Interview with Dr. Condoleezza Rice July 21, 2020 // 18 minute read Condoleezza Rice served as U.S. secretary of state from 2005-2009 and as national security advisor … Populism is not actually anti-democratic. It becomes about whether my grievance or my narrative is superior to yours.The amount that we've rolled up in national debt is ultimately going to come back to haunt us. You know what happens when you don't encounter people who think differently? That adds to that notion of elites who are distant. So identity is a complex thing, particularly in a country like ours.But we are having an uncomfortable conversation about how do we define “American”? The international organizations seem to have almost been sidelined during this period of time. People ought to be smart enough to see that these are really concocted from foreign powers. The weaponization of identity is really the issue. A Hoover Virtual Policy Briefing with Condoleezza Rice: COVID-19 and National Security Tuesday, April 14, 2020 at 11AM PT/ 2PM ET.
You’ve gotten a response where the sovereign state is king in response to the pandemic. My identity means that you have to step back because I have suffered more. Unfortunately, a lot of the common experiences that we used to have, whether it was military service or churchgoing, or the like, we don't have those to the same degree anymore. But I also hope we realize you can't spend forever.There's some 40, 50 percent of us for whom this hasn't been at all disruptive to what we do. Telling the unemployed coal miner in West Virginia that globalization was good for you because you can buy cheap goods at Walmart wasn't selling.If you look at something like AIDS relief, when under President Bush and continuing under President Obama, and now under President Trump, we took on this pandemic of AIDS that was ravaging an entire continent. You think they're either stupid or they're venal. They don't have your interest at heart. If you're constantly in the company of people who say “amen” to everything, find other company. We are going to have to respond to that.The Russians, the Chinese, and others have tried to take disaffected populations and make them even more disaffected. Jeff Fortenberry, R-Neb, explains what he thinks Americans want from other nations, which is to be treated fairly and recognized for their international support. No better example of the divide between these two approaches comes from two former Republican secretaries of state — Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice. I grew up in segregated Birmingham, Alabama. Support our … You couldn't have a response like you see in Hungary.The other big contributor, which I believe in, is globalization. Condoleezza "Condi" Rice (/ ˌ k ɒ n d ə ˈ l iː z ə /; born November 14, 1954) is an American diplomat, political scientist, civil servant, and professor who served as the 66th United States Secretary of State from 2005 to 2009 and as the 20th United States National Security Advisor from 2001 to 2005. The COVID-19 crisis, if anything, has tended to reinforce, maybe even exacerbate, some of the trends toward isolationism. That common narrative was based on a belief that you could come from humble circumstances and you could do great things. To be American is not tied to nationality, religion, or ethnicity. She served as a member of the Dutch Parliament from 2003 to 2006.Your gift helps advance ideas that promote a free society.The opinions expressed on this website are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Hoover Institution or Stanford University.© 2020 by the Board of Trustees of Leland Stanford Junior University. We are this incredible hodgepodge. She is a professor at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business and a senior fellow on … I am very, very proud of my African American background. I am very, very proud of my African American background. I worry about the effect on countries in Africa, for instance, or in Latin America, that have only recently begun to have democratic governments.They would never have dreamed what a gift social media would be. We come from, and our ancestors came from, every corner of the world. We've never defined our self-interest, or at least not in the last 70 years, as just being about us.