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Samantha Power
Samantha Power, a lecturer at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction for her book, A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide (Basic Books, 2002) which examines U.S. foreign policy toward genocide in the 20th century. Power was the founding executive director of the Kennedy School’s Carr Center for Human Rights. Prior to that, she covered the wars in the former Yugoslavia for US News and World Report and The Economist. She is the editor, with Graham Allison, of Realizing Human Rights: Moving from Inspiration to Impact (St. Martin’s, 2000). President George W. Bush has acknowledged that sixty years of backing repressive regimes in the Middle East has not improved U.S. security and has declared the launch of an "Age of Liberty." Samantha Power will discuss the institutional, democratic, historic, and imaginative obstacles to integrating concern for human rights into U.S. foreign policy. She will explore the effects of Bush's major foreign policy initiatives on both human rights and U.S. security.
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