Harvard Kennedy School faculty disseminate their research in working publications and papers that contribute to public knowledge and fuel policy innovation. This list features recent faculty publications, including journal articles, books, edited volumes, research papers, and public testimony.
Faculty Publications
Power, Samantha. "How Democracy Can Win: The Right Way to Counter Autocracy." Foreign Affairs 102.2 (March/April 2023): 22-37.
Power, Samantha, Nepomuk Dunz, and Olga Gavryliuk. "An Overview of Nature-Related Risks and Potential Policy Actions for Ministries of Finance: Bending The Curve of Nature Loss." The Coalition of Finance Ministers for Climate Action, June 2022.
Power, Samantha. "The Can-Do Power: America’s Advantage and Biden’s Chance." Foreign Affairs. January/February 2021, 10-24.
Power, Samantha. "La ventaja de Estados Unidos y la oportunidad de Biden: el poder de la capacidad de hacer." Foreign affairs: Latinoamérica 21.1 (January 2021): 2-15.
Power, Samantha. "Afterword." Imagine: Reflections on Peace. Ed. VII Foundation. SparkPress, 2020.
Power, Samantha. "Two Things Facebook Still Needs to do to Reduce the Spread of Misinformation." Washington Post, October 23, 2020.
Power, Samantha. Review of Those Who Forget: My Family’s Story in Nazi Europe – A Memoir, A History, A Warning, by Géraldine Schwarz. Washington Post, October 16, 2020.
Power, Samantha. "The Incredible Influence of James A. Baker III." Review of The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III, by Peter Baker and Susan Glasser. New York Times, September 25, 2020.
Power, Samantha. "The 100 Most Influential People of 2020: Abubacarr Tambadou." Time. September 22, 2020.
Power, Samantha. "'Find the People Who Actually Want to Do Things.' Samantha Power Remembers the Wise Words of Jean Kennedy Smith." Time, June 25, 2020.
Power, Samantha. "How the COVID-19 Era Will Change National Security Forever." TIME. April 14, 2020.
Power, Samantha. "This Won't End for Anyone Until it Ends for Everyone." New York Times, April 7, 2020.
Power, Samantha. "The Courage and Compassion of Catholic Activist Dorothy Day." Washington Post. March 6, 2020.
Power, Samantha. "A Belated Recognition of Genocide by the House." New York Times. October 29, 2019.
Power, Samantha. "Small Moves Can Still Change Lives: How 16 Women Political Prisoners Were Set Free." LinkedIn Weekend Essay. September 13, 2019.
Power, Samantha. "Like a Fish Out of a War Zone." Harvard Gazette. September 10, 2019.
Power, Samantha. "Obama Told Me the Good News, Then Saw My Face Fall." Atlantic. September 5, 2019.
Power, Samantha. The Education of an Idealist. HarperCollins, 2019.
Power, Samantha, and Betsy Fisher. "The Trump Administration Is Making a Mockery of the Supreme Court." New York Times. January 27, 2019.
Power, Samantha. "How Baseball Will Survive in the Age of Distraction." Washington Post. April 26, 2018.
Power, Samantha. "How Mike Pompeo Could Save the State Department." New York Times. March 18, 2018.
Power, Samantha. "Beyond Elections: Foreign Interference with American Democracy." Can it Happen Here?: Authoritarianism in America. Ed. Sunstein, Cass R.. HarperCollins, 2018, 81-96.
Power, Samantha. "Why Foreign Propaganda Is More Dangerous Now." New York Times. September 19, 2017.
Power, Samantha. "Why Elie Wiesel's 'Night' Still Matters so Much to Me – and All of Us." Forward. September 12, 2017.
Power, Samantha. "My Friend, the Russian Ambassador." New York Times. February 25, 2017.
Power, Samantha. "Foreword: The Inexorable Joyfulness of Elie Wiesel." Night: A Memoir. Hill and Wang, 2017.
Power, Samantha. "US Diplomacy: Realism and Reality." New York Review of Books, August 18, 2016.
Power, Samantha, ed. The Unquiet American: Richard Holbrooke in the World. Public Affairs, 2011.
Power, Samantha. "Foreword." Responsibility to Protect: The Global Moral Compact for the 21st Century. Ed. Richard H. Cooper and Juliette Voinov Kohler. Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Power, Samantha. "The Enforcer." New Yorker. January 19, 2009.
Power, Samantha. "Is Humanitarian Intervention Dead?" Review of Freedom's Battle: The Origins of Huma 1st Edition, by Gary J. Bass. SLATE, September 29, 2008.
Power, Samantha. "For Terrorists, a War on Aid Groups." New York Times, August 19, 2008.
Power, Samantha. "A Question of Honor." Time. August 14, 2008.
Power, Samantha. "The Democrats & National Security." Review of Us vs. Them: How a Half Century of Conservatism Has Undermined America's Security, by J. Peter Scoblic, and Heads in the Sand: How the Republicans Screw Up Foreign Policy and Foreign Policy Screws Up the Democrats, by Matthew Yglesias. New York Review of Books, 55.13, August 14, 2008: 66-72.
Power, Samantha. "Book 'Em." Time. August 4, 2008.
Power, Samantha. "Karadzic a Big Win for Hague Cops." Time. July 22, 2008.
Power, Samantha. "Legitimacy and Competence." To Lead the World: American Strategy after the Bush Doctrine. Ed. Melvyn P. Leffler and Jeffrey W. Legro. Oxford University Press, 2008, 133-156.
Power, Samantha. "Saving Zimbabwe." Time. July 14, 2008.
Power, Samantha. Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World. Penguin Press, 2008.
Power, Samantha. "Introduction." Axis Rule in Occupied Europe: Laws of Occupation, Analysis of Government, Proposals for Redress. Ed. Raphael Lemkin. Lawbook Exchange, 2008.
Power, Samantha. "Talking to Evil." Time. June 23, 2008.
Power, Samantha. "Engage Your Enemies." Time. June 23, 2008.
Power, Samantha. "The Short Tail." Time. June 2, 2008.
Power, Samantha. "Technology's Power to Narrow our View." Time, May 22, 2008.
Power, Samantha. "George Mitchell." Time. May 12, 2008.
Power, Samantha. ""Woe, Canada!"." Time. April 28, 2008.
Power, Samantha. "Keeping Canada in Afghanistan." Time, April 17, 2008.
Power, Samantha. "Ghosts of Kosovo." Time. March 10, 2008.
Power, Samantha. "Rethinking Iran." Time. January 17, 2008.
Power, Samantha. "The Envoy: The United Nation's Doomed Mission to Iraq." New Yorker. January 7, 2008.