Chambliss, Saxby, 330, 338
Cheadle, Don, 161, 162
Chechnya, 103–105, 539
Cheek, Joey, 163
chemical weapons. See also red line for Assad regime and aftermath; sarin.
chlorine, weaponization of, 389
debates on responding to use of, 361–364, 366–371, 374–377
destruction in Syria of, 388–389, 513
Iraq’s use of, 127
problem of air strikes on, 368
public reaction to Syrian use of, 380–382, 505, 513
Syria’s, UN Security Council’s resolution on, 388
Syria’s use of, ix–x, 359–360, 362, 362n, 365, 370, 372–373, 378–379
US-Russia negotiations over Syrian stockpile of, 382–390
Chibok, Nigeria, Boko Haram and, 471–472, 485–486, 486n
China. See also Xi Jinping
contributions to international Ebola response and, 443, 453
economic clout and growing assertiveness of, 226, 347, 443, 548, 550–551
forced return of escaped North Koreans by, 529
negotiating North Korea nuclear weapons UN Security Council resolution, 528–529
policies on Sudan, 142, 161, 226, 273
positions on international security issues at the UN, 291–292, 304, 347, 417n, 438–439
reaction to #FreeThe20, 520
Tiananmen Square crackdown in, 41, 42, 46
Christie, Chris, 447
Christopher, Warren, 86, 112, 130, 426
Christian Science Monitor, 68, 101–102
The Chronicle of Higher Education, 191
Churchill, Winston, 354
Churkin, Irina, 407
Churkin, Vitaly
interventions in the UN Security Council, 406–407, 409–410, 412, 430, 467–468, 540
on ISIS executions of suspected gay Iraqis and Syrians, 522–523
LGBT UN staff benefits and, 422
negotiations with SP on Syrian chemical weapons, 383–387
as Russia’s UN representative, 383–384, 405
Security Council resolution on Srebrenica genocide and, 428–431
SP on General Assembly resolution on Crimea and, 416–417
SP on Syria and Russia’s siege of Aleppo and, 540
SP’s relationship with, 383–384, 404–408, 426, 515, 541
Ukraine and, 409–412, 417–418, 426–428
Clapper, Jim, 484
climate change
Paris climate agreement, 401, 530–531, 531n, 537, 542, 550
perspectives of countries threatened by, 401–402
Clinton, Bill and administration, 53, 55, 78–79, 85–86, 95–96, 106, 153, 270, 363
Clinton, Hillary
on leaning in vs. leaning on, 459
presidential campaigns
Democratic primary of 2007–2008, 167, 171–173, 183–184
election of 2016, 532–535
Geneva speech on gay rights by, 281
“monster” controversy, 181–191, 197, 199
as Secretary of State
positions on Libya and, 294–295, 298, 305
SP interactions with, 248, 293–295
Suu Kyi and, 318–319
Clooney, George, 161, 162, 163, 267
Cody, Ed, 99–100
Cohen, Ben, 62–68
Cohen, Roger, 93–94
Colbert, Stephen, 195
Coleman, Isobel, 351n, 423
The Confidence Code (Kay and Shipman), 465
confirmation bias, 507–508
Congress, x, 58, 104, 106, 128, 131, 142, 149, 151–154, 214, 217, 296, 354, 374–377, 380, 382, 382n, 386, 388–390, 445, 452–454, 497
“Conventional Washington versus the Change We Need” (Obama memo on foreign policy), 173
Cooper, Kurtis, 349, 352, 353, 478, 480, 481, 485, 519–520
Council on Foreign Relations, 151
Cousens, Elizabeth, 351n
Crimean peninsula in Ukraine. See also Ukraine
General Assembly resolution on referendum in, 415–417, 417n
Russia’s seizure of, 408, 410–411, 414–415
Croatia, 47, 54n, 54–55, 63, 65–67, 68–69, 75–77, 81, 431–433
Crown, John, 193–194
Cruz, Ted, 329, 330–331
Cuba, 172, 324, 356–358, 443, 453, 463
Cuban Missile Crisis (1962), 409
Cuny, Craig and Chris, 105
Cuny, Fred, 50–51, 54, 57–58, 60, 61, 63, 68–69, 77–78, 103–105, 212, 539
Cuomo, Andrew, 447, 448
Czechoslovakia, 46, 403
Dachau concentration camp, Germany, 45–46, 109, 119
