"A Problem from Hell" by Samantha Power
In 1993, as a 23-year-old correspondent covering the wars in the Balkans, I was initially comforted by the roar of NATO planes flying overhead. President Clinton and other western leaders had sent the planes to monitor the Bosnian war, which had killed almost 200,000 civilians. But it soon became clear that NATO was unwilling to target those engaged in brutal ethnic cleansing. American statesmen described Bosnia as a problem from hell, and for three and a half years refused to invest the diplomatic and military capital needed to stop the murder of innocents. In Rwanda, around the same time, some 800,000 Tutsi and opposition Hutu were exterminated in the swiftest killing spree of the twentieth century. Again, the United States failed to intervene. This time U.S. policy-makers avoided labeling events genocide and spearheaded the withdrawal of UN peacekeepers stationed in Rwanda who might have stopped the massacres underway. Whatever America's commitment to Holocaust remembrance (embodied in the presence of the Holocaust Museum on the Mall in Washington, D.C.), the United States has never intervened to stop genocide. This book is an effort to understand why. While the history of America's response to genocide is not an uplifting one, A Problem from Hell tells the stories of countless Americans who took seriously the slogan of never again and tried to secure American intervention. Only by understanding the reasons for their small successes and colossal failures can we understand what we as a country, and we as citizens, could have done to stop the most savage crimes of the last century.Samantha Power, the Harvard Kennedy School's Anna Lindh Professor of Global Leadership and Public Affairs and the William D. He is the Zabel Professor of Practice in Human Rights at Harvard Law School, and he formerly served as the United States Attorney General. From 2013 to 2017, he served as the United States' ambassador to the United Nations, having previously served as President Barack Obama's Special Assistant and the National Security Council's Senior Director for International Affairs and Human Rights. She is the co-editor of The Unquiet American: Richard Holbrooke in the World and the founding executive director of the Harvard Kennedy School's Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. She is also the author of the New York Times bestseller memoir The Education of an Idealist and Sergio: One Man's Struggle to Save the World. Power is a former Balkan war correspondent who has won multiple awards, including the National Magazine Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Time magazine called her one of the 100 most influential people in the world, while Forbes named her one of the 100 most powerful women in the world.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780060541644 |
| ISBN 10 | 0060541644 |
| Title | "A Problem from Hell" |
| Author | Samantha Power |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers Inc |
| Year published | 2003-05-06 |
| Number of pages | 620 |
| Prizes | Winner of Robert F. Kennedy Book Award (Grand Prize) 2003 |
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