The Art of Diplomacy with Stuart Eizenstat

The Elie Wiesel Center invites you to join us on March 20th for the 2025 Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Lecture. This year’s lecture will feature Stuart Eizenstat, the accomplished diplomat and author who has served in six U.S. administrations, including as chief White House domestic policy adviser to President Jimmy Carter, Ambassador to the European Union, under secretary of commerce, under secretary of state and deputy secretary of the treasury under President Bill Clinton, and Special Representative of the President and Secretary of State on Holocaust-Era Issues. He is now the chairman of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Eizenstat’s lecture, “The Art of Diplomacy: How American Negotiators Reached Historic Agreements That Changed the World,” will explore themes from his book of the same name. He will explain the context for writing this book and discuss his analysis of whether, when, and how to use American military force to support diplomacy. Eizenstat will apply the findings in the book to contemporary challenges in Ukraine and Gaza, showing how American leadership has solved equally daunting problems in the past and can do so again.

This lecture will take place on March 20th at 5:00 pm EST in the Boston University Hillel House (213 Bay State Rd, Boston, MA — 4th Floor). A book sale and signing will follow the lecture as well as a reception.

Registration is required for this event. A livestream ticket option is available for those who cannot attend in-person.

Speaker Bio

Stuart E. Eizenstat has served in six U.S. administrations, including as chief White House domestic policy adviser to President Jimmy Carter and deputy secretary of the treasury under President Bill Clinton. An accomplished diplomat and author, he currently chairs the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Council and has received eight honorary doctorate degrees and over 75 awards, including Harvard Law School’s “Great Negotiator” award and high honors from the governments of Austria, Belgium, France (Legion of Honor), Germany, Israel and the U.S. Much of the reason that Holocaust justice issues are on the world’s agenda is due to his leadership.

Host or Publisher Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies at BU