Madeleine Albright, the United State's first female secretary of state, has died.
As secretary of state, Albright served the Clinton administration in a crucial role during the immediate aftermath of the Cold War.
President Clinton appointed her secretary of state in his second term. Before that, Albright served the administration as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
Albright was 84 and had been suffering from cancer.
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In aย New York Times op-edย written last month just before Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Albright argued that Russian leader Vladimir Putin would be making โa historic errorโ in invading Ukraine and warned of devastating costs to his country.
โInstead of paving Russia's path to greatness, invading Ukraine would ensure Mr. Putin's infamy by leaving his country diplomatically isolated, economically crippled and strategically vulnerable in the face of a stronger, more united Western alliance,โ Albright wrote.
She was a face of US foreign policy in the decade between the end of the Cold War and the war on terror triggered by the September 11, 2001, attacks, an era heralded by President George H.W. Bush as a โnew world order.โ The US, particularly in Iraq and the Balkans, built international coalitions and occasionally intervened militarily to roll back autocratic regimes, andย Albrightย โ a self-identified โpragmatic idealistโ who coined the term โassertive multilateralismโ to describe the Clinton administration's foreign policy โ drew from her experience growing up inย a family that fled the Nazisย and communists in mid-20th century Europe to shape her worldview.
She saw the US as the โindispensable nationโ when it came to using diplomacy backed by the use of force to defend democratic values around the world.
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