Hosted by the Plymouth Center in austin, texas. Im a professor here at the lbj School University of texas. Its a great pleasure to welcome you all here. Its my pleasure to moderate this panel. I will introduce the panelist really because you have their bios. I wont go through their bios in my introduction. Its an interesting time to be talking about europe. Period in which the attention of the world shifted away from europe, we tended to take for granted the achievement of a more united europe. Now that assumption is being called into question. The achievement of a more united europe, including Eastern Europe and western europe, is one of the most monumental achievements of my lifetime. I wouldnt say its under threat, but it is facing numerous challenges from russia, from the greek debt crisis, from immigration, from brexit, and from the president elect of United States. All the things conspired to make europe more interesting. Lets put it this way. The period, the Reagan Administratio
Existential is Nuclear Weapons. Haves positions on this been all over the map, so it is very hard to know what he means, but some of them are pretty frightening. Amy we will also speak with professor noam chomsky about his new book requiem for the , American Dream the 10 principles of concentration of wealth power. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The britishbased Monitoring Group the syrian observatory for human rights reports dozens of people have been killed in more than 200 wounded and suspected chemical weapons attack the rebel held town in Idlib Province also the observatory reports at least 11 children under the age of eight were killed in the attack. Afp is reporting a few hours after the alleged gas attack, a rocket hit a nearby hospital where victims were being treated. The observatory says it does not know whether the attack was carried out by the Syrian Government or its ally, russia. The S
Policy seems toe contradict any notion he sought to eliminate the weapons. Strategic forces received an increase in funding as he saw the to the modernize all three legs of ballistic bombers, missiles and submarines. To relaunch the b 1 program, to modernize existing bomber force, improve the trident missile. He will produced an additional 17,000 warheads by 1987, a significant increase over the plans of the carter administration. By 1985, u. S. Nuclear forces were more lethal and technically advanced than at any point. American history. It presents a strong con taft to the focus on arms control and arms reduction in his second. Creating a tantalizing narrative of it his sudden reversal. However, the shift in tone is a bit less stark when viewed through the vision of how to achieve vision. Reagan viewed military strength as essential to establishing peace and identified establishing a sound eastwest balance as essential to peace, as well. When he assumed office, he and his National Sec
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It will be on the falklands crisis of 1982. Lets talk about Ronald Reagans foreign policy. We are a generation removed and historians are looking back to see what worked and what did not. Your book is based on one of the most high profile summits that took place. First of all, why was reykjavik the location for the summit . What was the goal . James Graham Wilson it would be a prelude at the end of 1986 for gorbachev coming to the United States. It was a, lets get together in a compromise country between the east and the west and have an informal conversation about how to move forward. This turned very quickly into a rather dramatic few days in which reagan and gorbachev spoke very seriously about getting rid of all nuclear weapons. And the stumbling block right at the end was gorbachev asking reagan to limit testing of sdi, something that was very dear to him. And some the people around him. So this encounter ended with scenes of reagan slumped over, very emotional, gorbachev looking