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Samantha Power

Samantha Power

Author & policymaker · United States

Government-funded research

Author of the Pulitzer-winning 'A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide,' which shaped public discourse on US responses to genocide.

Funding & financing

Academic (Harvard) and government salary.

Affiliations

Explicit political affiliation: served in Democratic administrations as US Ambassador to the UN (Obama) and USAID Administrator (Biden). Her perspective is that of a US foreign-policy practitioner.

Disclosures & conflicts

Served as US Ambassador to the UN (Obama administration) and USAID Administrator (Biden administration). Her writing and policy roles reflect Democratic foreign-policy perspectives; she is not a neutral adjudicator of genocide claims.

Credibility & caveats

Influential and widely read, but she writes as an advocate and US policymaker, not a neutral data source — useful for analysis and history, with her policy standpoint kept in mind.

Cases in this record

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Sources & disclosures