And phd in philosophy at princeton. He has written more than 20 books and has edited 13. He is best known for his classics race matters and democracy matters and his memoir brother west, living and loving out loud. He appears frequently on the colbert report, cnn and cspan, and he also made his film debut in the matrix, and he was a commentator on the official trilogy released in 2004. Dr. Ck prophetic fire, with christa book, buschendorf presents a perspective on six africanamerican leaders dubois, martin. Luther king jr. , ellen baker, malcolm x and otto barnett. Examine the impact of these men and women within these passionate advocates but also their fault lines, providing new insights that humanize all of these wellknown actors, west ines an important step rekindling the black prophetic fire so essential in the age of obama. Helene atwan has been director of the beacon press since october of 1995. She holds a masters degree in English Literature from the university of virginia. Sh
Two very happy to introduce special guests. Dr. Cornell west is a provocative democratic intellectual. At princetonssor university. He also taught at yell, harvard, and its university of paris. He graduated magna cum laude from harvard and philosophy at princeton. He has edited 13 books. Racebest known for matters, democracy matters. Theppears frequently on colbert report, cnn, and cspan. He also in the matrix. His latest book would with a distinguished scholar, bush and dorf, Frederick Douglass, jr. , malcolm king and otto barnett. Examine the impact of these men and women within these passionate advocates but also their fault lines, providing new insights that humanize all of these wellknown actors, west takes an important step in rekindling the black prophetic fire so essential in the age of obama. Helene atwan has been director of the beacon press since october of 1995. She holds a masters degree in English Literature from the university of virginia. She began her career in publish
Of a diplomat is a sell them to solve a problem. You occasionally get the opportunity to negotiate an arms agreement that solves a part of the program, but even all of the arms control agreements between the u. S. And the soviet union never ended the tensions between the two systems, the two peoples, the different senses of ambition. We manage to we manage situations so they do not get out of hand. It is hard to define complete and total success when you are looking mostly at keeping the status quo or a slightly improved status quo. And it is hard to give credit for things that happen because people say they whether not happen anyway. It seemsthe jcpoa to me to have been a pragmatic attempt by the Obama Administration to deal with one of the Serious Problems of the iranian threat a potential nuclear program. It did not deal with proxies, Ballistic Missiles, it did not touch on religious minorities, things that people may have wanted to see included in the deal because the Obama Adminis
On Foreign Relations hosted the hourlong event, which covered regional security. Venezuelas oil reserves, u. S. Policy options, and irans influence in the country. Stephen thank you for being here today. Id like to start by saying i am from Mccarty Associates and will be presiding over todays meeting. Id like to introduce our panel. You got their full or partial bios in your packets, but Cynthia Arnson from the wilson center, the ambassador who has been in more countries than i can count including venezuela and colombia. We also have the former ambassador who has a long history in diplomacy. And almost the first diplomat in history to be expelled twice from the same country, but didnt quite make it. I tried. And francisco rodriguez, who has a long career in economics. Id like to just start by asking a general question and ask each of you in the same order i presented you, your view on things. Venezuela, the situation has deteriorated dramatically and even longer. Where do you see the s
Thank you. We have to recognize the Senior Member here. It is a treat to welcome former colleagues, current colleagues, ive worked with ever member of this panel in some form of another inside and outside of government. Its a treat to welcome everyone here on behalf of the law and security that i am privileged to serve as a distinguished senior fellow at. Welcome to this program and welcome to my colleagues. This is a treat for me to be joined with you to talk about a really important and timely subject, the issue of National Security and how the executive branch and the legislative branch address some of the most Critical Issues of our time and i will do some very brief introductions in a minute, but you will understand the theme here is every single one of these distinguished Public Servants, served in the executive branch in the National Security community and the searching topic for today is how has that service informed your view as legislators and how can we be best poised from b