Condoleezza Rice was the National Security Advisor and then – in George W. Bush's second administration – Secretary of State, the first African American woman to hold both offices. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, Condoleezza Rice gained a degree in political science and eventually a doctorate in…
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US political scientist and diplomat. Having served as National Security Advisor (2001-5) during President George W. Bush’s first term, she became Secretary of State (2005-9) in his second administration. For sixty years, my country, the United States, pursued stability at the expense of democracy in…
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From From Suffrage to the Senate: America's Political Women
Rice, Condoleezza (b. 1954)
The 66th U.S. Secretary of State and the first African American woman to hold the office, Condoleezza Rice served from 2005 to 2009. When President George W. Bush appointed her, the United States was at war in Afghanistan and Iraq. Rice has been credited with easing the friction between the United…
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U.S. Secretary of State, University Professor Condoleezza Rice, a native of Birmingham, Alabama, was born November 14, 1954. She earned a B.A. in political science in 1974 from the University of Denver and graduated Phi Beta Kappa and cum laude. Rice later earned her master's degree from the…
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From The American Women's Almanac: 500 Years of Making History
Condoleezza Rice (1954–)
Condoleezza Rice is the first African American woman to serve as the U.S. national security adviser as well as the first black woman to serve as U.S. secretary of state (the second female secretary of state and second African American after Colin Powell), becoming the highest ranking African…
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From Trailblazing Women!: Amazing Americans Who Made History
Condoleezza Rice (1954–)
Educator, National Security Adviser, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is the first African American woman to serve as the U.S. national security adviser as well as the first black woman to serve as U.S. secretary of state (the second female secretary of state and second African American…
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From The American Women's Almanac: 500 Years of Making History Full text Article Politics, Government, and the Law
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