Years, served mostly in the middle east or africa. During that time, i didnt see a lot of what you would call successes. There were not a lot of saving the world, stopping a coup, averting a humanitarian disaster , the kind of thing you might see madam secretary accomplish in her halfhour series. I was never really in that kind of position. Perhaps the opposite, trouble seemed to follow me wherever i went. I saw a lot of military mutinies, and i served in iraq, served in sudan. None of which places you would call a triumph for american diplomacy. But thinking about this, i want intell a story from iran 1980. Before i joined the foreign service, i had lived in iran. I was a teacher, a researcher. Iranian. S i thought i knew the country fairly well. I went there as a diplomat. August of 1979. That was about six months after shah and alsohe about two and a half months before president carter decided to admit the deposed shah and a few weeks after that a group of iranian militants stormed
I like to welcome everybody to russia and eurasia seminar. We do it every two weeks. As you know, and today we, given the speaker we have and the topic hes going to deal with, we had the pleasure of welcoming cspan here, which is broadcasting this event, as far as i can tell, live on cspan two. Im charles gati. I organized the similars. I say very little because i want the speaker to have as much time as possible. Just to give you a little background, he comes from massachusetts. He went, studied soviet studies at harvard. Before that got his ba also in soviet studies and Political Science from tufts university, at harvard he studied with legendary adam alone, and that tufts with old friend of mine. He laughed washington after some 24 or 25 years, and now hes a professor at, in florida, at the program for human rights and diplomacy at Florida International university and moved, is shrouded in mystery because few people do that perhaps it will tell us, and also declassified information
Have a postdoctoral program, we have a number of postdoctoral fellows here at sais this year with us doing their work. And one of them has just finished a book before she got here, and we were really delighted to end publicize it and the first public release of the book. So cornelia has this new book. So, peace, security and defense cooperation in postbrexit europe. Pretty timely. Shes been working with her colleagues on those questions. So so we thought the context of the book would be good to talk about a very timely issue now which is whats going on with brexit, what does it mean not only for the u. K. And the e. U. Member states, but also for broader Security Issues which start to affect, of course, u. S. Interests quite intensely. So what well do is i will just briefly introduce the speakers. You have had an invitation and so on, more about their backgrounds, but just to keep it brief, i want to have cornelia tell us briefly about the book, and then were going to go to two colleag
We appreciate your spending your time with us. My name is dan hamilton, im a professor here at Johns Hopkins, Foreign Policy institute fellow. We have a post doctoral fellows. We are delighted today help publicize it in the first public release of the book. So shes here as a post doc fellow has this new book. Pretty timely. And shes been working on it with her colleagues in europe on those questions. We thought the context of the book would be good to talk about very timely issue now, which is whats going on with brexit. What does it mean, not only for the uk and the e. U. Member states, but also for broader Security Issues, which will start to affect, of course, the u. S. Interests quite intensely. So what well do is i will just briefly introduce the speakers. Youve had an invitation and so on, more about their backgrounds. But just to keep it brief, ive got cornelia to tell us briefly about the book. Then were going to go to two colleagues, the assistant professor here who does work
One of the things we to do is we have a postdoctoral program, we have a number of postdoctoral fellows here at sais this year with us doing their work. And one of them has just finished a book before she got here, and we were really delighted to end publicize it and the first public release of the book. So cornelia has this new book. So, peace, security and defense cooperation in postbrexit europe. Pretty timely. Shes been working with her colleagues on those questions. So we thought the context of the book would be good to talk about a very timely issue now, which is whats going on with brexit, what does it mean not only for the u. K. And the e. U. Member states, but also for broader Security Issues which start to affect, of course, u. S. Interests quite intensely . So what well do is i will just briefly introduce the speakers. You have had an invitation and so on, more about their backgrounds, but just to keep it brief, i want to have cornelia tell us briefly about the book, and then