Senior Fellow Ted Piccone analyzes Trump’s speech to the United Nations and discusses how his emphasis on sovereignty could be used by some governments as a shield to avoid being prosecuted for human rights abuses internationally.
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Authors
Ted Piccone
Nonresident Senior Fellow
- Foreign Policy, Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology
@piccone_ted
Commentary
PodcastIn UN speech, Trump’s ‘America First’ hurts global human rights
Ted Piccone
Ted Piccone
Nonresident Senior Fellow
- Foreign Policy, Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology
@piccone_ted
September 26, 2018