Michael Armacost

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Michael Armacost, 1982

Michael Hayden Armacost (born April 15, 1937 in Cleveland , Ohio ) is an American business executive and former diplomat who served as the United States Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, the third highest post in the United States Department of State .

Life

Ambassador and Under Secretary of State

Armacost is the son of George H. Armacost, who was President of the University of Redlands , and brother of Peter Armacost, a former President of Eckerd College, and Samuel Armacost , President and Chief Executive Officer of Bank of America from 1981 to 1986 was.

After attending school, he first studied at Carleton College , where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in 1958 . He then completed postgraduate studies at Columbia University in 1961 with a Master of Arts (MA) before he was awarded a Philosophiae Doctor (Ph.D.) there in 1965 . He then became a professor at Pomona College in Claremont and then from 1968 to 1969 at the International Christian University in Tokyo .

After his return to the USA, he was a member of the staff for political planning in the US State Department between 1969 and 1972 and at the same time a White House Fellow of the State Department until 1970 and a member of the Defense Policy Board there . After serving as a special assistant to the Ambassador to Japan from 1972 to 1974, he then returned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a staff member for political planning.

After he was senior staff member for East Asia on the staff of the National Security Council from 1977 to 1978 , he became Deputy Assistant Secretary in the US Department of Defense ( US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense ).

He then returned to the State Department and was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and Oceania Affairs between 1980 and 1982 , before becoming Ambassador to the Philippines in March 1982, succeeding Richard W. Murphy .

He then took over in May 1984 as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, the third highest post in the State Department of the United States, held this office until March 1989, making it the longest serving in office. The last time Armacost was Ambassador to Japan from May 1989 to July 1993 was Mike Mansfield's successor .

Activities in the private sector and organizations

After retiring from the diplomatic service in 1993, he moved into the private sector and became a member of the Board of Directors of Applied Materials, and in 1994 he became a member of the Board of Directors of Aflac and in 2002 of USEC. He was also a member of the Cargill and TRW bodies .

Furthermore, Armacost was not only involved in the Council on Foreign Relations and as a trustee of Carleton College, but also a fellow at the Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanford University from 1993 to 1995 . He was then President of the Brookings Institution between 1995 and 2002 , before being again a Fellow at the Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanford University in 2002.

He was also part of the America Abroad Media Advisory Board, the Board of Trustees of the Asia Foundation and the Board of Directors of the National Committee on US-China Relations. Finally, he also took on roles in the American Academy of Diplomacy, the Aspen Institute , Bohemian Grove , the Hoover Institution and the Trilateral Commission .

Publications

  • United States Policy for the Changing Realities of East Asia: Toward a New Consensus , co-authors Daniel I. Okimoto, Henry S. Rowen, Michel Oksenberg, James H. Raphael, Thomas P. Rohlen, Donald K. Emmerson (1996)
  • Japan: Tilting Closer to Washington (2003)
  • Future of America's Alliances in Northeast Asia , co-author Daniel I. Okimoto (2004)
  • America's Role in Asia in 2004: An Overview , co-author J. Stapleton Roy (2004)
  • Cross Currents: Regionalism and Nationalism in Northeast Asia , co-authors Gi-Wook Shin, Daniel C. Sneider, Vinod K. Aggarwal, Paul Evans, David Kang, Tomoyuki Kojima, Min Gyo Koo, Su Hoon Lee, Makio Miyagawa, Mark Peattie, Randall Schriver, Yinhong Shi, Scott Snyder, Feng Zhu (2007)
  • Asian Policy Challenges for the Next President , co-author J. Stapleton Roy (2008)
  • New Beginnings in the US-ROK Alliance: Recommendations to the Obama Administration , co-authors Thomas C. Hubbard, Evans JR Revere, Gi-Wook Shin, Charles Jack L. Pritchard, Don Oberdorfer, David Straub, Daniel C. Sneider, Robert Carlin, Victor Cha (2009)
  • Addressing the North Korea Nuclear Challenge , co-authors Daniel I. Okimoto, Gi-Wook Shin (2003)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Armacost, Career US Envoy, Elected to Brookings Presidency , Brookings Institution, June 2, 1995
  2. ^ Homepage of the Asia Foundation
personal data
SURNAME Armacost, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Armacost, Michael Hayden (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American diplomat and business manager
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Cleveland , Ohio