American Enterprise Institute (AEI)
Jeane J. Kirkpatrick
Jeane J. Kirkpatrick is a Senior Fellow with the Washington, D.C.-based conservative think tank the American Enterprise Institute and a professor of political science at Georgetown University. She served as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations from 1981 to 1985. The following is excerpted from testimony by Ambassador Kirkpatrick on April 8, 2004, before the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee.Those of us concerned with foreign affairs in the Reagan Administration became deeply involved in the Law of the Sea [LOS] treaty which had been under discussion since 1958 and had nearly been completed by the time Ronald Reagan was…
