I want to welcome you all to todays meeting on u. S. Turkish relations, the shifting nation unto alex. Im currently the director of the International Security director at george mason university. Its a great pleasure to reside over todays discussion on a topic i think is particularly compelling. In a world where we write love letters to authoritarians and we publicly disparage our allies is kind of interesting to think where does the u. S. Turkish relations it in the spectrum from how we treat allies and authoritarians. It seems to fit into every category or maybe none and were going to try to figure out how special is the case of u. S. Turkish relations. Its at the motionless relationship one with the executive branch does not always ci to eye. Is it fundamentally Security Partnership or do we have a stake in the democratic standing and if turkey is questioning and involving with moscow what should the United States to prove this is brought out even mentioning into Northern Syria in t
Letters to authoritarians and we publicly disparage our allies is kind of interesting to think where does the u. S. Turkish relations it in the spectrum from how we treat allies and authoritarians. It seems to fit into every category or maybe none and were going to try to figure out how special is the case of u. S. Turkish relations. Its at the motionless relationship one with the executive branch does not always ci to eye. Is it fundamentally Security Partnership or do we have a stake in the democratic standing and if turkey is questioning and involving with moscow what should the United States to prove this is brought out even mentioning into Northern Syria in the decision by the United States to withdraw troops from Northern Syria. There is just a lot going on in the u. S. Turkish relationship and im delighted we have three such excellent speakers to join us and try to make sense of this. The professor of International Relations at Lehigh University where he served for over a decade
Check the book fairs tab on our web site, booktv. Org. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the council on Foreign Relations. Its a pleasure to have George Packer here for the somewhat be a late launch of the issue on forever affairs. Most of you know georges byline very well. You probably know his most recent books, the assassins the most important chronicle of the early years of the iraq war, the unwinding which won the National Book award in 2014 13 and now his new book, our man, rich holbrooke and the end of the american century. We were thrilled to have an excerpt of it in Foreign Affairs in this issue, focusing on vietnam and afghanistan which we will talk about in the course of this conversation. I recommend the peace hartley to all consecutive you nose at a substitute nor book but as a teaser. Im confident if you read the 8,000 word inside Foreign Affairs youll read the entire a 500 or so pages in the hard cover edition. It is a really extraordinary and fascinating book. Both as
And im sure most of you know georges byline very wellin the atlantic now and new yorker before that for a decade or two. Fifteen years. You probably know his most recent book the assassins is the most important chronicle of the early years of the iraq war, the unwinding which won the National Book award in 2014 2030. And now his new book, our man we were thrilled to have an expert in Foreign Affairs in this issue and focusing on two pieces of the book of enoch and afghanistan which we will talk about in the course of this conversation but i recommend the piece heartily not as a substitute for the book but as a teaser. Im confident if you read the 8000 words in Foreign Affairs will go on to read the entire 500 or so pages in the hardcover edition. It is a really extraordinary fascinating book. Both as a chronicle of an infection on American Foreign policy and diplomacy and war over the half century or so in which Richard Holbrook was a central player but also in its portrait of this ind
Newshour, meeting with senator mark warner, who needs no introduction, chairman of the Senate Committee on intelligence. Ill be presiding over this discussion. Kenneth a moscow lecture. This is an annual lectureship that honors the memory of kenneth a. Moscow, longtime member of the council with a distinguished career in the Intelligence Community. Further details on his life and many professional accomplishments can be found in the booklet that you have at your seat. I do want to extend a special welcome to the members and guests of the moscow family who are here with us today, seated at the center table. Welcome to you. So, without further ado, ill just say i will invite senator warner. He will speak for about ten minutes, then ill have the opportunity to ask him questions for about 20 minutes and then at 1 00, we will open it up for questions for members. Without further ado, senator mark warner. Thank you for that introduction, judy. Looking forward to our discussion. That is, abou