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Richard Armitage, the keynote luncheon speaker at this year’s Kennedy School Dean’s Conference, held in April, focused his talk on Iraq and the Bush administration’s foreign policy. Armitage, introduced by Dean Joseph S. Nye, Jr. as “a role model of what it means to be a public servant,” is deputy secretary of state under Colin Powell.

“There’s a paradox at the very heart of our foreign policy,” he said to the crowd of mostly Kennedy School alumni. “We’re at an age when the United States enjoys predominance. We’ve got power, influence, prestige, and clout. Yet our predominance doesn’t always bring the results we want. We have to face the fact that the context and content [of the world] has changed.

“Maybe,” he said, “predominance isn’t as simple as it seems.”