Regional power and president xi jinpings leadership. Good morning. My name is bruce jones. Im the Vice President and the director for Foreign Policy here at brookington. Its my pleasure to welcome you this morning. I see lots of old friends in the audience and several new ones and its a pleasure to invite you to our event with the assistant secretary of defense for endopacific affairs, randall shriver. Weve been fortunate to engage him on several aspects of policy research over the past decade, and while hes been serving in the Administration Since 2017, and randy, thank you for your service to our country and the Important Role you play in this administration. Randall shriver was appointed as assistant secretary of defense by President Donald Trump on january 8th, 2018. Previously having served as Deputy Assistant secretary for east asian and pacific affairs, under which portfolio he covered china, tie won, hong kong and australia, all the easy stuff. Earlier he held the role of chief
What they saw in America Alexis de tocqueville, max weber, g. K. Chesterton and sayyid qutb. I especially look forward to this discussion as dr. Nolans insights will help us wrap up a yearlong study at the Mcconnell Center on American Political Culture inspired by toekvilles democracy in america. He holds a masters in doctoral degrees from the university of virginia. His teaching and Research Interests fall within the general areas of law and society, culture, technology and social change and historical comparative sociology. He is the recipient of several grants and awards including the National Endowments for the humanities fellow ships and a full bright scholarship. We look forward to dr. Williams pardon, dr. Nolans engaging discussion this evening on dark strands and bright threads what they is a new america. Dr. Nolan has agreed to take questions from the audience following his remarks. Please wait for one of our mcconnell scholars to bring you the microphone when youre asking you
At williams college. Dr. Nolan is the author of several books including what we are here to discuss this evening what they saw in America Alexis de tocqueville, max weber, g. K. Chesterton and sayyid qutb. I especially look forward to this discussion as dr. Nolans insights will help us wrap up a yearlong study at the Mcconnell Center on American Political Culture inspired by tocquevilles democracy in america. Dr. Nolan holds an undergraduate degree from the university of virginia. His teaching and Research Interests fall within the general areas of law and society, culture, technology and social change and historical comparative sociology. He is the recipient of several grants and awards including the National Endowments for the humanities fellowships and a full bright scholarship. We look forward to dr. Williams pardon, dr. Nolans engaging discussion this evening on dark strands and bright threads, what they saw in america. Dr. Nolan has agreed to take questions from the audience foll
Year scholars, it is honor for me to serve as the mc for this program tonight. Our guest this evening is dr. James nolan, 1859 professor at williams college. He is author of several books, one what they saw in america, alexis detotfil, chester ton. I especially look forward to this discussion as dr. Nolans insights will help us wrap up the year long study on American Political Culture inspired by totevilles america, uc california days and degrees from university of virginia. His Research Fall in the general areas of law and society, culture, technology and social change and historical comparei sociology. He is the recipient of several grants and awards, for the humanities scholarship and full bright scholarship. We acknowledge dark strands and bright threads. Dr. Nolan has agreed to take questions from the audience following his remarks, so please wait for one of our scholars to bring you the microphone before you ask your question. I now invite you to please join me in inviting dr. No
It. Watch book tv on cspan2 and find a full schedule or watch online anytime on booktv. Org. Weekends on cspan2 are an intellectual feast. Every saturday documenting americas stories. Book tv brings you the latest in nonfiction books and authors. Funding for cspan2 comes from these Television Companies and more including comcast. Comcast is partnering from a thousand community centers. Getting the tools they need to be ready for anything. Supporting cspan2 is a public service. It was going to be june. Keep an eye out for that. Working on something with boomers is a fun fest. Lets just start here. As much as you can preview your book ande what you are thinking about. If i were ever to articulate an issue on why there is this realignment happening, i think anyone would come back to this idea of policy. That would be the first one. What is your response to what that happened. Going down over the past three or four years. We will have to start there. One of the disturbing things about the