Good afternoon. I want to welcome one and all to today is todays council on this will launch the january and february issue of our affairs magazine. I urge you to read this issue. The subject today is another article in the magazine, i should probably introduce myself. My name is richard hoss, i work here at the council on foreign relations. [applause] richard we are joined today by the gentleman on my right, joe biden who served as the 47 Vice President of these United States and now leads the biden center. It is for diplomacy. Let me Say Something about this center that is based here in our nations capital. It will officially opens its doors february 8. Them mission of the center is to develop and advance smart policy and influence the National Debate on how america can continue to lead in the century and is founded on the principle that a democratic, open, secure, tolerant and interconnected world benefits all americans. Full disclosure, the former Vice President and i go back more
Good afternoon. I want to welcome one and all to todays council on Foreign Relations meeting. I urge you all to read it. We talk about how countries have failed or either dealt with the legacy of their own past. This deals with countries like south africa, but also the United States, given our complicated legacy as well as russia, china and others. I would invite people to look at it. The subject of today is another article in the magazine. I should probably introduce myself. My name is richard hoss. I work here at the council on Foreign Relations. And i work for richard. Richard we are joined today by the gentleman on my right, joe biden who served as the 47 Vice President of these United States and now leads the biden center. For diplomacy and engagement. Let me Say Something about this center that is based here in our nations capital. It will officially opens its doors february 8. The mission of the center is to develop and advance smart policy and influence the National Debate on h
Book, inside job, how government insiders subvert the Public Interest. His book looks at the sources of national decline. Typically when people think about national decline, they often look outside government, add special Interest Groups that try to coop governments for their own benefit. However, mark takes a different approach and looks at the sources of national decline. Com from inside government, from government insiders. It may cause even more harm to countries and civilizations than the harms that come fro outside government. We are looking forward to hearing from him today. The way we will frame todays book form, first we will hear remarks from him and then we will have comments from Jonathan Rauch at the Brookings Institution and myself. First i would like to introduce doctor zupan. He began his tenure as the 14th resident of Alfred University on july 2016. He was at the Business School of rochester from january 1, 2004. He served as dean and professor of economics at the univ
Dr. Zupans book look at the sources of national decline. Typically when people think about the sources of national decline they often look outside of government at specialInterest Groups that try to coopt government for their own benefit. However dr. Zupan takes a different approach and looks at the sources of national decline that come from inside government , from government insiders and it may cause even more harm to countries and civilizations than the harm that comes from outside of government we are really looking forward to hearing from dr. Zupan today. The way we will be framing todays book forums first we are going to hear remarks from dr. Zupan and then we will have comments from both Lindsay Cutshall from the Brookings Institute and myself. First i would like to introduce dr. Zupan. Dr. Zupan begin his tenure as the 14th president of alford university on july 1, 2016. Histidine at the Business School at the university of rochester from january 1, 2004. Zupan served as dean a
Japan, wellknown faces are disappearing. Moroccon authorities have a problem with reporters and a court case underway. What is the story at davos, with the world forum, the people who go there and the journalists who cover it. Jurmism in afghanistan was dealt a killer blow journalism. Many were killed when the taliban targeted their bus in a bombing. Last year the militant group declared the channel a military target and this attack was a message to the rest of the afghan media. The targeting of tolo leaves afghan journalists in a hard place with the threat posed by the taliban and the government to report on afghanistan in a way that suits their version of the political and social story, the progress is being made. Until last weeks attack on the media, government officials and those with links to them had been responsible for more threats against afghan journalists over stories of corruption, land grabs, violence against women and human rights abuses than the taliban were. With the af