Iran nuclear deal and, 530
on military action after chemical weapons attack in Syria, 368–369, 375–376, 380, 381
on military action in Libya, 302
Obama on War Powers Resolution and, 375
oversight role when Obama in Senate, 149, 153, 165
Senator Obama’s work with, 152, 162
SP domestic engagements with, 535
SP’s confirmation for UN post and, 329–332, 338–340
stance on confirmation of James Hormel, 426
Syrian refugees and, 495, 497, 499
work on #FreeThe20 and, 520
Republika Srpska, 55, 79–80
Rhetoric of Reaction (Hirschman), 226–227
Rhodes, Ben
on Arab Spring, 290
Armenian genocide recognition and, 237–238
Cairo speech and, 249
as Obama campaign foreign policy speechwriter, 172–173
Obama’s Nobel address and, 261–262, 263
on Obama’s response to SP’s Ukraine speeches, 421
on SP’s Burma trip, 317
on support for Yazidis, 511
UNGA address (2011) including LGBT rights and, 279–280
White House letter to Congress on Syria’s chemical weapons use and, 362–364
Rice, Condoleezza, 153, 235
Rice, Susan
Churkin’s relationship with, 384, 405
Ebola epidemic and, 435–437
on Obama seeking congressional approval for Syrian strike, 374, 377
preventing atrocities in South Sudan and, 273–274
responding to Libya crisis and, 298, 302–305
on SP and Russia’s UN representative, 383
on SP statements on Ukraine, 410, 413
on SP traveling to Ebola-affected West African countries, 448
SP’s Rose Garden ceremony and, 326
SP’s work and relationship with, 205–206, 223, 225, 278, 279, 291, 302, 320, 342, 383, 384
UN inspection mission in Syria and, 373
UN Security Council resolution imposing arms embargo and sanctions against Libya and, 291
UN Security Council resolution 1973 (authorizing “all necessary measures” in Libya) and, 302–304
US efforts against Boko Haram and, 488
US response to Syrian chemical weapons attack and, 360, 371
Rochdi, Najat, 477–478, 480, 481, 482, 483
Rodríguez, Bruno, 356–357
Rohde, David
abduction of, 111–113
attendance at Security Council Srebrenica session and, 430
op-ed by SP about, 112–113, 522
release and return to US, 113–114
reporting on evidence of alleged executions in Srebrenica, 101–102, 109
return to Srebrenica with SP for massacre anniversary and, 269
Rohingya, in Burma, 315–317, 316n
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 157
Roosevelt, Franklin D. and administration, 46, 119, 354, 449
Rosen, James, 366
Rosenfeld, Steve, 87–88, 111, 112
Ross, Dennis, 284–286, 287–288
Rouse, Pete, 154, 321
Rousseff, Dilma, 281
Rubin, Elizabeth, 95, 111, 122, 124–125
Rubin, Jennifer, 504
Rubio, Marco, 339–340
Rudman, Mara, 215
Rumors (Sunstein), 231
Rusesabagina, Paul, 142, 163
Russia. See also Churkin, Vitaly; Lavrov, Sergey; Medvedev, Dmitry; Putin, Vladimir
actions taken against Qaddafi by, 291–292, 303, 304
bombing of Chechnya, 103–105, 539
early cooperation with Obama administration of, 249, 404
interests in Syria of, 377–378, 389
interference in US elections (2016) and, 538–539
invasion of Ukraine, 403, 408, 409–415, 416–417, 417n, 427–428
losing election to Human Rights Council, 431–433, 432n
military intervention in Syria by, 502, 503, 510–511, 539–540
Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 destruction and, 417–419, 418n
policies on LGBT rights, 421, 422, 424, 425n, 430, 522–523, 524–525
response to chemical weapons attacks in Syria, x, 361, 369, 372, 377–378, 382–385, 387, 388, 389
Security Council resolution on Srebrenica genocide and, 428–431
as Security Council veto-holder, 303, 347, 353, 365, 367, 367n, 370, 404, 408, 429–430
similarities with Soviet tactics, 403–404, 409–410, 412, 415, 418–419, 540
support for Bosnian Serb militants from, 270, 428–430
