Are doing here and why we are doing it, this is part of an ongoing series sponsored by the center that historical current issues. The center itself is strictly nonpartisan and the purpose of the program its not to advocate for any particular policies, but to provide Historical Context helping inform policymakers as they deal with difficult issues. I want to thank or acknowledge the Financial Support of the mellon foundation, which makes this briefing possible. I also want to thank regional weekly in the back of the room, which is the assistant director that helped organize this. I want to thank the office of gerry connolly, and also alert you to the fact that you all have index cards on your chairs. This is for questions. As the presenters are speaking, feel free to jot down questions. We will collect them. The second half will be devoted to q a. We will collect the questions and go from there. Thank you all for coming. David . Good morning. Thank you for coming. I have been Teaching I
Circle. Reported 1000. 608. Attentional units, tear gas is now being used in the area of 34th and prospect northwest. [whistles] dupont circle. Any unit in the area, officer response. [sirens] 607, you have it. 619. We have another large group. I dupont circle. [sirens] [whistles] large group at 34th and prospect. Large group at 34th and prospect. Singing] we and going to study war no more. [chanting] the whole world is watching. The whole world is watching. The whole world is watching. The whole world is watching. Narrator this was the spring offensive, the mobilization of masses of people at a given time and place attracts worldwide News Coverage and attention. For the protest organizer, inciter and promoter, it is a vital and necessary tactic. On april 24, 1971, the National Peace action coalition, supported by welfare rights groups, labor unions, and others, held a massive demonstration in washington dc. Some 175,000 people from all walks of life, with differing ideologies and purp
Why are we not finding better ways of treating cancer . Sunday night at 8 00 eastern on cspans q a. Next author petra goedde , talked about her book, the politics of peace a global cold war history. She explored the emerging politics of peace during the early years of the cold war. The Woodrow Wilson center the National History Center Hosted this event. Thank you. I am delighted to see so many of series to welcome to our fromsor petra goedde temple university. She is a professor in the history of globalization. She is a coeditor of one of the most important journals in the field, dip the medic history. Diplomatic history. Her publications include gis and germans, culture, gender and foreign relations, 19451949. And now, the politics of peace a global cold war history. She had it published by oxford this year. It is based on this book that she will be speaking to us today. She has also coedited two books, the human rights revolution, oxford 2012. And the oxford handbook of the cold war,
The relentless campaign promoting the inevitability of a direct war with Russia is proceeding without challenge. That does not mean that war could erupt at any moment, or it could never happen. First, war is not based on a timetable. Second, war has no deterministic quality of any sort it can be avoided. Third, but most
New titles by Michael Green, Francis Fukuyama, Gideon Rachman, Akira Iriye & Petra Goedde, Bates Gill, Aaron L. Friedberg, Sergei Guriev & Daniel Treisman, Abby Seiff, Katie Stallard, Joseph Torigian, Vipin Narang and Xiaobing Li.