Albright's former spokeswoman reveals its rare career moments, singles out insistence on Kosovo

Rubin, among other things, remembers the time in the 1990s when Albright was the only woman in a “male” and how he joked by saying that if he ever wrote a book, he would be named “14 Suits and an End”, after spending most of his time at the UN Security Council with 14 male ambassadors.

Rubin points out that in the cases of Kosovo and NATO enlargement, Albright's involvement made a crucial difference.

“After returning from a particularly intensive meeting at the White House, she showed me how she wanted a decision on Kosovo, telling a senior administration official: “As a UN ambassador, I was ignored for Bosnia, but this time I am Secretary of State and we will have a discussion about the use of force in Kosovo”.

“Now if looked back, it turns out that the people of Kosovo were lucky that their quest for freedom occurred at the time when the Western world was functioning in all its cylinders, and when you were in charge of a secretary of state with unique knowledge and history”, recalls Ruby in his writing