Ensure the deal is being enforced from the Heritage Foundation, this is an hour and a half. Good afternoon. Welcome to the Heritage Foundation and our douglas and sarah allen auditorium. We welcome those who join us on our heritage. Org on this occasion. For those in house, we ask the courtesy check that mobile devices have been silenced or turned off as we prepare to begin and for those watching online, youre welcome to send questions or comments simply emailing heritagespeaker. Org. Leading our discussion, phillips the fellow for middle Eastern Affairs and douglas sand sarah allen for foreign studies and written widely on the middle east and issues of International Terrorism since coming to the hr taj fo Heritage Foundation in 1979. Dozee authored dozens of articles on other middle east security issues. Please join me in welcoming jim phillips. [ applause ] thank you, john. The Iran Nuclear Agreement has been enforced now for more than a year but yet, it faces a very uncertain future
Host richard, congratulations on your book tickets not only the most thoughtful but its very timely and i think we do show that there on the screen. Very timely in discussing a world of disarray. Let me ask you right off the bat why did you write it . Guest i didnt know paula when i rode it who was going to be the president. I simply knew that this was going to be the inbox that would greet whoever was the president of United States but a lot of these trends have been long in the making. Some of the more recent but the bottom line was that whoever wins an election will choose just about everything, theyre running mate, their policies. The only thing they can choose is their inbox and what i wanted to do was talk about the next president and just as important how we got from the optimism of 25 years ago to something that shall we say its decidedly other than optimistic in the last part of the book i talk about what is it we should avoid about doing it. Whose though i noticed in the begi
His book the world in disarray. Senator hoskins interviewed by former under secretary of state for Global Affairs from 2001 to 2009 and senior fellow for Harvard University teacher of diplomacy project. Richard, congratulations on your book, its not only the most thoughtful but its very timely and i think we just showed it there onthe screen. Very timely in discussing the world in disarray. Let me ask, why did you write it . I didnt know paula when i wrote it that it was going to be this, i simply knew that this was going to be the inbox whoever was the 45th president. And the last part of the book i talk about what is it we should and should avoid doing about it. Host i noticed in the beginning of the book you also discuss the fact that you have the opportunity to teach at Pembroke College at cambridge, that richard gere love of mi six, project and as the humana top visiting professor statecraft and diplomacy. Great title. What in particular, what impetus during those lectures that yo
If we honored on my view Reagan Administration, so this one will be more informal recollections about what it was like working in the administration for president reagan and the atmosphere at the time. Each of our panelists will offer about 15 minutes of comments and we will adjourn for a q a. For my fellow historians, this is your time to do the expert interviews you have been wanting to do. Introducing my three panelists, this is the man who needs no introduction, because i introduced him three hours ago. Ken adelman. For our purposes here, he served as one of president reagans ambassadors to the u. N. And was also a troubleshooter in another way. I want to talk to you about your role in helping put that together. In the middle here, again, a man to those of us who here in austin we need no direction, bob inman. A very important alumni of the Reagan Administration as well. He was the nsa director and was referenced by one of the speakers in the earlier panel, that was the Deputy Dire
If we honored on my view Reagan Administration, so this one will be more informal recollections about what it was like working in the administration for president reagan and the atmosphere at the time. Each of our panelists will offer about 15 minutes of comments and we will adjourn for a q a. For my fellow historians, this is your time to do the expert interviews you have been wanting to do. Introducing my three panelists, this is the man who needs no introduction, because i introduced him three hours ago. Ken adelman. For our purposes here, he served as one of president reagans ambassadors to the u. N. And was also a troubleshooter in another way. I want to talk to you about your role in helping put that together. In the middle here, again, a man to those of us who here in austin we need no direction, bob inman. A very important alumni of the Reagan Administration as well. He was the nsa director and was referenced by one of the speakers in the earlier panel, that was the Deputy Dire