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Samantha Power: Obama, Human Rights, and the Lessons of the New Diplomacy
Samantha Power, Special Assistant to President Barack Obama and Senior Director of Multilateral Affairs at the National Security Council, addressed students in the Donald and Vera Blinken Lecture. [March 28, 2011]
Her lecture was featured in the New York Times: “Our best judgment,” she said, defending the decision to establish a no-fly zone to prevent atrocities, was that failure to do so would have been “extremely chilling, deadly and indeed a stain on our collective conscience.”
Samantha Power, Special Assistant to President Barack Obama and Senior Director of Multilateral Affairs at the National Security Council, addressed students in the Donald and Vera Blinken Lecture. [March 28, 2011]
Her lecture was featured in the New York Times: “Our best judgment,” she said, defending the decision to establish a no-fly zone to prevent atrocities, was that failure to do so would have been “extremely chilling, deadly and indeed a stain on our collective conscience.”