Diese Autorin, Journalistin und Akademikerin ist bekannt für ihre scharfsinnige Auseinandersetzung mit internationalen Angelegenheiten und Menschenrechten. Ihre Arbeit zeichnet sich durch einen tiefen analytischen Ansatz aus, der akademische Forschung geschickt mit dringenden globalen Herausforderungen verbindet. Leser werden ihre Fähigkeit schätzen, komplexe politische und historische Ereignisse klar und fesselnd darzustellen. Ihre Schriften bieten tiefe Einblicke in die kritischen Themen unserer Zeit und regen zum Nachdenken über die Möglichkeiten menschlichen Fortschritts an.
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.
Discusses America's political stance during the holocausts of the past fifty years, presenting moral arguments for why the United States should change its non-engagement policies to become involved in conflicts involving genocide. 30,000 first printing.
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.
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)
Pulitzer Prize winner Samantha Power, widely known as a relentless advocate for promoting human rights, has been heralded by President Barack Obama as one of America's "foremost thinkers on foreign policy." In her memoir, Power offers an urgent response to the question "What can one person do?"—and a call for a clearer eye, a kinder heart, and a more open and civil hand in our politics and daily lives. <em>The Education of an Idealist </em>traces Power’s distinctly American journey from immigrant to war correspondent to presidential Cabinet official. In 2005, her critiques of US foreign policy caught the eye of newly elected senator Barack Obama, who invited her to work with him on Capitol Hill and then on his presidential campaign. After Obama was elected president, Power went from being an activist outsider to a government insider, navigating the halls of power while trying to put her ideals into practice. She served for four years as Obama’s human rights adviser, and in 2013, he named her US Ambassador to the United Nations, the youngest American to assume the role. A Pulitzer Prize–winning writer, Power transports us from her childhood in Dublin to the streets of war-torn Bosnia to the White House Situation Room and the world of high-stakes diplomacy. <em>The Education of an</em> <em>Idealist </em>lays bare the battles and defining moments of her life and shows how she juggled the demands of a 24/7 national security job with the challenge of raising two young children. Along the way, she illuminates the intricacies of politics and geopolitics, reminding us how the United States can lead in the world, and why we each have the opportunity to advance the cause of human dignity.