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DonViejo

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Thu Jun 12, 2014, 09:07 AM Jun 2014

Clinton’s women-centric approach to foreign policy could shape her campaign

BY NIA-MALIKA HENDERSON
June 12 at 6:30 am

As Hillary Clinton continues her book tour and decides whether she will make another run for the White House, one question she will continue to get is what big ticket diplomatic achievements she can put on her mission accomplished list.
Republicans say, not much, even as Clinton has dedicated 600 pages to outlining the “hard choices” and complicated issues she faced in her four years at the State Department.

What is clear is that Clinton, should she run, will make the work she did in elevating the status of women and girls central to her platform and policy strengths. The final chapter of her book serves as a template for how she might run and frame her legacy at State and her vision in the White House. It is dedicated to global gender issues, what she calls the “unfinished business” of human rights, and her work in this area serves as a kind of anchor for the entire book as it is woven through almost every chapter.

Her former aides at the State Department say that the status of women and girls served a similar role in her approach to global affairs.

“The most important piece of the legacy and a really lasting piece of it is that she really built the evidence-based case rather than appealing on a moral basis or fairness argument,” said Jennifer Klein, who worked with Clinton at the State Department. “She built a business case for it and why it matters for security and the economy. And through her work at the State Department she really tried to make sure the work of the Office of Women and Girls was implemented across departments.”

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