January 17, 2020
Andrew Bacevich, President of the Quincy Institute and Professor Emeritus of International Relations and History at Boston University, on his new book: The Age of Illusions: How America Squandered Its Cold War Victory.
When the Cold War ended with the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Washington establishment felt it had prevailed in a world-historical struggle. History, having brought the United States to the very summit of power and prestige, had validated American-style liberal democratic capitalism as universally applicable. Listen to the conversation with Andrew Bacevich as he explains how, within a quarter of a century, the United States ended up with gaping inequality, permanent war, moral confusion, and an increasingly angry and alienated population, as well, of course, as the strangest president in American history.
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January 17, 2020
Angela Stent, Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Center on the United States and Europe at Brookings Institution and Director of the Center for Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies at Georgetown University, and Jill Dougherty, SFS Centennial Fellow at Georgetown University, Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and CNN Contributor, discuss Stent's book Putin's World: Russia Against the West and With the Rest.
We all now live in a paranoid and polarized world of Putin's making, and the Russian leader, through guile and disruption, has resurrected Russia's status as a force to be reckoned with. Stent helps Americans understand how and why the post-Cold War era has given way to a new, more dangerous world, one in which Russia poses a challenge to the U.S. in every corner of the globe -- and one in which Russia has become a toxic and divisive subject in U.S. politics. Listen to the conversation with Angela Stent and Jill Dougherty about Russia's role on the global stage.
December 13, 2019
WACA's Cover to Cover conference call on Thursday, November 21, at 2:00-2:30 PM ET, featured Marina and David Ottaway, Middle East Fellows at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
A Tale of Four Worlds: The Arab Region After the Uprisings
First came the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire following World War I; then, in the 1950s and '60s, the Nasser-inspired wave of Arab nationalism and socialism. The Arab world's third great political cataclysm of the past 100 years has also brought permanent changes, but not as its activists had hoped: the 2011 uprisings. Their consequences have differed greatly from area to area, splintering the Arab region into four different worlds. Join Marina and David Ottaway as they discuss the profound upheavals that have shaken - and continue to transform - Arab and global politics.
December 13, 2019
WACA's Cover to Cover conference call on Wednesday, October 9, at 2:00-2:30 PM ET, featured Hope Harrison, Associate Professor of History and International Affairs, The George Washington University.
After the Berlin Wall: Memory and the Making of the New Germany, 1989 to the Present
The history and meaning of the Berlin Wall remain controversial, even three decades after its fall. Drawing on an extensive range of archival sources and interviews, this book profiles key memory activists who have fought to commemorate the history of the Berlin Wall and examines their role in the creation of a new German national narrative. This revelatory work also traces how global memory of the Wall has impacted German memory policy, and it depicts the power and fragility of state-backed memory projects, and the potential of such projects to reconcile or divide.
October 23, 2019
February's Cover to Cover features author Sarah Chayes on his new book, Thieves of State, on Wednesday, February 18, at 2:00-2:30 PM ET. Sarah Chayes is an American author and world renown speaker.
October 23, 2019
May's Cover to Cover features author Chris Woods on his new book, Sudden Justice: America's Secret Drone, on Wednesday, May 13, at 2:00-2:30 PM ET. Chris Woods is an American investigative journalist who specializes in conflict and national security issues.
October 23, 2019
June's Cover to Cover features author Walter Laqueur on his new book, Putinism: Russia and Its Future with the West, on Sunday, June 18, at 2:00-2:30 PM ET. Walter Laqueur is an American historian, journalist and political commentator.
October 23, 2019
June's Cover to Cover features author Russell Gold on his new book, The Boom, on Thursday, June 12, at 2:00-2:30 PM ET. Russell Gold is an American reporter for Wall Street Journal and the author of The Boom.
October 23, 2019
August's Cover to Cover features author Barry Posen on his new book, Restraint: A New Foundation for U.S. Grand Strategy, on Tuesday, August 12, at 2:00-2:30 PM ET. Barry Posen is an American professor of Political Science at MIT.
October 23, 2019
October's Cover to Cover features author Chris Hill on his new book, Outpost: A Diplomat at Work, October 6, at 2:00-2:30 PM ET. Chris Hill is an American diplomat, currently charged with the Chief Advisor to the Chancellor for Global Engagement and Professor of the Practice in Diplomacy at the University of Denver.
