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Samantha Power

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Irish-American academic, author and diplomat

United StatesAcademicsBorn 1970 · age 56
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Samantha Jane Power is an Irish-American journalist, diplomat, and government official. She was the United States Ambassador to the United Nations from 2013 to 2017, and the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development from 2021 to 2025. Power is a member of the Democratic Party.

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Samantha Power
said · 2003
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Some anti-Americanism derives simply from our being a colossus that bestrides the earth. This resentment may be incurable. But much anti-Americanism derives from the role U.S.

Article in The New Republic (2003), as quoted in the Wall Street Journal.

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Samantha Power
said · 2003
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It’s hard to know how to deal with liberalization in cultures that have been repressed for a long time, that don’t have strong civil societies.

Samantha Power: How to lose friends and make enemies, Boston Phoenix, 2003.

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Samantha Power
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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....

"Samantha Power on U.S. Foreign Policy", an interview with in Molly Lanzarotta, Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government

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Awards 7

2011Great Immigrants Award
2004Time 100
2003Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
2003J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize
2003Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
2002National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction
Order of Princess Olga, 1st class

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Country
United States
Category
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Type
Academic
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Dates
Born 1970 · age 56
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