From sharply rising tensions with a nuclear North Korea and decertification of the Iran nuclear deal to China’s growing global assertiveness and the State Department pullback from projecting American values, such as democracy and human rights, around the world, the United States faces urgent national security challenges.

In a panel discussion Monday evening at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) moderated by MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, former members of President Obama’s cabinet described what they see as a fraying of alliances, a loss of credibility with allies and enemies, a stepping back as a leader on human rights and democracy, and a relinquishment of diplomacy as a critical component of national security.

The debate in the United States about foreign interference concentrates on who did what to influence last year’s election and the need for democracies to strengthen their cybersecurity for emails, critical infrastructure and voting platforms. But we need to pay far more attention to another vulnerability: our adversaries’ attempts to subvert our democratic processes by aiming falsehoods at ripe subsets of our population — and not only during elections.

Adapted from her introduction to the memorial edition of Elie Wiesel’s seminal memoir of surviving the Nazi death camps, Samantha Power writes about the impact and influence of Night on readers throughout the world. 

Samantha Power, United States Ambassador to the United Nations from 2013 until 2017, has been named to a joint faculty appointment at Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Law School. 

Graham Allison’s impact as Director of the Center has been extraordinary—“impossible to overestimate” in the words of Harvard Kennedy School Dean Doug Elmendorf.

A lively discussion of “Russiagate” at the JFK Jr. Forum on Tuesday, May 2, launched the 2017 annual meeting of the Belfer Center International Council . 

Full remarks by former U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations Samantha Power Honoring New York Review of Books Founder Bob Silvers on April 26, 2017.

Samantha Power, who served as the 28^th United States Ambassador to the United Nations from 2013 until 2017, is joining the Belfer Center as a senior member, board member, and director of the Center’s new International Peace and Security Project. Power has been named to a joint faculty appointment at Harvard Law School and Harvard Kennedy School, where she will serve as the Anna Lindh Professor of the Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy and will be affiliated with both the Belfer Center and the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. Power first came to the Belfer Center in 1998 as project director of the Center’s Human Rights Initiative which became the Carr Center in 1998 with Power as inaugural director.

Full remarks by former U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations Samantha honoring Aryeh Neier with his Lifetime Achievement Award at the International Women’s Health Coalition Annual Dinner in New York City on March 7, 2017.

No matter how much our countries’ relationship deteriorated — and we saw a steep decline during our time together — we had much in common as individuals.