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A PROBLEM FROM HELL

America and the Age of Genocide

Book • 2013

In this Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Samantha Power analyzes the United States' understanding of, response to, and inaction on genocides from the Armenian genocide to the 'ethnic cleansings' of the Kosovo War. She draws on exclusive interviews with policymakers, declassified documents, and her own reporting from modern killing fields.

The book highlights the reluctance of American policymakers to condemn mass atrocities as genocide and their justifications for inaction, often based on national interests or the belief that intervention would be futile or counterproductive.

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as a book written by

Samantha Power

about America and the age of genocide.

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