Political public significance. And thats a very satisfying role. Watch after words sunday night at 9 eastern on book tv. On cspan 2. Next a look at security threats in the region of north africa known as the maghreb. Which includes a discussion which Security Officials from tunisia, algeria, and morocco. Good morning everybody. Welcome. Im very pleased to have you join us today for whats fwoing to be a fascinating conversation. I was talking with our very distinguished speakers just as we were waiting for people to gather. In washington, north africa is kind of a blank spot. Theres so much in the region that we dont know. And we tend to look at we look at europe and africa, the middle east. We dont look at the maghreb. And think about it in a systemic thoughtful way. That will be the opportunity for today. Were going to have a the spend the day with these remarkable leaders. And i do want to say thank you for coming. Im very proud that you would be here. This is were going to explore t
Political public significance. And thats a very satisfying role. Watch after words sunday night at 9 eastern on book tv. On cspan 2. Next a look at security threats in the region of north africa known as the maghreb. Which includes a discussion which Security Officials from tunisia, algeria, and morocco. Good morning everybody. Welcome. Im very pleased to have you join us today for whats fwoing to be a fascinating conversation. I was talking with our very distinguished speakers just as we were waiting for people to gather. In washington, north africa is kind of a blank spot. Theres so much in the region that we dont know. And we tend to look at we look at europe and africa, the middle east. We dont look at the maghreb. And think about it in a systemic thoughtful way. That will be the opportunity for today. Were going to have a the spend the day with these remarkable leaders. And i do want to say thank you for coming. Im very proud that you would be here. This is were going to explore t
[crowd noise] we are going to get started here. Thank you all, for joining us. Director of the project on military and diplomatic history here. We formed this to understand how history can help us understand current issues. With historians and that includes our speaker today, and we also like to promote interaction between historians and policy experts. And we have one of our own csi s csis policyts experts here with us. October 10 we are going to have carter talk about his book. On october 18 we will have Lawrence Friedman on the future of his book to talk about his and we will also talk about the history of foreign interference in our elections. You can sign up on our mailing signup to our mailing list, on our website. One of the virtues of history is that it provides us with rich, contextual understanding. If you country if you study a country for years and years as historians do, you learn how institutions interact in a way that you otherwise would not understand. Viewearn also, ho
In just a moment to the Foreign Relations committee will come to order and thank you to all those for being here. Todays hearing will examine the crisis in libya. Like to thank your witnesses for again appearing before the committee on this important issue. Unfortunately six years ago after they nato intervention in libya remains on the brink of civil war. Like many of its neighbors libya failed to transition into a stable Representative Democracy hoped for by the citizens following the arab spring. Sadly its a libyan people who have paid the price. Fighting between militias has undefined internal security, we can government institutions and damaged the economy. It is also posing substantial risk to the u. S. And to our allies. Infighting is created a permissive environment for terrorist groups like isis. The organizations gains in libya have led to u. S. Supported boteri options in places like sir. Conditions allowing extremists to thrive remain. I think any of us agree that the libya
In just a moment to the Foreign Relations committee will come to order and thank you to all those for being here. Todays hearing will examine the crisis in libya. Like to thank your witnesses for again appearing before the committee on this important issue. Unfortunately six years ago after they nato intervention in libya remains on the brink of civil war. Like many of its neighbors libya failed to transition into a stable Representative Democracy hoped for by the citizens following the arab spring. Sadly its a libyan people who have paid the price. Fighting between militias has undefined internal security, we can government institutions and damaged the economy. It is also posing substantial risk to the u. S. And to our allies. Infighting is created a permissive environment for terrorist groups like isis. The organizations gains in libya have led to u. S. Supported boteri options in places like sir. Conditions allowing extremists to thrive remain. I think any of us agree that the libya