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Harriman Magazine

Alumni Notes
Hillary Claggett
MIA 1986; HI Specialization

After a brief postgraduate stint at the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, I embarked on my career in publishing, which eventually led to my current role as Senior Acquisitions Editor at Georgetown University Press. Before that, I spent ten years publishing books on international affairs, consonant with my Harriman specializations in national security and Russian studies. In the mid-2000s I published a series of books that warned of Putin’s ambitions at a time when Western politicians and many in the media had taken their eyes off the ball—I credit Zbigniew Brzezinski’s Soviet foreign policy seminar for this prescience. Even today, as a business editor, I draw upon my Harriman roots, working with two Ukrainian authors on a very special book whose ending cannot yet be written.

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