Samantha Power

Another longstanding foreign policy flaw is the degree to which special interests dictate the way in which the "national interest" as a whole is defined and pursued.

Samantha Power (born 21 September 1970) is an Irish-born journalist, writer, academic and a member of the National Security Council in the Obama administration.

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• Another longstanding foreign policy flaw is the degree to which special interests dictate the way in which the "national interest" as a whole is defined and pursued.... America's important historic relationship with Israel has often led foreign policy decision-makers to defer reflexively to Israeli security assessments, and to replicate Israeli tactics, which, as the war in Lebanon last summer demonstrated, can turn out to be counter-productive.
  • "Samantha Power on U.S. Foreign Policy", an interview with in Molly Lanzarotta, Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government (14 March 2007)

External links

• Personal Homepage
• Profile at Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University
  • Recent Articles by Samantha Power
• Faculty profile at Harvard
• Samantha Power: Biography at PBS
• "A League Of Her Own" in Men's Vogue (June 2007)
• "Fun Couple of the 21st Century" on Power and Cass Sunstein in Esquire (10 October 2008)