Samantha Power

The Associated Press is reporting that Samantha Power will get a job on the National Security Council staff. (That’s via Laura Rozen and Matthew Yglesias.) It’s a shame that reporter Matthew Lee focuses on the inane “monster” pseudo-controversy from the primaries, because Power is perhaps the most innovative foreign policy scholar of her generation, and [...]

Politico’s Ben Smith adds to Laura Rozen’s report on President-elect Barack Obama’s South Asia-themed dinner last week. Ben learns that Pepsi CEO Indra Nooyi was there, along with an important defense adviser to Obama’s presidential campaign, Air Force Maj. Gen. Scott Gration (Ret).
That raises a question: why doesn’t — as best I can tell — [...]

The former Clinton-era State Dept. official shares with the president-elect a frustration with conventional foreign-policy thinking. Impatient with ideology, she focuses on transnational threats, challenges and opportunities — befitting the emphasis of a new generation of global strategists. Her experience with Africa has taught her invaluable lessons.