An interview with Samantha Power: «Lasting peace requires international engagement»
Samantha Power, 55, was a key figure in the Obama administration. She served on the National Security Council from 2009 to 2013 and was then ambassador to the United Nations from 2013 to 2017. Joe Biden also gave her a significant post: director of USAID, the United States Agency for International Development. She remained there from 2021 until 20 January 2025 — the first day of Donald Trump’s presidency, when he immediately abolished the agency by executive order. We met Power at the Milan Triennale, where she took part in the “Tech Emotion” event, organized by “Emotion Network.” The theme: “Agility, surfing the unknown.”
Let’s begin with what is perhaps the most urgent question. Will Trump reach a deal with Iran capable of stabilizing the Middle East? Or will it be a precarious compromise?
«Well, first, negotiating a highly complicated nuclear and broader regional stability deal isn’t something you do on a whim, and it isn’t something that you do without experts at the table. And the approach of the Trump administration has, by and large, been to parachute some very senior officials. You know, in the Obama administration, you never
