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Jeane Jordan Kirkpatrick (born November 19 , 1926 ) is an American Conservative political scientist and member of the Neoconservative movement. After serving as Ronald Reagan 's foreign policy adviser in his 1980 campaign, she was nominated as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations . An ardent Anticommunist , she is famous for her " Kirkpatrick Doctrine ," which advocates U.S. support of anticommunist governments around the world, including authoritarian dictatorships. Along with Empower America co-directors William Bennett and Jack Kemp , she called on the Congress to issue a formal declaration of war against the "entire fundamentalist Islamic terrorist network" the day after the September 11th Attacks on the World Trade Center . BIOGRAPHY Born Jeane Duane Jordan in Duncan, Oklahoma , she graduated from Barnard College in 1948 after transferring from Stephens College , and received a doctorate in political science from Columbia University in 1968 . During her early academic career she was a Marxist , joining the Youth section of the American Socialist Party . At Columbia her principal adviser was Franz Neumann , a revisionist Marxist. In 1967 , she joined the faculty of Georgetown University , and became a full professor of political science in 1968 . She became active in politics as a Democrat in the 1970s, and was active in the later campaigns of former Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Hubert Humphrey . Kirkpatrick published a number of articles in political science journals reflecting her disillusionment with the Democratic party, and was especially critical of the foreign policy of Democratic President Jimmy Carter . She eventually left the Democrats , and joined the Republicans , but not until 1985 . In 1980, though still nominally a Democrat, she became the foreign policy adviser for the Republican presidential candidate, Ronald Reagan , during his campaign. After winning the election, Reagan nominated Kirkpatrick as United States Ambassador To The United Nations , a position she held for four years. She was one of the strongest open supporters of whose military regime clamped down on leftists (see '' Dirty War ''). Her support was basically muted when the administration ultimately decided to declare support for the British (see '' U.S. Shuttle Diplomacy During The Falklands War ''). She later became a member of Reagan's national security team, where she was accused of accepting bribes, falsifying tapes that implicated Soviet forces in the shooting down of a South Korean passenger jet ( Flight 007 ) on September 1 , 1983 , and advocating the dismantling of India, all of which she denied. There was an apparent lack of any reasonable evidence for the accusations. Her popularity among Americans was high due to her ardent support for basic rights and unwavering support of Democratic-Republican principles at the UN. At the 1984 Republican National Convention , Kirkpatrick delivered the memorable "Blame America First" speech, in which she praised the foreign policy of the Reagan administration and excoriated the leadership of the San Francisco Democrats for the party's shift away from the policies of former Democratic presidents such as Harry S. Truman and John F. Kennedy to a multilateral stance that de-emphasized assertive confrontation with foreign rivals, especially the '''Evil Empire'''. In 1985 Kirkpatrick became a Republican and returned to teaching at the Jesuit Georgetown University . She became a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute , a Washington D.C Think Tank and a contributor to the American Freedom Journal . In 1993 she co-founded Empower America , a public-policy organization. VIEWS Comparing authoritarian and totalitarian regimes, she said recently: :Authoritarian regimes really typically don’t have complete command economies. Authoritarian Regime s typically have some have kind of traditional economy with some Private Ownership . The Nazi regime left ownership in private hands, but the state assumed control of the economy. Control was separated from ownership but it was really a Command Economy because it was controlled by the state. A command economy is an attribute of a Totalitarian State {Link without Title} Explaining her disillusionment with international organizations, especially the United Nations , she stated:
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