Daily Jang, Pakistan, 63, 64, 71
Daly, Emma, 84–85, 97
Danvers, Bill, 331–334, 340
Daqneesh, Omran, 500–501
Darfur, 135, 137–140, 140–141, 141–142, 142–143, 162–165, 225–226, 467, 467n. See also genocide
Darwish, Mazen, 516
Dayton, Ohio peace talks and accords, 111–112, 113, 116
de Blasio, Bill, 447
Deaver, Mike, 466
Déby, Idriss, 473, 485
Delaney, Vera and Eddie Bourke, 12–13, 18, 28, 33, 36, 56, 61, 73–75, 124, 134–135, 326–327, 339, 366, 407, 439–440, 459–461, 497, 499, 504, 542
Delaney, Vera. See also Delaney, Vera and Eddie Bourke
custody battles, 3, 14, 24–25, 27
educational aspirations, 3–4
engagement with SP’s work and community, 72, 77, 163, 250, 328–329, 339, 435, 439–440, 449, 460, 461, 481, 497, 499, 504, 533, 542
Jim’s funeral and, 30–31
marital discord and, 11–12, 13–15
as mother to young SP, 7–8, 16, 19–22, 27–28, 36
Pittsburgh adjustments for, 20–23
removing her children from their father’s home, 25–27
sole custody of children for, 14–15
on SP as war correspondent, 72–73, 97
on SP including her in Ambassadorial activities, 460–461, 499
on SP traveling to Ebola-affected countries in West Africa, 449
after SP’s UN appointment ended, 545–546
on SP winning Pulitzer Prize, 134
SP’s first spot on NPR and, 77
stay in Kuwait by, 12–13
DeKalb County School System, Georgia, majority-to-minority (M-to-M) transfer program, 34–36
DeKalb NAACP, 34
DeLaurentis, Jeffrey, 351n
democracy, progress and trends, 41, 43–44, 509, 547–549
Dempsey, Martin, 365, 366–367, 437, 507
The Departed (film), 267
DeRosa, Mary, 252–253
Des Moines Register, 174, 180
Diary of a Young Girl (Frank), 118–119
DiCarlo, Rosemary, 351n, 366, 415
dignity, xi, 35–36, 41–42, 46, 92, 130, 220, 248–249, 264, 276–277, 280–282, 295, 326, 380, 395–397, 401–402, 408, 411–412, 469–470, 492, 521, 523–524, 526–527, 547, 551
diplomats and diplomacy, 286–287, 308–309, 370, 518, 549–551
Doherty, Glen, 310–311
Dolovich, Sharon, 110–111
Donilon, Tom, 203, 216, 219, 219–220, 228n, 283, 290, 296, 297, 318, 326
Doody, Susan, 13, 25, 27, 29, 30, 31
Doubane, Charles, 391, 392–394
Dowd, Maureen, 188, 305
Dreams from My Father (Obama), 145
Drew, Nelson, 93–94
Drudge Report, 181–182
Duncan, Thomas Eric, 444
Ebola
containment of, 436, 438, 442–443, 445, 451, 455–456, 548
effects of, 436, 438, 440–441, 449–450, 454–455
NSC meetings on, 435–436, 452–454
possible travel ban in response to, 445, 445n, 452–454
Security Council session on, 438–443
SP travel to West African countries affected by, 446–449, 450–453, 450n
&
nbsp; stigma surrounding, 447, 451–452
Treatment Units, 437–438, 450–451, 452, 456
Trump’s tweets on, 434–435
in the US, 434, 443–446
US military involvement, 437–438, 446, 448–449, 450–454, 456
US response to, 434–436, 443–447, 452–453, 456, 550
West African cases and deaths, 449–450
West African countries declared free of, 455–456
“effectiveness trap,” 514–515
Egypt, 249–250, 284, 287–288, 289–290, 299, 307, 425n, 468, 518, 519, 521, 524
Eisenhower Executive Office Building (EEOB), 211, 212, 213, 224, 251, 254, 272, 286
Emmet, Robert, 18
Emory University School of Medicine, 28, 36
Emvula, Wilfried, 462
“The End of History?” (Fukuyama), 44–45
English, Carey, 63–64, 70, 320
Eno, Brian, 181, 182, 184
Erdoğan, Recep Tayyip, 243–244
European Union, 236, 276, 314, 408, 454, 506n. See also specific countries
Eustis, Oskar, 407
Evans, John, 235
Every Day Is Extra (Kerry), 386–387
Exit, Voice, and Loyalty (Hirschman), 514
Ezekiel, Aisha, 485–486, 486n
“Fake News,” 540
Favreau, Jon, 261–262, 263, 331–332
Federal Security Service, Russia, 270
