Charles Hill (diplomat)
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Charles Hill is the Diplomat-in-Residence and a lecturer in International Studies at Yale University
. A career foreign service officer, Mr. Hill was a senior adviser to George Shultz, Henry Kissinger
, and Ronald Reagan
, as well as Boutros Boutros-Ghali
, the sixth Secretary-General
of the United Nations
. At Yale
, he teaches, along with Paul Kennedy
and John Gaddis, the seminar "Studies in Grand Strategy", a rigorous interdisciplinary study of leadership
, statecraft and diplomacy. He also teaches students enrolled in the Directed Studies
program. Beginning in 2006, Hill offered a new course, Oratory in Statecraft. Not since Rollin G. Osterweis, who taught "The History and Practice of American Oratory", had oratory been taught at Yale.
Hill is a research fellow at Stanford University
's Hoover Institution
. Hill is also a Project for the New American Century
(PNAC) signatory. Hill served as Chief Foreign Policy Advisor to Rudy Giuliani
, a Republican candidate for the 2008 presidential election.
In 2006, a former student, Molly Worthen
, published a book about him, titled "The Man on Whom Nothing Was Lost".
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
. A career foreign service officer, Mr. Hill was a senior adviser to George Shultz, Henry Kissinger
Henry Kissinger
Heinz Alfred "Henry" Kissinger is a German-born American academic, political scientist, diplomat, and businessman. He is a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. He served as National Security Advisor and later concurrently as Secretary of State in the administrations of Presidents Richard Nixon and...
, and Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan
Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States , the 33rd Governor of California and, prior to that, a radio, film and television actor....
, as well as Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Boutros Boutros-Ghali is an Egyptian politician and diplomat who was the sixth Secretary-General of the United Nations from January 1992 to December 1996...
, the sixth Secretary-General
Secretary-General
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of the United Nations
United Nations
The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...
. At Yale
YALE
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, he teaches, along with Paul Kennedy
Paul Kennedy
Paul Michael Kennedy CBE, FBA , is a British historian at Yale University specialising in the history of international relations, economic power and grand strategy. He has published prominent books on the history of British foreign policy and Great Power struggles...
and John Gaddis, the seminar "Studies in Grand Strategy", a rigorous interdisciplinary study of leadership
Leadership studies
Leadership studies is a multidisciplinary academic field of study that focuses on leadership in organizational contexts and in human life. Leadership studies has origins in the social sciences , in humanities , as well as in professional and applied fields of study...
, statecraft and diplomacy. He also teaches students enrolled in the Directed Studies
Directed Studies at Yale University
Directed Studies at Yale University is a selective humanities study program for freshmen. It follows the Great Books of the Western tradition, and resembles Princeton University's Interdisciplinary Approaches to Western Culture, Columbia University's Core Curriculum, The University of Notre Dame's...
program. Beginning in 2006, Hill offered a new course, Oratory in Statecraft. Not since Rollin G. Osterweis, who taught "The History and Practice of American Oratory", had oratory been taught at Yale.
Hill is a research fellow at Stanford University
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
's Hoover Institution
Hoover Institution
The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace is a public policy think tank and library founded in 1919 by then future U.S. president, Herbert Hoover, an early alumnus of Stanford....
. Hill is also a Project for the New American Century
Project for the New American Century
The Project for the New American Century was an American think tank based in Washington, D.C. that lasted from 1997 to 2006. It was co-founded as a non-profit educational organization by neoconservatives William Kristol and Robert Kagan...
(PNAC) signatory. Hill served as Chief Foreign Policy Advisor to Rudy Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani
Rudolph William Louis "Rudy" Giuliani KBE is an American lawyer, businessman, and politician from New York. He served as Mayor of New York City from 1994 to 2001....
, a Republican candidate for the 2008 presidential election.
In 2006, a former student, Molly Worthen
Molly Worthen
Molly Worthen is an American writer and journalist. Her first book, a biography of American diplomat and Yale professor Charles Hill, was published in February 2006 to excellent reviews from the Boston Globe and Michiko Kakutani in the New York Times. Raised in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, she...
, published a book about him, titled "The Man on Whom Nothing Was Lost".
Books about Hill
- The Man on Whom Nothing Was Lost: The Grand Strategy of Charles Hill, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2006