Rwanda
genocide in, 118, 120–121, 122, 127, 131, 142, 226, 274, 339–340, 353, 363, 379
peacekeeping troops to CAR from, 393
Sacirbey, Muhamed, 100, 102
Saddam Hussein, 50–51, 51n, 121, 128, 132–134, 362, 409
Safire, William, 91
Saleh, Raed, 502–503
Sandberg, Sheryl, 459
Sarajevo, 55–57, 60, 63, 67, 68–69, 77, 81, 85–86, 88–97, 99–100, 101n, 103, 104, 106–108, 110, 116, 269–270, 361, 404–405, 504–505. See also Bosnia; Bosnian war
sarin, 362, 372–373, 379, 389. See also chemical weapons
Sarno, John, 177
“Save Darfur” activism, 140–143, 161–165, 228–229
Sayoc, Cesar, 547
Schindler’s List (film), 118–119
Schrenell, Hillary, 335–336, 339, 343, 349, 422–423, 449, 459
Schroeder, Pat, 131
Schumann, John “Schu,” 44–48, 52, 54, 59, 116, 119, 136
Schwartz, Eric, 261
Seif, Sanaa, 521
Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 128, 153, 328, 331–332, 337, 338–339, 386
Sequoia, Tree, 524–525
Shah, Raj, 446, 448
Shalgham, Abdurrahman Mohamed, 291, 307
Sharpton, Al, 163
Sherwood-Randall, Liz, 252
Shipman, Claire, 465
Shoah (Lanzmann documentary), 119
Shocked, Michelle, 97
Sibley Memorial Hospital, 246, 292
Sierra Leone, 435, 436–437, 439, 443, 447, 451, 455–456, 456n
Sison, Michele, 351n, 423
60 Minutes, 140, 183
Slovenia, 54n, 55, 62, 65
Smith, Gayle, 251–252, 273, 284–288, 326, 436
Smith, Sean, 310–311
Somalia, 50, 78, 120, 136, 276n, 491n
Soros, George,
attacks against, 432n
foundation of, 56, 57, 68–69, 103–105
South Sudan. See also Sudan
civil war and mass atrocities (2013) in, 282
quest for independence, 273–274
Spencer, Craig, 447
Spielberg, Steven, 118, 161–162
sports. See also baseball; basketball; squash; tennis
Churkin and SP on, 407
Irish nationalism and, 18
SP journalism and, 40, 51, 64
throughout life, SP playing, 20, 27, 35, 37, 39, 40, 43, 44, 47, 115, 159, 254, 330, 468, 474
as UN ambassador, SP playing and following, 407, 468–469
with Cass, SP playing and following, 169, 170–171, 196, 197
with Declan and Rían, SP playing and following, 458, 459–460, 474–476, 532, 545
with Irish family, SP playing and following, 8–9, 10, 21, 22–23, 32
with Obama, SP discussing, 145, 165, 194, 230
Sports Spotlight (radio talk show), 40
Spotlight Effect, 193
Squash, 5, 7, 43, 47, 158, 169, 196, 545
Srebrenica
impact of massacre on US policy, 106, 114
Mladić assault on UN safe area of, 99–102, 109–110, 274
pursuit and arrest of fugitives implicated in, 270–273
Putin opposition to commemoration of genocide in, 428
Rohde reporting on evidence of alleged exec
utions in, 101–102, 109, 113–114
Security Council resolution on genocide in, 428–431
Senator Obama asking about massacre in, 146
SP and massacre anniversaries in, 269–270
SP processing of, 109–111, 109n, 114–116
SP trying to promote awareness of, 99–100, 110–111, 115–116
Stalin, Joseph, 349
Stamkoski, George, 62–63, 65, 66, 67–68
Stargell, Willie “Pops,” 22
State Department, 58, 60–61, 87, 112, 118, 127, 128, 216, 217, 229, 235, 239, 270, 273, 275, 281, 331, 345, 397, 426, 431, 487, 492–493, 516, 519, 549–550. See also Christopher, Warren, as Secretary of State; Clinton, Hillary; Kerry, John; Rice, Condoleezza
Steinberg, Jim, 228n
Steinberg, Nik, 412–414, 446, 503
Steinem, Gloria, 533, 534
Stevens, Chris, 308–309, 310–311, 477
Stevenson, Adlai, 409, 460
Stone Mountain, Georgia, 36–37
Stonewall Inn, 524–525, 526
Sudan. See also South Sudan
allegations of mass rape by government soldiers in Tabit, Darfur, 467, 467n
genocide in Darfur by government of, 135, 137–140, 142–143, 221, 225–226
Southern, and atrocity prevention, 273–274
SP and Prendergast investigation in, 137–140
Sullivan, Jake, 294
Sullivan, Stacy, 81, 95, 97
Sunstein, Cass