Fenway Park, 124, 136, 185
Financial Times, 134, 191
Fine, Debbie, 155–156
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 386
Flournoy, Michèle, 228n
Foreign Policy, 51, 64–66
Fox News
on administration statements on Ukraine, 420
criticizing Cass, 231
on Ebola and the US, 434, 444
on first day of Syria red line crisis, 366
on SP’s UN nomination, 323, 324, 329, 331, 353
Foxman, Abraham, 502–503
Frank, Anne, 45, 49, 118–119
Franken, Al, 380
Frankfurter, Felix, 109n
Frasure, Robert, 93–94
Freedom of Information Act, 48, 127
#Freethe20 campaign, 518–522
Frieden, Tom, 436, 437, 438
Fukuyama, Francis, 44–45, 398
Gaelic language and instruction, 14–15, 18, 27
Galbraith, Peter, 128, 131–132, 143, 144
Gates, Robert, 219, 248n, 298–299
Gbagbo, Laurent, 274
Gdańsk Shipyard, Poland, 46
genocide. See also human rights; specific countries
Armenian, 121, 127–128, 234–244, 246, 249, 332, 429
Central African Republic, potential for, 391–392, 393–394
Darfur, 135, 140–143, 161–165, 225
Rohingya, 315–316, 316n
Rwandan, 118, 120–121, 127, 131, 142, 226, 274, 339–340, 353, 360, 363, 379, 514
Save Darfur Coalition, 140–143
Save Darfur Coalition rally (2006), 162–165
SP law school research paper on, 121–122
SP on US recognition of Armenian, 235–238, 239–242, 244
SP on US toolbox for preventing, 133, 266–269, 269–273, 273–276, 282
Srebrenica, 99, 100–101, 101–103, 109–110, 428–430
UN Convention on, 119n, 128
Gibbs, Robert, 154
Gibson, Derry (SP’s uncle), 197, 202, 359
Gibson, Patricia (SP’s aunt), 197, 202, 359
Gingrich, Newt, 265
Gitter, Manya-Jean, 493
Goldberg, Jeffrey, 512
Goolsbee, Austan, 176, 180, 183, 184, 185, 190
Gourevitch, Philip, 120–121
Graham, Lindsey, 329–330
Gray, Danielle, 170
Grenell, Richard, 366
GSD (Get Shit Done), 268, 396
Guinea, 435, 436–437, 439, 447, 451–452, 455–456, 456n
Gül, Abdullah, 238
Guterres, António, 468
Hagel, Chuck, 376, 377, 437
Haines, Avril, 498
Haiti, 87, 88, 283, 296, 425
Haley, Nikki, 541
Hamilton, Lee, 173
Hammarskjöld, Dag, 348
Hang, Bui Thi Minh, 521
Hannity, Sean, 420
Haroun, Mohammed, 137–138
Harris, Marshall, 60–61, 131–132, 516
Hart Senate Office Building, 150–151, 166
Hartigan’s, Dublin, 6, 9–10, 11, 13, 25, 29, 31, 53, 181, 192–194, 414
Hartnett, Eilish, 12
Harvard Kennedy School, 115, 122–124, 140, 149, 150, 166, 199, 235, 335, 412, 546
Harvard Law School, 98, 103, 106, 107–109, 114–115, 145, 169, 320, 335, 343, 459, 546
Harvard University, 119, 161
Healing Back Pain (Sarno), 177
Heath, Chip and Dan, 517
Hehir, J. Bryan, 120
Hezbollah, Assad regime and, 368
Hickox, Kaci, 447–448
Hirschman, Albert, 226–227, 514
Hoffmann, Stanley, 120
Holbrooke, Richard, 91, 98–99, 103, 111, 116, 173, 188, 197, 202, 256, 287, 306, 347, 350, 438, 502
Holewinski, Sarah, 440
Holocaust, 45–46, 49, 52, 55, 109, 109n, 118–121, 119n, 128, 131, 234–235, 240–242, 244–245, 493, 494, 502–503
Holocaust Days of Remembrance (2009), 240, 243, 244–245
Homeland Security, Department of, 495, 496, 498
Honduras, US on LGBT murder victims in, 277
Hormel, James, 426
Horry, Robert, 194
Hotel Rwanda (film), 142, 161, 163
Hoza, Michael, 477, 483
Human Rights Watch, 109, 136, 412, 430, 459, 467n, 525
Hungary, 403, 409, 431–433, 432n
Hurwitz, Sara, 241
Identifiable Victim Effect, 45, 112–114, 500–501, 493–495, 497, 522
immigrants in the US. See also refugees
naturalization ceremonies, 73–74, 490–492
Power family as, 16–21, 491
serving in US government (and descendants of), 492–493
SP on highlighting impact of, 351–352
InfoWars, 434
International Atomic Energy Agency, 529
