Good evening, everyone. My name is betsy atkins. On behalf of harvard bookstore, id like to welcome you to cambridge public library. Im extremely pleased to have Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt with us. Please check out more Upcoming Library programming and be sure to join our email list to learn about the event series, and please visit us online at harvard. Com events. Id also like to thank tonights cosponsor, mass humanities supporting programs that use history, literature, philosophy and the other disciplines to enhance and improve civic life for the people of massachusetts. Learn more at masscommunities. Org. Tonights talk will conclude with time for your questions. Please note that this talk is being recorded by cspan, and during q a your questions will be recorded. To ask a question, please come to the mic at the front of this aisle to my left. Following q a, there will be a book signing here on stage. The signing line will form down the aisle to my right, the end of which may
Campaign hama jump jim has the latest. Just days after he announced his candidacy in his countrys upcoming president ial elections egypts military has arrested former Egyptian Armed forces chief of staff sami annan. In a televised statement the military said imam committed violations when he announced his president ial bid without obtaining permits from the armed forces hes also accused of committing forgery to be included in the voter database there are two explanations for this one is that he actually miscalculated the level of support that he has within the minute any institution and within the security interests so within the pollen institutions the second one is he actually did not mistaken a decision he expected to step and this is not the end of the story you probably see something a count of the action on his part or the part of his loyalists so its still too early to tell im not announced his intention to run hours after current president of the fatah has sisi declared his pla
Start of a military crackdown last year it comes as new evidence emerges that man mas military is using gang rape as part of an Ethnic Cleansing Campaign stratford reports on could to prolong refugee camp in bangladesh. The sisters fifteen and seventeen years old samia me soldiers tied them to trees and gang raped them the eldest Sister Sister lost consciousness was the second man began to brutalize or. Me surrounded our house she says my sister and i were in the bathroom the soldiers burst in and drank this outside seven men raped me. She says passers by found them unconscious and still tied to the trees. It was difficult to walk she says but they helped us it took us fifteen days to walk to the bangladesh border. Rights groups say that the myanmar army used gang rape as part of its Ethnic Cleansing Campaign that killed thousands of people and destroyed their homes in Rakhine State they also say that myanmars Case Highlights massive floors in the International Criminal Justice System
Counsel of the department of Homeland Security commented on the fact Homeland Security is a discipline and we see this in our law schools and undergraduate schools around the country were Homeland Security is taught today and we will be holding not on a penal josh will be moderating later. Celebrations and anniversaries come in 10 year intervals. Youre part of History Today with this 10th year program. The program really had its genesis to serving the general counsels office many years ago. So it is only appropriate today introduced the keynote speaker who is the current general counsel of the department of Homeland Security. The bible is the current general counsel and has served with distinction they are the last many years. Hes the chief legal officer of the department of Homeland Security and see if i lost track of how Many Employers you actually supervise, but it is probably somewhere in the vicinity of 1800 lawyers. I recall as many as 600 lawyers are sure the wash d. C. Area. I
Debating afghanistan. We are looking at the u. S. Strategy Going Forward to. This is just getting underway. They typically include the al qaeda and other terrorist groups , strengthening the government and security horses, preventing the taliban from taking clinical power. Assessments of our progress to date are mixed. Stated we aretis not winning in afghanistan right now. One could say its not for a lack of effort. The estimates of what we haves and range from 840 billion to over 2 trillion. Report by the Inspector General or afghan reconstruction 70d the u. S. Has spent billion to train Security Forces , that had been hampered by corruption and inadequate oversight and the government is struggling to defeat the taliban. Control the percent of the country. In august, there will be a moderate troop surge. Were leery of war without very victory. Unwilling tos seem lock away, but will number are reluctant to continue the war in definitely. Strategy reflects the public mood. There is a ti