Samantha Power's Blog

Samantha talks to Doug Fabrizio on KUER following the world premiere of "Sergio," an HBO documentary directed by Greg Barker and based on Power's book "Chasing the Flame," at the Sundance Film Festival.[image error]

Cited as one of the "75 Most Influential People of the 21st Century", Power gets the nod for her contributions to the foreign policy debate and her work getting mass atrocities and the human face of foreign policy choices embedded into the public consciousness. Power takes her place on the list among innovators and intellectuals from Senator Obama to Bill and Melinda Gates.

Accompanying this feature in Esquire is the artistic interpretation of the work of the honorees by mixed-media artist Linco

Power's review of Gary Bass's Freedom battle appears on Slate this week. Assessing double-edged sword of "humanitarian intervention", Power outlines the hypocrisy of states who commit human rights abuses, and then turn a critical eye to countries who have committed similar - or even lesser - sins, calling for intervention. She concludes that Bass's work is a comprehensive historical look at the positive and negative applications of humanitarian intervention, and muses on the path that must be

Commemorating the 5th anniversary of the bombing of the Canal Hotel - known as the "UN's 9/11" - Power turns a critical eye on the current state of security for humanitarian and civilian aid workers. With the recent killings of IRC workers in Afghanistan, aid workers are continually finding themselves targets of violent militant groups that equate them with government and armed forces.

Power writes, "We cannot return to a pre-8/19 world any more than we can return to a pre-9/11 one. Neither th

In "A Question of Honor", the role of dignity in foreign affairs is mused, while taking a critical look at the reign of Vladimir Putin. Power charts the perceived diplomatic slights of Putin's term, the consequences of those perceptions, and the danger of using aggression to restore honor.[image error]

In "Karadzic a Big Win for Hague Cops", Samantha's latest Time Magazine column, SP examines the importance of international courts of justice and discusses some important lessons skeptics can learn from Serbia, Chile and Liberia. Reflecting upon her own experience in Bosnia during the Balkan Crisis, Power ruminates on what the arrest of Karadzic means for the future of accountability for war crimes.[image error]

In her upcoming piece for the New York Review of Books, Samantha evaluates the long-held view that the Republicans are the 'national security party.' In 'The Democrats and National Security,' SP explains how this view developed and how it has been diminished under George W. Bush. She also addresses the main themes that Barack Obama should focus on for highlighting the weaknesses of this view and how the Democrats can show they will prove more reliable in keeping America safe.

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In her latest Time Magazine column, "Saving Zimbabwe," Samantha discusses the problems of forcible regime change what should be done, instead, about the crisis in Zimbabwe. Read it here.[image error]

Samantha examines the principle of engaging in dialogue with our enemies and its history in "Talking with Evil," her latest Time Magazine column.[image error]