Anthony Lake 373221 222433563 2008-06-29T09:24:55Z John Z 239099 wikify, clarify [[Image:Lake Clinton Panetta 1994.jpg|500px|thumb|right|Lake (left) meets with [[Bill Clinton]] and [[Leon Panetta]] at the White House in 1994.]] '''Anthony Lake''' (born [[April 2]], [[1939]]) is an [[United States|American]] [[Diplomacy|diplomat]], [[Politics of the United States|political figure]], and [[Academia|academic]]. He has been a foreign policy advisor to many [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] [[President of the United States|U.S. presidents]] and presidential candidates, and served as [[National Security Advisor (United States)|National Security Advisor]] under U.S. President [[Bill Clinton]] from 1993 to 1997. Lake is credited with developing the policy that led to the resolution of the [[Bosnian War]]. He is currently a faculty member at the [[Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service]] at [[Georgetown University]], holding the [[Professor#Named chair|chair]] of Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy. Lake was born in [[New York City]]. He attended [[Middlesex School]] and [[Harvard College]], graduating with a [[Bachelor of Arts]] [[Academic degree|degree]] in 1961. Lake studied [[international economics]] at [[Trinity College, Cambridge]] and later received a [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D]] from the [[Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs]] at [[Princeton University]] in 1974. Lake joined the [[United States Department of State|State Department]] in 1962, serving until 1970 as a [[Foreign Service Officer]]. Lake was an assistant to [[Ambassador]] [[Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.]] during the [[Vietnam War]]. His State Department career included assignments as [[Consul (representative)|consul]] in [[Saigon]], [[South Vietnam]] (1963), vice consul in [[Huế]] (1964-1965) and special assistant to the assistant to the president for [[national security]] affairs (1969-1970) in the [[Nixon administration]]. In 1969, he accompanied National Security Advisor [[Henry Kissinger]] on his first secret meeting with [[North Vietnam]]ese negotiators in [[Paris Peace Accords|Paris]]. In 1970, he had a falling-out with Kissinger over the Nixon administration's [[Cambodian Campaign]] and later wrote a book critical of Kissinger's approach to [[Africa]]. Lake worked for Democratic [[United States Senate|U.S. Senator]] [[Edmund Muskie]] of [[Maine]] in his [[United States presidential election, 1972|1972 presidential campaign]]. After Muskie lost the nomination to [[George McGovern]], Lake served briefly at the Carnegie Endowment and International Voluntary Services before returning to serve as [[Director of Policy Planning]] under [[Jimmy Carter]] (1977-1981). After Carter lost the [[United States presidential election, 1980|1980 election]] to [[Ronald Reagan]], Lake became a [[professor]], holding the [[Five Colleges (Massachusetts)|Five College]] Professor of [[International relations|International Relations]] chair in [[Massachusetts]] (1981-1992). Lake taught at [[Amherst College]]. In 1984, he moved to [[Mount Holyoke College]], where he has taught courses on the Vietnam War, [[Third World]] [[revolution]]s, and [[Foreign relations of the United States|American foreign policy]]. During the [[United States presidential election, 1992|1992 presidential campaign]], he was one of Clinton's chief foreign policy advisers. Following Clinton's [[United States presidential election, 1996|1996 reelection]], Lake was nominated to become the [[Director of the Central Intelligence Agency]], but his nomination was withdrawn due to [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] opposition. It has also been reported that the failure of his nomination was related to his decision to withdraw support at the last minute for an Iraqi coup that might have removed Saddam without U.S. intervention. [[John Ehrman]] speculates that Lake's nomination "failed, in part, because Lake stated in a television interview that he was not sure if [[Alger Hiss| [Alger] Hiss]] was guilty."