Hubert Védrine French Foreign Policy Collection.

VéDRINE, Hubert [Madeleine Albright].

$1,250.00

Item Number: 147905

Collection of nine works from the former Minister of Foreign Affairs of France, Hubert Védrine, from the library of Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. The works include: Les Mondes de Francois Mitterrand [1996], Les Cartes de la France [2000], France in an Age of Globalization [2001], Face a l’Hyoer-Puissance Textes et Discours 1995-2003 [2003], Continuer l’Histoire [2007], Rapport pour le President de la Republique sur la France et la Mondialisation [2007], Comptes a Rebours [2018], Et Apres? [2020], Dictionnaire Amoureux de la Geopolitique [2021]. Octavo, original wrappers, eight works in French and one work in English, bookplate to the front pastedown from ‘The Private Collection of Secretary Madeleine K. Albright’. Eight of the works are presentation copies, inscribed to Secretary Madeleine K. Albright. The recipient, Madeleine K. Albright, was the first woman to serve as the U.S. Secretary of State. She acted under President Bill Clinton from 1997 to 2001, leading the United States through foreign policy in the Middle East with the endorsement of military action in Iraq. At the 1998 NATO summit, Albright coined the “3 Ds” of NATO, “which is no diminution of NATO, no discrimination and no duplication – because I think that we don’t need any of those three “Ds” to happen.” After her tenure as Secretary of State, she served as chair of the consulting Albright Stonebridge Group and was the Michael and Virginia Mortara Endowed Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. For Albright’s contributions to foreign policy and relations that defined a century, President Barack Obama awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012. In very good to fine condition.

Hubert Védrine is a prominent French diplomat and political thinker known for his realist approach to international relations. Serving as France’s Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1997 to 2002 under President Jacques Chirac, he played a key role in shaping French and European foreign policy during a period marked by U.S. unipolar dominance. Védrine is widely recognized for coining the term hyperpuissance (hyperpower) to describe the United States' overwhelming global influence following the Cold War, advocating for a multipolar world order to counterbalance American hegemony. His work emphasizes the need for European strategic autonomy, multilateralism, and a pragmatic approach to global governance. Through his writings and public commentary, Védrine continues to influence debates on diplomacy, security, and the evolving geopolitical landscape.