The Richard W. Riley Institute of Government, Politics and Public Leadership at Furman University

Furman Magazine Volume 45 Issue 1 Spring 2002 Article 6 4-1-2002 The Richard W. Riley Institute of Government, Politics and Public Leadership at Furman University Furman University Charlie Register Furman University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarexchange.furman.edu/furman-magazine Recommended Citation University, Furman and Register, Charlie (2002) "The Richard W. Riley Institute of Government, Politics and Public Leadership at Furman University," Furman Magazine: Vol. 45 : Iss. 1 , Article 6. Available at: https://scholarexchange.furman.edu/furman-magazine/vol45/iss1/6 This Article is made available online by Journals, part of the Furman University Scholar Exchange (FUSE). It has been accepted for inclusion in Furman Magazine by an authorized FUSE administrator. For terms of use, please refer to the FUSE Institutional Repository Guidelines. For more information, please contact . RichC::a w. Riley INSTITUTE OF GOVERNMENT, POLITICS AND PUBLIC LEADERSHIP AT FURMAN UNIVERSITY T Before the March 21 panel discussion, an attentive crowd attended a related program in Burgiss Theater; trustee Max Heller chats with Secretary Albright. he first national conference sponsored by the Richard W. Riley Institute of Government, Politics and Public Leadership, held March 20-21 , could hardly have attracted a more auspicious keynote speaker. Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was the star attraction of the two-day program on "National Security in a New Age." Albright's opening night speech, which played to a packed house in McAlister Auditorium, was followed the next evening by a panel discussion featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jim Hoagland, Georgetown U niversity professor G. John Ikenberry, former U.S. Ambassador Phil Lader and Los Angeles Times correspondent Robin Wright. Albright, who served in the Clinton Cabinet with Richard Riley, is the first woman to be Secretary of State and the highest-ranking woman in the history of the U.S. government. Before being named to the post in 1 995, she was the U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations and a member of the President's Cabinet and National Security Council. Founder of The Albright Group, LLC, a global strategy firm, she is the first Michael and Virginia Mortara Endowed Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy at the Georgetown School of Foreign Service and the first Distinguished Scholar of the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan Business School. She also chairs The National Democratic Institute for International Affairs. The panel discussion March 21 featured experts on the national and international issues and concerns facing the U n ited States today. Hoagland is associate editor and chief foreign correspondent for The He has received two Pulitzers, one in 1 970 for international reporting and the other in 1 99 1 for commentary on the events leading up to the Gulf War and the political turmoil within the Soviet Union. Washington Post. I ke n berry is the Peter F. Krogh Professor of Geopol itics and G lobal Justice at Georgetown, where he teaches in both the School of Foreign Service and the Government Department. He is the author of After Victory: Institutions, Strategic Restraint and the Rebuilding of Order After Major Wars and Reasons of State: Oil Politics and the Capacities of American Government. Lader, who moderated the discussion, was U.S. A m bassador to the United Kingdom during the C l i nton a d m i n istration. He also served as administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration and was White House Deputy Ch ief of Staff u nder Clinton. A former president of Winthrop University, he is founder of Renaissance Weekends, the family retreats for i nnovative leaders in diverse fields. He lives in Charleston, S.C., is a partner in the law firm of Nelson, Mullins, Riley & Scarborough, and serves as chair of WPP Group, a worldwide advertising and communications fi rm. Wright, chief diplomatic correspondent for The Los Angeles Times, has reported from more than 130 countries on six continents for CBS News, The Sunday Times of London, The Washington Post and The Photos b y Charlie Register 10 Christian Science Monitor. She received a National Magazine Award for her reportage from I ran in The New Yorker and an Overseas Press Club Award for her coverage of African wars. I n 200 1 , she received the Weintal Prize for "the most distinguished diplomatic reporting." The Riley I nstitute js named for the 1 954 Furman graduate who, in the words of The Greenville News, "personifies statesmanship and served his state well as governor and his country well as Secretary of Education." Riley was on hand to introduce each evening's program. On the following pages are the text of Secretary Albright's speech, highlights from the question-and-answer session that followed, and a summary of the panel discussion. T H E T 0 0 L S o By Madeleine Albright t is such an honor to participate in this conference and to be associated with the Richard W. Riley Institute of Government, Politics and Public Leader ship. It has a very bright future and I know it is a great asset for Furman, for South Carolina and for the country. One purpose of the institute is to encourage public discussion of issues that affect our security, prosperity and freedom. And today, no issue affects us more than the war on terror. When I joined the State Department, I said that I had all my partisan instincts surgically removed. I have to admit that a few months after I left office, I could feel those instincts starting to grow back. On September 12, I returned to the surgeon. Because Americans must be united. We were attacked as one country on that wretched morning half a year ago. And as one country, we must respond. The ten·mists' goal is to make America retreat from the world, abandon our allies, forget our commitments and cease to lead. But the terrorists are learning that the nation whose patriots proclaimed, "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death," and whose soldiers plunged into Hell on Omaha Beach, will not be intimidated. And a people whose firefighters and police faced death to save others will never be shut down. The Bush administration deserves our support, and that of law-abiding people everywhere, in opposing al-Qaida and other groups that willfully murder innocent people in pursuit of political goals. It deserves our support in defeating the Taliban, who ran a sort of bed and breakfast for terrorists and brutally repressed their own people. And it deserves credit for acknowledg ing that we are only at the beginning of what will be a long and perhaps permanent struggle against the forces of destruction. In the months ahead, we must employ every means available, every tool of politics and policy, to rally the world and defeat the devil 's marriage between technology and terror. The front line remains in Afghanistan, where fighting continues and the interim I FDiploma (...truncated)