<ref name="urlThe Mystery of ALES — Central Intelligence Agency">{{cite web |url=https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/vol51no4/the-mystery-of-ales.html |title=The Mystery of "ALES" — Central Intelligence Agency |format= |work= |accessdate=2008-06-29}}</ref> Lake later served as National Security Advisor (1993-1997) and then White House Special Envoy (1998-2000). As special envoy Lake mediated the drafting of the [[Algiers Agreement (2000)|Algiers Agreement]], ending the [[Eritrean-Ethiopian War]]. Lake co-founded [[Intellibridge|Intellibridge Corporation]] in 2000 with [[David Rothkopf]]. In 2005 the assets of Intellibridge were acquired by the [[Eurasia Group]]. Lake is currently a foreign policy adviser for [[Barack Obama|Barack Obama's]] [[Barack Obama presidential campaign, 2008|2008 presidential campaign]]. <ref name="urlCNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time - Obama outlines foreign policy vision">{{cite web |url=http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2007/11/27/obama-outlines-foreign-policy-vision/ |title=CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time - Obama outlines foreign policy vision |format= |work= |accessdate=2008-06-29}}</ref> Lake was an advisory board member for the [[Partnership for a Secure America]], a not-for-profit organization dedicated to recreating the bipartisan center in American national security and foreign policy. He has also served as chair on the boards of the [[United States Fund for UNICEF]] and the [[Marshall Legacy Institute]]. He also is serving a term from 2005-2010 on the [[Mount Holyoke College]] [[Trustee|Board of Trustees]]. Anthony Lake also converted to Judaism in 2005.<ref>[http://stlouis.ujcfedweb.org/page.html?ArticleID=164646 N.H. Shul's Forum Draws Some Big Names<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> <ref>[http://www.momentmag.com/Exclusive/2008/2008-05/200805-Lake.html The Conversions of Anthony Lake] Moment Magazine article discussing Lake's conversion</ref> ==Notes== {{Reflist}} ==Bibliography == *''More Than [[Humanitarianism]]: A Strategic U.S. Approach Toward Africa'' (2006, co-author with [[Christine Todd Whitman]]) *''6 Nightmares: The Real Threats to American Security'' (2001) *''After the Wars: Reconstruction in [[Afghanistan]], [[Central America]], [[Indochina]], the [[Horn of Africa]], and [[Southern Africa]]'' (1990, editor) *''[[Somoza]] Falling: A Case Study of Washington at Work'' (1989) *''Third World Radical Regimes: U.S. Policy Under Carter and Reagan'' (1985) *''Our Own Worst Enemy: The Unmaking of American Foreign Policy'' (1984, co-author) *''The "[[Tar baby|Tar Baby]]" Option: American Policy Toward [[Southern Rhodesia]]'' (1976). *''Legacy of Vietnam: The War, American Society, and the Future of U.S. Foreign Policy'' (1976, contributing editor) {{seealso|Timeline of Cox Report controversy}} == External links == * [http://www.momentmag.com/Exclusive/2008/2008-05/200805-Lake.html An article all about Lake's conversion to Judaism, as well as how he became Bill Clinton's National Security Advisor] * [http://www.mtholyoke.edu/offices/president/bios.shtml#lake Mount Holyoke biography] * [http://explore.georgetown.edu/faculty/index.cfm?Action=View&NetID=lakea Lake's Georgetown Homepage] * [http://www.sourcewatch.org/wiki.phtml?title=Anthony_Lake Source Watch entry for Anthony Lake] * [http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB195/index.htm National Security Archive on Nixon's consideration of use of nuclear weapons in Viet Nam and Anthony Lake's role] * [http://minagahet.blogspot.com/2007/03/rubin-lake-incident.html A blog post on the "Rubin Lake Incident" in Guam] {{start box}} {{succession box| before=[[Brent Scowcroft]]| title=[[National Security Advisor (United States)|United States National Security Advisor]]| after=[[Sandy Berger]]| years=1993&ndash;1997}} {{end box}} {{NSAA}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Lake, Anthony}} [[Category:1939 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Directors of Policy Planning]] [[Category:Political scientists]] [[Category:United States National Security Advisors]] [[Category:Mount Holyoke College faculty]] [[Category:Georgetown University faculty]] [[Category:Amherst College faculty]] [[Category:Harvard University alumni]] [[Category:Princeton University alumni]] [[Category:Clinton Administration personnel]] [[Category:Converts to Judaism]] [[fr:Anthony Lake]] [[ja:アンソニー・レイク]]