acclimation to SP as ambassador and, 343–345
on confirmation bias, 507–508
dating SP, 176–179, 195–196
election results (2016) and, 534–535
errant email of, 169, 170
hospitalized, 543–545
domestic tasks and, 335–336
Iowa caucus and, 174, 176–177, 179–180
marriage proposal of, 195–196
mock confirmation hearings for SP and, 331–334
“monster” controversy and, 186–187, 188, 189, 190, 191–192, 193, 195
Obama administration and, 201, 204, 208, 214, 230–233, 254–255, 320
Obama on messiness of, 178–179, 322
Obama’s election victory and, 200–201, 204, 207–208
SP on Armenian Remembrance Day and, 245
on “Spotlight Effect,” 193
SP swearing in as US Ambassador to the UN and, 341–342
SP travel to Cameroon, Chad, and Nigeria and, 475, 481–482
on SP traveling to Ebola-affected West African countries, 446, 448
SP’s confirmation hearings and, 334, 337–338, 339
SP’s last day at UN and, 542
SP’s pregnancies and, 199, 205, 292–293, 312–313
on SP’s trip to Iraq, 257–258, 260
teaching at Harvard Law, 320, 343, 459, 546
wedding of, 196–197
Sunstein, Dick, 327
Sunstein, Ellyn Kail, 177, 197
Suu Kyi, Aung San, 313–317, 318–320
Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard (Heath and Heath), 517
Syria. See also al-Assad, Bashar
calls for SP’s resignation over US policy on, 503–506, 514–516
Cesar photos from prisons in, 505
chemical weapons used by, ix–x, 359–360, 361, 362–364, 362n, 369–371, 372–373, 378–379, 388–390, 509
economic sanctions and restrictions, Syria’s use of chemical weapons and, 369–370
Libya compared with, 307–308, 368, 374–375, 378, 507
Obama considerations regarding use of force, 365–371, 374–377, 506–511, 512–514
refugees from, 494–495, 496–500, 497n, 513
Russian and government siege of Aleppo, 539–540
Saleh on Russian and government air strikes in, 502–503
SP considerations regarding use of force, 369–371, 380–382, 389–390, 506–514
UN inspection mission in, 367, 372–373
UN Security Council blocked on, 367, 377–378
UN Security Council’s resolution on chemical weapons destruction in, 387–389
White Helmets in, 502–503
Tadić, Boris, 270, 272
Talbott, Strobe, 87, 111, 112, 204
Tan, Ta Phong, 520–521
Tangara, Mamadou, 399–400
Tank Man, in Tiananmen Square, 41, 42, 45, 52
Taylor, Nathan, 37
Al-Teibawi, Morad and Ola, 499–500
Tennis 5, 8, 16, 20, 70, 328
Tent Partnership for Refugees, 499, 546–547
Terbil, Fathi, 289
Tewes, Paul, 175
Therapy, 31, 125–127, 158, 160–161, 167, 177, 232
Thomas, Stanton, 344
Thomas-Jensen, Colin, 471, 473–474, 478–479, 481, 485
Thomson, Elliot, 177, 459
Thomson, James C., 514–515
Tiananmen Square demonstrations, 41, 42, 46
Tito, Josip Broz, 47, 54
Tohti, Ilham, 519
Toíbín, Colm, 18
Torsella, Joe, 351n
Treblinka death camp, Poland, 119
Troubles, the (1968–1998), 90, 491
Trudeau, Justin, 498
Trump, Donald and administration, xi, 419, 434–435, 491, 496, 497, 497n, 513, 530, 531n, 532, 533, 534–535, 535n, 536, 537–539, 540, 542, 545, 546, 547–548, 549, 551
Tunisia, 287, 288–289, 290, 299, 551
Turkey
Armenian genocide and, 233, 234–236, 237–239, 240, 242–244, 243n
Syria and, 368, 494, 495
Tversky, Amos, 427
Twain, Mark, 78
Uganda, 274–277
Uighur, 519
Ukraine
Churkin meeting with SP on, 426–428
Russia’s invasion of, 403, 408, 409–415, 416–417, 417n, 427–428,
SP meets with young reformers and displaced people in, 412
SP’s responses to Churkin on, 410–411, 420–421, 427–428
Yanukovych and unrest in, 408, 410
Ulukaya, Hamdi, 499, 546–547
UNICEF, 136, 347
United Arab Emirates (UAE), 304, 368
United Kingdom, 4, 6, 90, 182, 303, 303n, 304, 353, 362n, 371, 376, 376n, 428, 443, 453, 466n, 491
United Nations. See also United Nations General Assembly; United Nations Security Council
