It’s the fifteenth anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre, and via Laura Rozen, here’s an interview Samantha Power gave to what I gather is a Serbian publication (sorry if I’ve gotten that wrong) Bosniac Muslim publication. Power, whom I respect a great deal, is the senior National Security Council staffer dealing with human-rights promotion and multinational [...]

I spent the evening at a screening of a soon-to-be-released HBO documentary about Sergio Vieira de Mello, the legendary international diplomat. It’s based on Samantha Power’s remarkable book exploring de Mello’s career as the apotheosis of a breed of diplomat emerging in the latter stages of the Cold War that husbands the United Nations in [...]