![]() ![]() Prominent among those who made a difference are Raphael Lemkin, a Polish Jew who invented the word genocideĪnd who lobbied the U.N. But Power also sees signs that the fight against genocide has made progress. In the face of firsthand accounts of genocide, invocations of geopolitical considerations and studied and repeated refusals to accept the reality of genocidal campaigns simply fail to convince, she insists. must reevaluate the principles it applies to foreign policy choices. ![]() politics-what she casts as the State Department's unwritten rule that nonaction is better than action with a PR backlash the Pentagon's unwillingness to see a moral imperative an isolationist right a suspicious left and a population unconcerned with distant nations-aims to show how ingrained inertia is, even as she argues that the U.S. The emotional force of Power's argument is carried by moving, sometimes almost unbearable stories of the victims and survivors of such brutality. intervention has been shamefully inadequate. In clean, unadorned prose, Power revisits the Turkish genocide directed at Armenians in 1915–1916, the Holocaust, Cambodia's Khmer Rouge, Iraqi attacks on Kurdish populations, Rwanda, and Bosnian "ethnic cleansing," and in doing so, argues that U.S. News and World ReportĪnd now the executive director of Harvard's Carr Center for Human Rights, offers an uncompromising and disturbing examination of 20th-century acts of genocide and U.S responses to them. ![]()
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