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TORONTO and WASHINGTON, March 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ - Sara Charney, Chair of the Lionel Gelber Prize Board, announces the shortlist for the 2021 Lionel Gelber Prize:
Killer High: A History of War in Six Drugs by Peter Andreas
Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism by Anne Applebaum
Trade Wars are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace by Matthew C. Klein and Michael Pettis
Isolationism: A History of America s Efforts to Shield Itself from the World by Charles A. Kupchan
War: How Conflict Shaped Us by Margaret MacMillan These five books tell powerful stories about war, democracy, and inequality, three of the biggest challenges of our rapidly changing world. All deeply researched and argued, they signal that the world that we are going towards is very different than the world we left behind, said Sara Charney, Chair of the Lionel Gelber Prize Board.
President Biden sought to turn the page on the Trump administration s "America First" ethos in a speech to the Munich Security Conference where he tried to repair frayed ties with European allies.
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President Biden speaks from the East Room of the White House to virtually address the Munich Security Conference in Germany on Friday.
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President Biden on Friday sought to turn the page on former President Donald Trump s America First ethos, declaring America is back and vowing to rebuild trust with European allies by working on challenges like arms control, COVID-19 and climate change.
It was Biden s first speech since taking office aimed at an international audience. He spoke from the White House to a virtual crowd at the Munich Security Conference a who s who of global national security officials who he has met with many times in person over his decades in public life.
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