Argentinas economic crisis demands growth for the government to declare a food about 6. And protest is attempt to shut down europes biggest travel opt in for lampel i decline to assist me of 20 drugs. And it was all in the lets do business european shares they headed for their full week of gains the European Central banks decisions you dont get aggressive round of stimulus is easing investors worries about a global slowdown stocks in asia followed european and american markets have reacted positively to the announcement saying and nikkei both ending up also helped by him the thor and us china trade relations the city president mario draghi declared a return to quantitative easing for an indefinite time period and the lowering of the main Interest Rate deep into negative territory. I asked africa correspondent susan if its likely the european decision will have reputations on the other side of the atlantic. As early as next week the Federal Reserve is expected by many on the Financial M
Mississippi communities counsel. We have anybody from the Advisory Board . Thank you. Also partner who just recently retired from congress from the mississippis third district. Thank you. [applause] our moderator for this session is a visiting professor of english and at the university of mississippi. The former editor of the quarterly review and author of two memoirs. Introduced our distinguished panelists. [applause] thank you all for joining us this afternoon. If i were to retitle this panel, i would call it family memory history and civil rights. Our analyst books all deal with those subjects. I want to quote from one of our panelists books books of history often help us we reach the present by explaining how people solve or failed to solve problems. Thats what all of these books really got is how we solve or fail to solve problems. His personal connection to the books that each of our panelists have they are going to, we will talk about this but first, let me introduce our panelis
Captioning performed by vitac as a service to the washington community. Details on how to donate and details on future programming are on the back of the flier that was available outside. Let me also thank a couple of individuals who behind the scenes kind of put this event together, jeff reeger, assistant director of the National History center. Over there. Pete all the way in the back on my team and our two interns, kyle nichols and su yan kim who you will be meeting during the q a, they will be running the mics for which we ask you to please wait and then once you are called on, please at the same time state your name and affiliation. Let me welcome Professor William roger lewis from texas who is joining us here today and remind all of you finally to turn off your mobile devices or silence them so you dont interrupt the intense discussion that we will be asking here this afternoon. With that i will turn it over to eric to introduce our featured speaker today. Thank you, christian. W
Democracy the United States and japan. The Wilson Center and National History center cohosted this discussion. Its about 90 minutes. All right. I think well get started. Its 4 00 on a monday afternoon, which means its time for the washington history seminar. Welcome, everyone, to the Wilson Center. Welcome to this installment of the washington history seminar. Im christian oserman. I have the privilege of cochairing the seminar with professor eric arnesen from George Washington university. Im dlielighted to see so many you here on this beautiful afternoon. We will have cspan taping the event today, so for those welcome to all of those who are viewing us at home. And i suggest you visit our website to learn more about the seminar and upcoming speakers. Both the National History center and the Wilson Center websites have information on this series. The washington history seminar, of course, is, as those of you who are regulars know, a collaborative effort of two organizations, the Wilson
Militaries would attack each other in cyber war, we said infrastructure will become part of the target set and there can be large damage and destruction. Not just information damage. At the time we are criticized to integrate review that said file under fiction. So i think at one time robin i decided to write the book that we were right but we also wanted to say, what has changed in the ten years and while we were right about something, we were wrong about others. Yes the militaries have become the dominant threat and if you look at the major attacks in the last three years of all the military, arena, north korea, chinese, russia, america if you look at the target they are going after every structure and just last month the United States more or less submitted they penetrated the power grid claiming they had done it to us. It is destruction if you look at the attack, the largest destructive attack over 10 billion worth of damage, it is wiped out networks to not just attack them and sti