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January 28, 2000
Ethics and Public Policy Center President Elliott Abrams to Speak on Religion and Foreign Policy
Princeton, NJ -- Elliott Abrams, president of the Washington, DC-based Ethics and Public Policy Center and a former assistant secretary of state during the Reagan administration, will speak on "Church, State, and the National Security Council: Religion and the Making of American Foreign Policy" at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs on Tuesday, February 8, at 4:30 p.m. in Robertson Hall, Dodds Auditorium.
Abrams, who served in the State Department during all eight years of the Reagan administration, was assistant secretary of state first for international affairs, then for human rights and humanitarian affairs, and finally for Inter-American affairs. In 1988, he received the Secretary of State's Distinguished Service Award from Secretary George P. Shultz for his work in the department.
Abrams had previously spent four years working for the United States Senate, first as assistant counsel to the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations in 1975, then as special counsel to Senator Henry M. Jackson from 1975-76; and finally as special counsel and later chief of staff to Senator Daniel P. Moynihan from 1977 to 1979.
After leaving the state department, he was a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute from 1990 until 1996, when he became president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, which was established in 1976 to "clarify and reinforce the bond between the Judeo-Christian moral tradition and the public debate over domestic and foreign policy issues." He is a member of the council on Foreign Relations and of the National Advisory Council of the American Jewish Committee. His articles and book reviews have appeared in Commentary, The Weekly Standard, The National Interest, The Public Interest, and National Review, for which he is a contributing editor. He is the author of three books, Undue Process, Security and Sacrifice, and Faith or Fear: How Jews Can Survive in a Christian America. He has appeared on Meet the Press, Face the Nation, Nightline, and other major television news programs.
Abrams holds a B.A. degree from Harvard, a master's degree in international relations from the London School of Economics, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.
The lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School and the University's Center for the Study of Religion.