Associate professor of history at temple university. Shes a specialist in transnational culture, gender history and the history of cultural globalization. Shes a coeditor of the one of the most important journals in the field, diplomatic history. And her publications include two books. Now, of course, politics of peace published by oxford this year. Its based on this book that she will be speaking to us today. She has coedited two books, the human rights revolution, oxford 2012, and the oxford handbook of the cold war published in 2013. Today she will be speaking on, quote, if you want peace, detours on the path to politics of peace in the early cold war. You have the floor. Thank you very much. Thanks to christian, eric, to peter, rachel and everybody else who makes this possible for inviting me. Its a great honor to be here. I was embarrassed to have to admit i had never been here. Im going to try and make an effort, because i realize philadelphia is not that far from washington, at
A bunch of old audience this year and a lot. Of as welcome to the program corona virus infections confirmed worldwide have now passed 1500000 with the death toll approaching 90000 some countries hope the worst may soon be over after seeing sustained drops in new cases but others are seeing fresh outbreaks in india officials are sealing off coronavirus hotspots in the capital daily and the neighboring state the number of cases rose to over 5000 russia has seen a record daily spike in confirmed virus cases nearly 1500 new infections spains Prime Minister says the country may be nearing the peak of its epidemic lawmakers are set to vote on extending lockdown measures by another 2 weeks in germany the death toll climbed past 2100 today while the number of confirmed infections as risen to more than 108000. Well those figures roughly quaids to death rate of 1. 9 percent which is remarkably low in comparison to other western nations the german anomaly puzzled scientists among the answers the
A virtual audience this year and a lot. Of as welcome corona virus infections confirmed worldwide have now passed 1500000 with the death toll approaching 90000 some countries hope the worst may soon be over after seeing sustained drops in new cases but others are seeing fresh outbreaks hungary has discovered more than 100 infections at a senior cas center in the capital city budapest russia has seen a record daily spike in confirmed virus cases nearly 1500 new infections spains Prime Minister says the country may be nearing the peak of its epidemic lawmakers there are set to vote on extending lockdown measures by another 2 weeks and in germany the death toll climb past 2100 today while the number of confirmed infections as risen to more than 108000. Those figures roughly equal to a death rate of 1. 9 percent which is remarkably low in comparison to other western nations the german anomaly has puzzled scientists among the answers the high number of tests carried out and the country is a
Definitely running away from risky assets on virus fears over the weekend. We have a number of cases initially climbing, putting extra pressure on the ftse made. Mib. Down 4 . Travel and leisure down significantly so the fact the epicenter has moved from china, korea, and some of the asian economies in europe, it is freaking out investors, saying the spread may come to europe. But, two. 3 higher, 1682, outside to quality italia and markets. Italian sovereign bonds, dropping quite a lot as italy is the epicenter for the coronavirus in europe. Plenty more on that throughout the day but lets get to first word news in new york city with Viviana Hurtado. Viviana President Donald Trump in india. Moments ago, he said he is countries can reach a great trade deal, as he announced they are to sign a deal worth 3 billion in military sales. It also comes during his official status visit. Mp spoke at a namaste tru event and will visit the taj mahal. Reforms. S want sweeping boats in iran and other
Yesterday, a headline said china planning to surprise trump and negotiators with a last minute plan for phase one to remove september tariffs this has never been talked about. Delaying future tariffs was the most we were going to agree on trump was getting traction because of the bite. This has never been on the table. China will get it done then i read it today it said these are now part of the negotiation. The way it was cast is that it was almost like an appeasement or throwing in the hand. Is it negotiations or are we backing down the deal is likely to get done each side wants to say we got what we wanted now, if that happens, the markets will be like that. Thats the big question, does the market care if it comes without any teeth. Do they just want a truce and no more ramped up sort. For phase one, do they want to give up what they were working to force them out of the table. I think what the market is really looking foreGoing Forward is if you are going to continue conversations.