"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide
2003
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Dec 2, 2008 · Chasing the Flame is Powers’ biography of Sergio de Mello, who was the UN’s leading diplomat for protection of refugees and civilians. He served the UN High Commissioner for Refugees for his first 25 years at the UN, and then served UN Secretary-General, Kofi Anan, often as his special representative.
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"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide (2002) is a book by American Samantha Power, at that time Professor of Human Rights Practice at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, which explores the United States's understanding of, response to, and inaction on genocides in the 20th century, from the Armenian genocide to the "ethnic cleansings" of the Kosovo War.
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May 14, 2013 · From former UN Ambassador and author of the New York Times bestseller The Education of an Idealist Samantha Power, the Pulitzer Prize-winning book on America's repeated failure to stop genocides around the world In her prizewinning examination of the last century of American history, Samantha Power asks the haunting question: Why do American leaders who vow "never again" repeatedly fail to ...
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Mar 15, 2002 · Samantha Power's 'A Problem from Hell' is a broad attempt to document the major acts of genocide/human rights violations of the 20th century paired with the international community's subsequent negligence in each case. She reports on the Holocaust, the Armenian genocide, and especially her major areas of research- Rwanda and Serbia.
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Jan 26, 2021 · Power transports us from her childhood in Dublin to the streets of war-torn Bosnia to the White House Situation Room and the world of high-stakes diplomacy, offering a compelling and deeply honest look at navigating the halls of power while trying to put one’s ideals into practice. Along the way, she lays bare the searing battles and defining ...
Samantha Power is a Pulitzer Prize-winner, and it shows. She has written a very personal book. To define it as honest, open or candid, would fall short of doing justice to the frankness and depth with which she tackles her life, principles, dreams, aspirations, realizations, successes and failures.
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Samantha Power, the Anna Lindh Professor of the Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and the William D. Zabel Professor of Practice in Human Rights at Harvard Law School, served as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations from 2013 to 2017 and was previously Special Assistant to President Barack Obama and the Senior Director for Multilateral Affairs ...
