Honorable mention for the Frederick Jackson turner award in 2012. He is currently working on a sequel to warfare state tentatively titled leviathon. Arrows right iser allida black is Research Professor of International Affairs at the George Washington university. The Founding Editor of the Eleanor Roosevelt papers project which highlights the former first ladys writings and pronouncements on human rights and democracy. She is a widely published author including casting her own shadow Eleanor Roosevelt and the shaping of postwar and a new and expensively reedited edition of tomorrow is now. She has worked on human rights education in numerous countries particularly in postconflict societies. This is going to be an interesting presentation on deed. To dr. Blacks right sarah , cramsey, a newly minted phd at berkeley and stanford. A professor of jewish studies at tulane university. A professor of practice at of jewish studies fulbright fellow and a foreign scholar. She will be a Research F
But when the cold war ended and particularly when the war in terror began, it moved so drastically away from focus on russia that i think it lost its ability to conduct operations even in conducting basic analytical work about it. There is still very good people there who deal with russian and who are experts in russia. But its drastically shrunk from what it was. And i think now that russia is seen as much more of a threat over the last couple of years, particularly because of its activity military activities in ukraine, is that there will be some respectificati firectif thereby more effort and more personnel devoted to trying to understand russia. Did you have something . Just really quickly, you know it takes time and as mark said, if you focus on it now, it takes years to develop expertise and if you are talking about human intelligence penetrating russia and putins inner circle so it will take a while. Even if theyre doing it now. Thank you very much, thank you for coming. Please
The full soviet period but are predominantly about the 70s and early 80s. There is relatively little there about the stalin period. There are a few very interesting things, but much less about the stalin period than i had thought there might be. There is also a good deal less about the 50s and early 60s. As you move into the 60s, it increases, but particularly as in the the large majority of it deals with the 70s and early 80s. So you can find very important things there. Alexander vassiliev is another former kgb foreign Intelligence Officer. He was working on a project for the book that came out as haunted wood, which was coauthored he and the late Allen Weinstein coauthored. It came out i think in 1997 or 98. That book dealt with soviet espionage in the United States during the stalin era. And that book also was able to deal with only a very small portion of what vassiliev actually transcribed. He was allowed to work in a room where archivisted from the foreign intelligence archive b
I thought, wouldnt it be a great idea if i could persuade a new york publisher to pay me a certain amount of money to go back and get drunk 23 times every year . And it worked. Unfortunately, i had to ask a write a book at the end of it. I want to read you a quick quote. I dont want this to be too much of a slideshow. I was fortunate in finding some remarkable images given to me by the last living hero of my book, Phillip Jackson, who is 89 years old today. You will see some images of him later. A quicko just read you section, a short section. I hate reading from books because people always fall asleep. This is really the theme of the book. It is by a very distinguished and brave french man. There were many. We lived in shadows as soldiers of the night, but our lives were not dark. There were arrests, torture, and death for so many of our friends and comrades, and tragedy awaited all of us just around the corner. We did not live in or with tragedy. We were exhilarated by the challenge
Arose . Against war in favor of peace. Listen to the lucid words of a great man, the late john kennedy, who declared four years ago mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind. Many words are not needed to proclaim this loftiest of all the aims of this institution. It suffices to remember that the blood of millions of men that numberless and unheard of sufferings, useless slaughter, frightful ruin, the sanction of the pact which unites us with an oath which must change these future history of the world, no more war, never again war, peace. It is peace which must guide the destinies of peoples and of all mankind. Pope jeanpaul ii served from 1978 until his death in 2005, the second longest in modern history up next, American History tv looks back to 1979 when the new york city and addressed the United Nations general assembly. I hope that all the nations, even the smallest, even those that do not yet new york city and those that have oy full been forcibly robbed of