Cuny on effectiveness of, 57–58
founding conference of, 327
general contributions and mission of, 346–348
Human Rights Council, 221–222, 222n, 277, 431–433
LGBT staff benefits at, 422–426
member states in, 346–348, 346n
Obama’s nomination of SP for ambassadorship to, 323–327
Press Office, SP’s Bosnia press credentials for, 64–65
SP’s courtesy calls to ambassadors at, 394–402
SP’s guided tour of, 43
woman as secretary-general of, 466
United Nations Charter, 289, 346, 348, 349, 368, 394, 529n
United Nations General Assembly
condemnation of Iran’s human rights abuses and, 530
Libya expelled from Human Rights Council by, 291
Obama becomes first leader to invoke gay rights in, 279–280
Obama’s final visit to, 525–526
Obama hosts historic refugee summit during, 498–499
passage of resolution on illegality of Crimean referendum by, 415–417, 417n
Russian-orchestrated vote to strip LGBT people of UN benefits in, 422–426
SP on Syria’s use of chemical weapons in, 379
UN Secretary General hosts high-level humanitarian event for those affected by Boko Haram during, 486
US negotiations in, 356
United Nations Genocide Convention, 119n, 128
United Nations Secretary General. See also Ban Ki-moon
election of (2016), 466
functions of, 349, 468
United
Nations Security Council
authorization of use of force in Libya and, 297–298, 301–304, 307
Bosnian arms embargo and, 78–79
composition, functions, and history of, 346n, 353–356, 466–467, 468–469
Ebola epidemic and, 438–443
female ambassadors serving on, 466–467, 468–469
first ever condemnation of attack based on sexual orientation by, 524
imposition of Libyan arms embargo and economic sanctions by, 291
Iran nuclear deal enshrined in international law in, 529–530
Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 attack and, 417–418
negotiation and passage of resolution to strip Syria -of chemical weapons program, 384–386, 387–389
on North Korea’s brutal treatment of its people, 528–529
on North Korea’s nuclear proliferation, 528–529
powers and proceedings of, 78, 303n, 353–356, 354n, 367n, 403, 523, 529, 550
SP on Syria’s and Russia’s siege of Aleppo in, 539–541
Srebrenica genocide resolution and, 428–431
Ukraine and, 403–404, 408–411, 412, 413–414, 417–418, 420–421, 426
veto power in, 303, 354, 347, 353, 354, 365, 367, 367n, 370, 404, 408, 429–430, 529
United States Mission to the United Nations, 58, 206, 345–346, 349–351, 351n, 356, 391, 423, 468, 520, 521, 531, 536–538, 541
US Digital Service, 498
US Holocaust Memorial Museum, 140–141, 394
U.S. News & World Report, 63–64, 70–71, 320
US Sportsmen’s Alliance, 231
USAID, 218, 275, 421, 437, 446, 448, 450n, 476
Vieira de Mello, Sergio, 160–161, 166, 171, 181, 257
Vietor, Tommy, 331–332, 334
Vinson, Amber, 444
Volesky, Gary, 450
Waldorf Astoria Towers
adapting apartment and including family in events at, 459–462
election night party (2016), 532–534
as official residence of Ambassador to the UN, 342–345
Wałęsa, Lech, 46
Walker, Stephen, 60–61, 131–132, 516
Wang Yu, 519, 520
War Crimes Rewards Program, 270, 275
war criminals, US government pursuit of, 270–272, 275–276
War Powers Resolution (1973), 374–375
Washington Nationals, 321, 343, 458, 464, 474, 475
Washington Post, 56, 87–88, 99–100, 112, 114, 162, 224, 228–229, 253, 329, 357, 382
weapons of mass destruction, 132–133, 362, 370, 409, 528–529
Weber, Andrew, 450n
Wednesday Group, 251–254, 293, 464
Weekly Standard, 188
Weinberger, Miro, 42–43, 115–116, 125
Weinstein, Jeremy, 285, 286, 287–288, 336–337, 349, 350, 356
West Wing of the White House, 211–212, 214, 218, 218n, 224, 253
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