Jonathan Power

Jonathan Power is a renowned journalist, filmmaker, and broadcaster, best known for his weekly column and commentary on foreign affairs that appeared in the International Herald Tribune (now The New York Times) for 17 years. Power has probably been published on the opinion pages of the principal US newspapers more than any other European. With a global following, his column is syndicated to newspapers worldwide. He is also the author of eight books on foreign affairs, including “Like Water on Stone: The Story of Amnesty International”, published by Penguin. Prior to earning his Master’s degree at the University of Wisconsin, Power worked in Tanzania, where he provided advice to peasant farmers while living in a local village. He later joined the staff of Martin Luther King, living in the West Side ghetto, working with Jesse Jackson in the “End the Slums” campaign in Chicago. Notably, Power was the first journalist to report at length in English on the trafficking of African migrants across the Sahara and into France.

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Dr. Hans Blix, schwedischer Diplomat und Politiker der Liberalen Volkspartei, würdigte den ibidem-Autor Jonathan Power mit einer euphorischen Rezension seiner Memoiren When are you going to get a proper job? Sixty years in journalism, die kürzlich hier bei uns erschienen sind.

Blix war von 1978 bis 1979 schwedischer Außenminister und leitete später die Internationale Atomenergie-Organisation (IAEO), deren emeritierter Generaldirektor er heute ist. Von 2000 bis Juni 2003 leitete er außerdem die Überwachungs-, Verifikations- und Inspektionskommission der Vereinten Nationen. Im Februar 2010 gab die Regierung der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate bekannt, dass Dr. Blix den Vorsitz eines Beirats für ihr Atomkraftprogramm übernehmen werde.

In seiner umfassenden Besprechung von Powers Buch findet Blix bewegende Worte zum Buch sowie über Power als Autor und Journalist:
"Journalists like Jonathan Power are of immense value in our complicated world. With great global expertise and the ambition that through interviews, books, and travels, they give us images of both the hopeful and frightening reality and ideas about how progress can be made and violence avoided."