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Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.

Samantha Power

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Samantha Power
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: September 21
Diplomat
Director For Multilateral Affairs
Human Rights Activist
Journalist
Pedagogue
Writer
London
England
Samantha Jane Power
Samantha J. Power
Amoral
Explicitly
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Foreign
Policy

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