Samantha Power Bücher

Reveals Sergio Vieira de Mello's powerful legacy of humanity and ideological strength in the context of his troubleshooting attempts in Lebanon in the aftermath of Israel's 1982 invasion; in his taming of the Khmer Rouge and his repatriation of four-hundred-thousand Cambodian refugees in the early nineties; in his efforts to negotiate an end to the slaughter in Bosnia; in his struggle to nation-build in war-torn societies during his quasi-colonial governorships of Kosovo and East Timor; and through his tragic final posting as the UN representative in Baghdad, where he became the victim of the country's first-ever suicide bomb

"An angry, brilliant, fiercely useful, absolutely essential book." --The New Republic From the Armenian Genocide to the ethnic cleansings of Kosovo and Darfur, modern history is haunted by acts of brutal violence. Yet American leaders who vow "never again" repeatedly fail to stop genocide. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, "A Problem from Hell" draws upon exclusive interviews with Washington's top policymakers, thousands of once classified documents, and accounts of reporting from the killing fields to show how decent Americans inside and outside government looked away from mass murder. Combining spellbinding history and seasoned political analysis, "A Problem from Hell" allows readers to hear directly from American decision-makers and dissenters, as well as from victims of genocide, and reveals just what was known and what might have been done while millions perished.

'Her highly personal and reflective memoir ... is a must-read for anyone who cares about our role in a changing world' Barack Obama THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR A TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR

Unter dem Eindruck des Holocaust, der nationalsozialistischen Vernichtung des europäischen Judentums, hat Hannah Arendt mit 'Elemente und Ursprünge totaler Herrschaft' - zuerst 1951 in New York erschienen, in deutscher Übersetzung 1955 - zugleich eine Geschichte und eine Theorie des Totalitarismus geschrieben. Hier hat sie »die allgemein gültige Vorstellung vom monolithischen Charakter des Dritten Reiches erschüttert und auf die eigentümliche Strukturlosigkeit totaler Regierungen hingewiesen. Hannah Arendt analysiert den Nationalsozialismus und den Stalinismus als verwandte Herrschaftstypen und als Folgeerscheinungen von Antisemitismus und Imperialismus.« (Deutschlandfunk)