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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Author
Ted Piccone
Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Latin America Initiative, Project on International Order and Strategy
Charles W. Robinson Chair
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Mar
13
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Putin’s world
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Washington, DC
Rather than serving as a unifying diplomatic exercise to highlight Iran’s troubling regional activities, the [Warsaw] summit primarily highlighted America’s diplomatic isolation from its European allies.