And scholarship commemorates, quote, the ideals and concerns of Woodrow Wilson. As both a distinguished scholar and national leader, president wilson felt strongly that the scholar and the policy maker were, quote, engaged in a common enterprise. Today, the center takes seriously his views on the need to bridge the gap between the world of ideas and the world of policy. Bringing them into creative contact, enriching the work of both and enabling each to learn from the other. This series, wilson then and now, is our effort to make wilson and his period more central to that creative contact between ideas and practice in national and global affairs. In a critical and inclusive way, we seek to highlight work on wilson and his time that offers explicit or implicit lessons for contemporary or enduring problems in public where international life. For this, episode we wanted to look beyond Academic Work in a narrow sense of articles and monographs. And look at the work of public scholars wrest
Papers where hes edited so far 20 of these critical volumes of madisons personal correspondence. Wed like another 20, john, if you think you can fit that in, in the next few years. Doubled your breath. Dont hold your breath. Because of the work of john and his team, we have much more complete understanding of madison and the context of his life and really we cannot have done our work without this incredible research. Today, hes going to illuminate for us the intricacies of madisons presidency and madisons later Life Reflections on his thoughts about the war. Please join me in welcoming our colleague and our mentor, dr. John stagg. [ applause ] thank you, katherine, for the wonderful welcome, and i would like to add my thanks to those of our previous speakers to the organizers of the conference today. As the bicentennial of the war approached, i found myself wondering, what is the federal government in washington going to do about the bicentennial war of 1812 . [laughter] it was entirel
And now on booktv, Peter Andreas talks about the long history of smuggling in the u. S. Which, prior to the revolutionary war, was driven by a desire to grow Domestic Industries and bypass paying import taxes to the british. Its about an hour and a half. Good afternoon and welcome, everyone, to the Watson Institute for International Studies for the discussion of Peter Andreas new book, smuggler nation. Housekeeping, i have to mention some things. The way were going to run this is as follows, peter is going to get up and talk briefly about the book because, obviously, if he doesnt say anything, this will become a stunningly oneway conversation. After this, i will invite katherine, richard and james to say their piece on the book, and hopefully we can get into a good discussion. At that point we will open up for q a, and you will see there is one fixed microphone there, and there is another mobile microphone for this side of the house. If you wish to join the q a, please, if youre on thi
Oneway conversation. After this will invite richard and james to say their piece on the book, and hopefully we can get stuck into a good discussion of smuggler nation and its aspects. At that point, we will open it up for q a. You will see it is one fix microphone, and another mobile microphone for this side of the house. If you wish to join the q a, please, if youre on this side get up and stand behind a microphone. We have to do it this way because there is no mobile microphone that we can use for recording for cspan, and we do what your questions and answers to be an integral part of this broadcast. So there we go. Without any further ado i will begin my brief introduction, even though it was kind of redundant because obviously ive just an introduction well as to investing. So, heres the book. There we go. Its bake. Now if you know peter you will know that this is unusual because he tends to reassure books. And theres nothing wrong with that. Its great, but its a bit of a surprise w
After that we will open up for q a. You will see one fixed microphone there and another vocal microphone for the site of the house. If you wish to join q a, get up and stand behind the microphone. We have to do it this way because they are so mobile is for recording cspan and we do want your questions and answers to be an integral part of this broadcast. So there we go. Without further ado, ill begin my brief introduction. So heres the book. There we go. For those of you who know peter, you know this is unusual. Peter tends to write short books. You think to yourself, this is serious. Im not going to get into the details. Im going to see general things about the book at the first one is this book marks Peter Andreas thugs at because its wellwritten and is actually enjoyable. Its quite readable and clear and utterly devoid of jargon and it contains a powerful political message. The second reason to like this book is that it is not devoid of theoretical hats, pretension. Tijuana sociolog