{"id":3743,"date":"2016-01-18T08:00:24","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T13:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thediplomaticenvoy.com\/?p=3743"},"modified":"2016-04-04T15:56:59","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T19:56:59","slug":"us-ambassador-to-the-un-samantha-power-speaks-at-seton-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/2016\/01\/18\/us-ambassador-to-the-un-samantha-power-speaks-at-seton-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"Samantha Power: &#8220;Little Will Happen&#8221; Without US Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/staff\/#piroange\">Angelo Piro<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em>Staff Writer<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On January 13, United States\u00a0Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power delivered an address at\u00a0Seton Hall University on the foreign policy outlined\u00a0in\u00a0President Barack Obama&#8217;s final State of the Union. In his welcoming remarks, School of Diplomacy Dean Andrea Bartoli reflected on the importance that the event represented as an opportunity for dialogue.<\/p>\n<p>Ambassador Power took the opportunity to share her perspective\u00a0on President Obama\u2019s foreign policy plan for his final year in office, as well as reflect on the progress she and the administration have\u00a0made over the\u00a0years.<\/p>\n<p>Reiterating statements made by the president,\u00a0Ambassador Power reaffirmed her belief that the United States still stands strong and respected on the world stage. She also emphasized that the objective of President Obama\u2019s foreign policy, from the beginning of his presidency to his last days in office, has always been to ensure American strength and security, rebuking those\u00a0who have claimed that the United States has faced a decline in respect and prestige.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf there\u2019s one formula for every encounter, they\u2019re going to be asking the United States to lead, and believing that little will happen if the United States does not,&#8221; said Power.<\/p>\n<p>She laid out what she viewed as the guiding principles of American leadership abroad, both in the past and going forward: coalition-building and multilateralism, principled engagement with all parties, and preservation of American values.<\/p>\n<p>On coalition-building, Ambassador Power made clear that, while the U.S. has the means to solve many of the world\u2019s problems, the U.S. must engage other nations in reaching shared goals in order to defray the costs to the U.S. and strengthen collective efforts.\u00a0 She highlighted the recent climate change agreement signed in Paris as one example, and spoke on how she and the President are bringing this same engagement to the fight against ISIS. According to Power, multilateral tools are an extension, not an alternative, to standard U.S. practices.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, Power stated that diplomacy should become a standard of the foreign policy toolbox, as in her experience, she has\u00a0found that engagement rather than isolation is far better in affecting change.<\/p>\n<p>She highlighted the work of the Obama administration in Iran and Cuba, and spoke at length of\u00a0U.S.\u00a0commitment to better living conditions within Cuba despite the recent rapprochement, stressing America\u2019s commitment to the highest moral values. The Syrian refugee crisis, for Ambassador Power, is the greatest challenge to American moral leadership, as many seek to limit a refugee\u2019s ability to enter the US. \u00a0On this topic, the ambassador spoke with the most candor, featuring several refugee families and refugee advocates in the audience, and\u00a0speaking on her experience as the\u00a0child of immigrants.<\/p>\n<p>Ambassador Power also took time to answer questions from students and members of the Seton Hall community. These interactions ranged from questions on the U.S. policy for Central American refugees, anecdotes from\u00a0her time as U.N. Ambassador, and her take\u00a0as a journalist turned\u00a0policymaker\u00a0on how to engage the public in foreign policy matters.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The full text of Ambassador Power\u2019s remarks can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/usun.state.gov\/remarks\/7091\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Power laid out what she viewed as the guiding principles of American leadership abroad, both in the past and going forward: coalition-building and multilateralism, principled engagement with all parties, and preservation of American values.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3002,"featured_media":3749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[738,383,389],"tags":[703,704,705],"class_list":["post-3743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-february2016","category-us","category-diplo-news","tag-samantha-power","tag-school-of-diplomacy","tag-seton-hall-university"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Samantha Power: &quot;Little Will Happen&quot; 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