Samantha Power: Education of an Idealist

Lecture Notes by Dr Patrick A ODougherty

Immigrant to war correspondent to cabinet member interviewed by Ana Mendez 1pressured speech and driven lecture not a discussion 2 siege mentality

Education of an Idealist

Baseball, romance and Putin

January 20th 2017

Activate need 

Can one person make a difference? 

Own journey take charge

Barack Obama 

Banging his head against the wall

Wanting to activate! Can we make a difference?

9 to Pittsburgh 

Atlanta GA 

War correspondence

Hague war criminals

A Problem from Hell, book

Rumors are true Mr President

Yes we can, chapter

Democratic season

Other dimensions 

Spring of 2007

Primary campaigns get the kinks out of the system

Not inevitable at all

25% points behind in Iowa

18% behind

A disaster

Squash player and Red Sock fan,  CASS

Private lament

Professors

Spoke publicly on his staff

Assortment of issues 1 Guantanamo

Obama and CASS taught Constitutional law

auto filled

Daniel Grey 

A large poster

Email mishaps

Tom Keenan

Mass atrocities

Run down of flaws

Incompatibilities were deep

Dress better

Send a ping 

You didn’t 

A list serve of thousands

Genocide survivors

US ambassador to the UN

Dress better

Rule of law speech 

Now married with 2 children

Funny moments

Menedez

Register children’s names birthdays

One job

Humor

Name change

Power sustenances

Amended

Character or plot

Style and forms dimensions of writing

Be Critic of government 

Behind the government

Language experts

Livid in the countries

Condense your life into a chapter

Condensed into a chapter

Why do they believe what they believe

Pub in Dublin writing about addiction

Stayed with her father

Addiction

Surmount the demons

Agency and responsibility

Linear psychological fact

Driven lives 

Neglecting person lives

Round out the picture 

Plot arch

Poster board 

Arcs gender leader

End of history 

Tools America has to rule the world

Intentional 

Being an individual

Work as part of a team

Learn from other people

Lean on not in

Russian ambassador

A lot of victories in the Ebola crisis

US led 69 co sponsors

Use of fear 

Travel bans 

Go it  alone

Learned from Obama Ebola crisis

Health workers into epidemic

Skepticism to do good

Globalization

Afganistan war 18 years

ISIS left and went back 

Sinkhole

CDC graphic showing 1.4 million infections 

A curve bend the curve 

Many Isolated infected people

No return

Ebola with terrorism

Fear over time

Tweets virile

Rubber necking on the highway

How the international UN  works when it works

Game theory 101

First mover

Both 

Cubans medical health Corp

UN offices are countries

Leadership hustles

Credit from what you prevented

West Africa 

Doomsday statistics

Bend the curve

Son, Declan

Naïveté

Press document American heroes

Manageable versus

Declan

Nola die

Bola

UN international school

Freak out 

Quaranteened

Hilarious 

Diplomacy 

Breast pump

Draw inspiration from efforts

Honest about the world with your children

Privileged leader 

Time from children

Water bag breaking one month early with Declan

Armenian genocide

Character is life

The juggle

Secretary of State

Topics the dynamic is similar 

Stomp off with frustration

Putin not Declan

Explain absences

Contemporary crisis

Russia in Crimea

Owned toys before

I am bigger I will and I can

Living in Ireland at the pub

CASS was teaching at Harvard

Smith in Manhattan

Seasoned professional 

Ukrainian TV live

Dialogue with children

Cold War Drama

Tracking 

Did they leave Crimea

Focused on the right thing

Drive him into therapy

Lucky children

Making a difference

Crisis fatigue

Free the 20 

Syria

Switch a book by Dan and Chip Heath

Shrink the change

Large problem 

Big solutions

Not within the power of 1 person

What one person can do 

Climate change 

What you can do

Energy fix

Freedom recession

Receding

Since end of Cold War

Shrink the change

#freethe20

Female political prisoners out of jail

20 days President Shia in China

Hung portraits

Sexual abuse

Walk by political prisoners

16 released from jail

Universe for the person

Make social change

Syria has no diplomatic solution

Work with Russian ambassadors 

One stone

Clarity on genocide

How can you elevate the problem of genocide

List of indicted

For war crimes

Joseph Coney in Africa

A panacea not

Eliminate a group

Out side actors

Sudan issues

I idea

Extinction

Look at your tools

Mitigating providing hopes

Tool box

Compassion

Congress equals allies

Change 

Stand together 

Multi lateraling your tools Russia blocks 

Fly zones

Template4 

Optimize

Prioritize

Aspiring diplomat

Elena Kagan profiled

Swing to her side of arguments

Had to work with Russia

Security Council

Not veto

I have to

Space for self Awareness

 Your standards

Critical judgements recede

Areas for cooperation

Inhabit the grey zones and know you are there

Proud American 

Damaged relationships

Middle class politics

Mission standards

Not give back 

Alliances are grave

Paris climate treaty

China free trade zone

Attacked as Deep State

Iran

Core foreign policy consensus

Values  have a place

Values

Iran agreement ripped up

Climate denial

Alliances and values

Leadership has no rules

Telling the truth again

Human rights are a value

China

Principles to real life

In their shoes

Hedging attempted to do

Discourse of country a Problem from Hell

Too much

A journalist in Bosnia

Lost somebody

Air strike on a play ground

Under siege 

Siege mentality

Voyeuristc

Driven dimension 

Syrian prisons

Nothing to tell him

Gas attacks

Military entanglement

For solace

Serial numbers who they are killing

Exhibit at the UN

Hug your children at night

Diplomatic mentor

West

Mentors 

Spirts caster 

Think tank in DC

Carnegie Endowment 

Ambassador to Thailand Mortimer

Kurds to rise  up 

James Baker to witness with his own eyes 

A no fly zone in Northern Iraq

Restless energy

What can we do

360 on answer 

Being creative doing a 360 

Working 

For Putin

In mentor shop programs

Virtual mentoring