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Swedish Diplomat Hans Blix honors author Jonathan Power with review

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Dr Hans Blix, a Swedish diplomat and politician for the Liberal People’s Party, has honored -author Jonathan Power with a euphoric review of his memoirs When are you going to get a proper job? Sixty Years in Journalism, recently published here at .

Blix was Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1978 to 1979 and later served as head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), of which he is now Director-General Emeritus. He was also the head of the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (from 2000 until June 2003). In February 2010, the Government of the United Arab Emirates announced that Dr Blix would head an advisory board for its nuclear power program.

In his comprehensive review of Power's book, he finds some moving words about the book and Power as an author and 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."

read more: Blix's review on WORLD VIEW

  • 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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