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Susan Elizabeth Rice (born November 17, 1964) is the United States National Security Advisor. Rice is a former U.S. diplomat, former Brookings Institution fellow, and former United States Ambassador to the United Nations. Rice served on the staff of the National Security Council, and as Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs during President Bill Clinton's second term. Rice was confirmed as UN ambassador by the U.S. Senate by unanimous consent on January 22, 2009. Rice's name was mentioned as a possible replacement for retiring Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2013 after President Barack Obama's November 2012 re-election, but on December 13, following ongoing controversy related to the 2012 Benghazi attack on the U.S consulate, she announced that she was withdrawing her name from consideration saying that if nominated "the confirmation process would be lengthy, disruptive, and costly".〔Tracy Connor (December 13, 2012), (Susan Rice drops out of running for secretary of state, cites 'very politicized' confirmation process ) ''NBC News''〕 Rice succeeded Tom Donilon as National Security Advisor on July 1, 2013. ==Early life and education== Rice was born in Washington, D.C.,〔"The Meteoric Rise of the State Department's Susan Rice." ''The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education'': 20 (Summer 1998), p. 40-41.〕 to Emmett J. Rice (1919–2011), Cornell University economics professor and the second black governor of the Federal Reserve System;〔 and education policy scholar Lois Fitt (née Dickson), currently at the Brookings Institution.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Lois Dickson Rice )〕 Her maternal grandparents were Jamaican. Her parents divorced when Rice was ten years of age. Rice was a three-sport athlete, student council president, and valedictorian at National Cathedral School in Washington, D.C., a private girls' day school. She played point guard in basketball and directed the offense, acquiring the nickname Spo, short for "Sportin'".〔 Rice said that her parents taught her to "never use race as an excuse or advantage", and as a young girl she "dreamed of becoming the first U.S. senator from the District of Columbia".〔 She also held "lingering fears" that her accomplishments would be diminished by people who attributed them to affirmative action.〔 After her father's death in 2011, she said, "He believed segregation had constrained him from being all he could be. The psychological hangover of that took him decades to overcome. His most fervent wish was that we not have that psychological baggage." Rice attended Stanford University, where she received a Truman Scholarship, and graduated with a BA in history in 1986. She was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Awarded a Rhodes Scholarship, Rice attended New College, Oxford, where she earned a MPhil in 1988 and DPhil in 1990. The Chatham House-British International Studies Association honored her dissertation entitled, "Commonwealth Initiative in Zimbabwe, 1979–1980: Implication for International Peacekeeping" as the UK's most distinguished in international relations.〔〔"(Black Community Services Center Hall of Fame )." Stanford Alumni Association.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Susan Rice」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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