Wenqing ngoei said that the United States was successful in the regional strategy. This is about 90 minutes. All right. Everyone, i would like to call us all to order. Good afternoon. And welcome to this afternoons session of the washington history seminar historical perspectives on international and national affairs. Im eric arnesen of George Washington university and im the cochair of this seminar along with Christian Ostermann who represents the Wilson Center. As you may see, we have cspan taping here today so we would like to welcome those of you who are watching on your computers or on your Television Screens and suggest that you visit the website to learn more about the Seminar Series and upcoming speakers here at the Wilson Center. The washington history seminar is a collaborative effort of two organizations. The Woodrow Wilson international for scholars and history and Public Policy program and the american Historical Associations National history center. We are in the ninth ye
Event was hosted by the National History center. Welcome to this ongoing series hosted by the National History center. We bring perspective to Current Issues and try to provide historical content that can help to inform policymakers and deal with difficult issues. I would like to start first before introduce this mornings topic and speakers, to think the Carnegie Mellon foundation for funding our program. I would also like to thank the office of congressman Gerry Connolly for arranging meeting space. Above all, i thank, congressmann physics from the 11th the district a phd in physics from the 11th district of illinois. And his communication director for their help in organizing the briefing. As always, thanks to amanda perry for organizing the briefings, she is our assistant director. Some of you may remember a cover from the new yorker that came out just a few weeks ago. I will show you an example. It shows robots going about their daily work, coffee and their lunch pails. The rest of
Cohair of the washington history seminar along with my colleague, christian, of the history and Public Policy program. Seminar for those of you who dont though is a collaborative east of the National History center which is part of the American History association and center for scholars. The traditionally meet on monday afternoons at 4 p. M. , though, today for our fall lunch weve made exception and chosen a beautiful pride afternoon to get this season started. Though, normally we meet on monday afternoons mark it down 4 p. M. If you vpght the goen schedule yet already please pick one up or go to the washington history seminars website, on the National History center to download a copy of all of the tacks for the rest of the fall season. Our programs is exciting mars dont happen like this for themselves and amanda perry of the National History center worked behind scenes to ensure that the seminars come off without a hitch. We also rely upon the generous Financial Support of a number
Published book, a cold war of global history. Im from George Washington university and im the cochair of the washington History Center along with christian arneson of the policy program. The seminar for those of you who dont know is a collaborative effort of the national History Center which is part of the American Historical Association and Woodrow Wilson enters nationalcenter for scholars. We meet on monday afternoon at 4 pm though today for our fall lunch , we made an exception and it shows a beautiful friday afternoon to get this started. So normally we meet on monday afternoons, market down, 4 pm. If you have gotten the schedule already, we can go to the washington history seminars website and national History Center and download a copy of all the talks all season. I think our programming this fall is particularly exciting. Seminars like this dont happen by themselves. On the logistics front, peter stecker of the Wilson Center and amanda perry work behindthescenes to ensure that t
Friend of mine. First, let me make some general introductions. This is the last session of the washington washington history seminar for this spring season. We will start up again in september, and we have together our fall lineup of speakers, and we will be sending that out very shortly. It is a very exciting list of speakers. I think you will find it very exciting very interesting. We are delighted that we have been able to attract so many very irst rate people to speak. I want to thank, as always, the people behind the scenes who make this possible. The liaison for the Wilson Center makes all he logistical arrangements here, and amanda perry, over to the side and the front, the assistant director of the National History center who also helps out in arranging these events. I also want to issue a special word of thanks to our sponsors. First and foremost, schaeffer, the society of historians of american foreignpolicy. Andthey have provided funding to make this series possible. We also