Talking specifically about the sixday war, i came to the understanding or at least this is my argument that you should see the war in a global context because even before were starting to deal with what nasser did on the 13th of may and why he acted the way he did when he received that memo, webbed think about the fact we should think about the fact that the whole developing world was experiencing a severe economic crisis at the time, and all the countries that fought the sixday war were developing countries. Some were more developed than others, israel more than egypt, but they were all developing countries. And what happens in the mid 60s is basically the end of a business cycle. A decade beforehand, in the mid 50s, everybody looked, lets say, in places like the u. S. , in washington, in new york, even in moscow. They looked at the developing world like people looked at china until two years ago. Or beforehand the way people looked at japan and thought it would rule the world. They s
Doctor laron was a great pleasure to welcome you to this event. Im a christian and i directed the history and Public Policy program at the Woodrow Wilson center, a program that tries to provide Historical Context to current Public Policy issues in washington. Many of you are familiar with one of the subprojects of the history of Public Policy, the program we have run here for 25 years. More than 25 years. A project thats devoted to uncovering, collecting, translating, disseminating, making accessible and discussing new evidence from what used to be the former communist world archived but its crept to what now include really all hard to access archives around the world. We are delighted to launch with this event today, a series of activities discussing, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the sixday war. We will have today the launch of perhaps the most important new publication of International History to come out on the war. I thank you are all in for a treat. We are also doing
France. The increasing numbers of young people like her who are throwing their full support for macrons party in the upcoming parliamentary elections, could herald a paradigm shift for the country and unsettle the establishment. Reporter Justine Henry is exhausted but relieved that her efforts were worth it. For months, she campaigned day and night for macrons en marche movement. But there is no no time to rest. Under its new name La Republique en marche, the party now has to make significant gains in the legislative elections. We have to get an absolute majority. Its doable but it will be tight. Well have to fight, but were used to that and good at it. We dont do politics like the others do, we dont just sit around and wait till we get elected as if by right, without going out and coming into contact with people. We meet local people, we do things in a constructive and coherent manner according to our principles and our values and thats what works. Reporter but its not been easy. Just
And campaign for it. Justine henry believes in a new france. The increasing numbers of young people like her who are throwing their full support for macrons party in the upcoming parliamentary elections, could herald a paradigm shift for the country and unsettle the establishment. Reporter Justine Henry is exhausted but relieved that her were worth it. For months, she campaigned day and night for macrons en marche movement. But there is no no time to rest. Under its nenamea republique en marche, the party now has to make significant gains in the legislative elections. We have to get an absolute majority. Its doable but it will be tight. Well have to fight, but were used to that and good at it. We dont do politics like the others do, we dont just sit around and wait till we get elected as if by right, without going out and coming into contact with people. We meet local people, we do things in a constructive and coherent manner according to our principles and our values and thats what wo
And campaign for it. Justine henry believes in a new france. The increasing numbers of young people like her who are throwing their full support for macrons party in the upcoming parliamentary elections, could herald a paradigm shift for the country and unsettle the establishment. Reporter Justine Henry is exhausted but relieved that her were worth it. For months, she campaigned day and night for macrons en marche movement. But there is no no time to rest. Under its nenamea republique en marche, the party now has to make significant gains in the legislative elections. We have to get an absolute majority. Its doable but it will be tight. Well have to fight, but were used to that and good at it. We dont do politics like the others do, we dont just sit around and wait till we get elected as if by right, without going out and coming into contact with people. We meet local people, we do things in a constructive and coherent manner according to our principles and our values and thats what wo