International Court of Justice, 428, 429
International Criminal Court (ICC), 225–226, 275, 291, 292n
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, 98, 103, 107, 272n, 428
International Crisis Group, 116, 135, 140, 356
International Refugee Assistance Program (IRAP), 546
International Rescue Committee, 497
Iran
human rights in, 290, 432, 529, 539–540
nuclear deal with, 299, 299n, 404, 426, 456, 529–530, 537, 550
support for Assad regime, 361, 368, 369, 370, 377, 539–540
Iraq, 50–51, 121–122, 127, 149, 173, 132–133, 218, 256–261, 408, 506n, 510, 522–524
Iraq War, 79, 132–134, 142, 146–147, 149, 153–154, 160, 165, 173, 183–184, 218, 236, 239, 243–244, 257n, 298, 306, 310, 362, 380–381, 493, 510, 549
Iraqi Kurds, 50–51, 51n, 121, 128, 133, 212
Ireland, xi–xii, 3–15, 16, 18–23, 25–27, 30–32, 35, 74, 90, 144–145, 158, 181–182, 186, 189–194, 196–197, 200, 207, 359–360, 364, 366, 491, 502
Isakson, Johnny, 330, 338
ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria), 472, 475, 491n, 497, 506, 506n, 511–512, 513, 522–523, 550
Ivory Coast, 274
Jackson Lee, Sheila, 189
James, Alexander, 454–455
Jammeh, Yahya, 399–400
janjaweed, 137–138, 140
Jarrett, Valerie, 203, 498–499
Jennings, Peter, 77–78
Jibril, Mahmoud, 298
Johnson, Carlos, 481
Johnson, Lyndon and administration, 152–153, 154, 514–515
Johnson Sir
leaf, Ellen, 452
Jones, James “Jim,” 202–203, 206, 207, 211–212, 216, 219, 224–225, 227
Jordan, 304, 466, 467, 494, 495, 516
just war theory, 120, 262
Kagame, Paul, 393
Kahneman, Daniel, 204
Karadžić, Radovan, 270
Karski, Jan, 109n
Kato, David, 276–277
Kawar, Dina, 466
Kay, Katty, 465
Keenan, Tom, 170
Kennedy, Ted, 284
Kenney, George, 60–61, 85, 128, 131–132, 516
Kerry, John
Iran nuclear deal and, 529
on Obama seeking congressional approval for Syrian strike, 376, 377
presidential bid (2004), 148
relationship with SP, 484
as Secretary of State, 281, 310n, 321, 351, 368, 373, 383, 386–388, 400–401, 413, 511, 518
Keyes, Alan, 147
Khalilzad, Zalmay, 492
Kim Jong-un, 299n, 519n, 529
King, Colleen, 355, 414
Kipling, Rudyard, 328–329
Kirchner, Cristina Fernández de, 354, 356
Kirkpatrick, Jeane, 52–53, 352, 460, 465–466
Klain, Ron, 445, 448
Koilparampil, Megan, 395–396, 423
Kony, Joseph, 275
Konyndyk, Jeremy, 450n
Krauthammer, Charles, 420–421
Kristof, Nicholas, 135, 141
Kruzel, Joseph, 93–94
Kurdi, Alan, 493–494, 495, 497, 500
Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), 236
Kuria, David, 280
Kuwait, 12–14, 17, 21, 408, 453
Lakeside High School, Atlanta, 33–37, 75–76, 330
Lange, Joep, 417
Lanzmann, Claude, 119
Laqueur, Walter, 109n
Lavrov, Sergey, 383, 387–388
Lazarus, Emma, 491
Lean In (Sandberg), 459
Lebanon, 303, 373, 492, 493, 495–496
Lee, Mike, 330
Lemkin, Raphael, 128, 131–132, 234, 235, 240
Levey, Stuart, 228n
Lewis, Anthony, 91
Lewis, Michael, 299
LGBT rights
countries criminalizing, 276, 276n
fight for UN benefits for same-sex spouses, 422–426
first Security Council gathering on threats to, 522–524
first Security Council statement condemning attacks on basis of sexual orientation, 524
ISIS persecution, 522–523
Obama support for, 276–281, 281n, 282
Obama UNGA address and, 279–280
Putin demonizing, 421–422
rainbow crosswalk to UN celebrating, 526–527
SP advocacy for, 276–281, 351, 407, 421–426, 430, 522–525, 526–527, 537
strategies for supporting, 276–278, 281–282, 281n
Liberia, 435, 436–437, 439, 440–441, 450–451, 455–456, 456n
Libya
administration debate on, 297–302, 307–308
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