<b>Former UN Ambassador Samantha Power's Pulitzer Prize-winning analysis of America's repeated failure to stop genocides around the world</b> In her Pulitzer Prize-winning 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 stop genocide? Power, a professor at the Harvard Kennedy School and the former US Ambassador to the United Nations, draws upon exclusive interviews with Washington's top policymakers, thousands of declassified documents, and her own reporting from modern killing fields to provide the answer. <i>"A Problem from Hell"</i> shows how decent Americans inside and outside government refused to get involved despite chilling warnings and tells the stories of the courageous Americans who risked their careers and lives in an effort to get the United States to act. A modern classic, <i>"A Problem from Hell"</i> has forever reshaped debates about American foreign policy.
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Deze auteur, een journalist en academicus, staat bekend om haar scherpe analyse van internationale aangelegenheden en mensenrechten. Haar schrijven wordt gekenmerkt door een diepgaande analytische aanpak, waarbij academisch onderzoek vakkundig wordt verbonden met urgente mondiale uitdagingen. Lezers zullen haar vermogen waarderen om complexe politieke en historische gebeurtenissen met duidelijkheid en boeiende verhalende kracht weer te geven. Haar werk biedt diepgaande inzichten in de kritieke kwesties van onze tijd en stimuleert tot nadenken over de mogelijkheden van menselijke vooruitgang.
Chasing the Flame
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Sergio Vieira de Mello - a humanitarian, peacemaker and state builder - was at centre of the most significant geopolitical crises. This title tells the story of the man who never stopped learning and of a perilous world whose ills are too big to ignore but too complex to manage quickly or cheaply.
The Education of an Idealist
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In her characteristically gripping prose, Pulitzer Prize-winner Power illuminates the messy and complex worlds of politics and geopolitics while laying bare the searing battles and defining moments of her life.
An intimate and powerful memoir by Pulitzer Prize–winner and former U.N. Ambassador Samantha Power.
Hannah Arendt's definitive work on totalitarianism and an essential component of any study of twentieth-century political history The Origins of Totalitarianism begins with the rise of anti-Semitism in central and western Europe in the 1800s and continues with an examination of European colonial imperialism from 1884 to the outbreak of World War I. Arendt explores the institutions and operations of totalitarian movements, focusing on the two genuine forms of totalitarian government in our time—Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia—which she adroitly recognizes were two sides of the same coin, rather than opposing philosophies of Right and Left. From this vantage point, she discusses the evolution of classes into masses, the role of propaganda in dealing with the nontotalitarian world, the use of terror, and the nature of isolation and loneliness as preconditions for total domination.