Foreignpolicy and how it changed the world. Which identified for overarching trends in foreignpolicy. The hamiltonian, jeffersonian and jacksonian, this way of thinking about foreignpolicy remains a touchstone for how we think about foreignpolicy today. He will talk about president s today, but focus on a different group. Franklin roosevelt, Harry S Truman and ronald reagan. He will provide a lot of insight into our current situation. After he speaks, we will take questions from the audience and questions on our twitter site. The twitter handle is it rolls off the tongue. The program for military and diplomatic history. Please join me in welcoming professor Walter Russell mead. [applause] prof. Mead thank you for that introduction and the opportunity to speak today. I want to congratulate you and csis for taking history seriously. I think this may be one of the critical gaps in american foreignpolicy. The failure of colleges and universities to put value on this knowledge, certainly in
Clarity of expression. Younger members of the audience, you may have read his book the special providence american foreignpolicy and how it changed the world. It identified four arching trends four overarching trends the hamiltonian, jeffersonian and jacksonian, this way of thinking about foreignpolicy remains a touchstone for how we think about foreignpolicy today. He will talk about president s today, but focus on a different group. Franklin roosevelt, harry s. Truman, and ronald reagan. You will learn a lot from hearing about these three. They will provide a lot of insight into our current situation. After he speaks, we will take questions from the audience and questions on our twitter site. The twitter handle is cispmdh. It rolls off the tongue. Please join me in welcoming professor Walter Russell mead. [applause] prof. Mead thank you for that introduction and the opportunity to speak today. I want to congratulate you and csis for taking history seriously. Personally, i think this
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Can we do this better the biggest thing that i iran into. When i was engaging in the larger thinking community and larger academic trinity is this challenge of getting past iran. That we can ironically to go to understand as well as the idea that iran is irrational. What i consider the mad problem is that iran is too crazy and both of these ideas really handicap us. A train and been able to understand what iran is thinking about and how it looks at the us and formulates its foreign policies. Thats the heart of what i am trying to do in this monogram is take the face off that confusion and say you cant understand this and its what im trying to do. Its not so much provide a whole bunch of policies policy prescription with this administration or for future administrations but basically, provide analytic framework and models, if you will, for understanding how iran develops its foreign policies, how iran develops its approaches in particular to Security Issues and how it goes to war, how i