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A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide

Samantha Power

Why did the United States, again and again, fail to stop genocide even after the world gave the crime a name?

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Author
Samantha Power

Why read it

  • You will learn how a word for mass murder came to exist, and why naming a crime is not the same as stopping it
  • You will see that when American leadership was finally used, as in Bosnia, it could bring a savage war to an end
  • You will judge how plain the warning signs were before the killing began, as in the Armenian case

Who it is for

  • Student of international relations studying why intervention fails
  • Reader following news of mass atrocities who asks why nobody acted
  • Voter wanting to judge how a government responds to crises

Contents

  1. Chapter 1
  2. Chapter 2
  3. Chapter 3
  4. Chapter 4
  5. Chapter 5
  6. Chapter 6
  7. Chapter 7
  8. Chapter 8
  9. Chapter 9
  10. Chapter 10
  11. Chapter 11
  12. Chapter 12
  13. Chapter 13
  14. Chapter 14

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