U.S. Urged to Adopt Policy Justifying Intervention (R2P)
07.24.2013 at 02:46am
U.S. Urged to Adopt Policy Justifying Intervention by Mark Landler, New York Times.
When Samantha Power, President Obama’s nominee to be ambassador to the United Nations, faced senators at her confirmation hearing last week, the first question from Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee, the ranking Republican, was how she defined an idealistic, if somewhat obscure, foreign policy principle known as “responsibility to protect.”
It was a politically loaded question to a woman who made her name as an academic by arguing that nations have a moral obligation to act against genocide and other mass atrocities…
