Cspan. Org coronavirus. [background sounds]. Good morning everyone. More people are expected to arrive but i think i saw Michael Waller come i dont know where he is, hes in the back now. He is becoming shy. Is the Wilson Centers supporter best supporter of the planet predict and we are giving him a name tag. But welcome michael and welcome everyone else. I am jane harman, president ceo of the wilsonso center. It is the best job on the planet because i get to talk to geniuses every single day. One of them it was not in my script, she will hide somewhere is make king. Some may nothe know her but she runs our Science Technology Innovation Program and is responsible for the schools we have on fridays to teach capitol hill staff about cyber and Artificial Intelligence and today genius, that would be van buchanan is our go to guy and teach some of the schools. Lsben buchanan. And hes beeno trying to teach e for a while and think i have been the repeater of all time that some of those schools
Cyber and Artificial Intelligence and two days genius, that would be ben buchanan as our go two guy. Ive been the repeater at one of the schools. Im getting it but i have an analog brain and i thank him for his patients. He is a global fellow and he will discuss his latest book right now called the hacker and the state. Spoiler alert, theyve changed the world. How . He says Cyber Operations are now indelibly part of International Relations and the gap between the United States and other countries has narrowed considerably. From north koreas efforts to hack for cash a Million Dollars worth against the bank of bangladesh to be maligned activity for disinformation to the electric blackouts in ukraine, theres plenty to talk about. Hes a marshall scholar and received his phd from Kings College and he knows everything. Even more important for as a former member of congress, that would be me who try to ensure the Technical Intelligence collection tools were not cumbersome were legal and regul
Juncture point in how the United States as people thought about political islam, the nation of iran, and lets be honest, how they think about us. There were two powerful movements in iran, both of which worried the United States, but one more than the other. There was a communist insurgency in iran. We worried a lot about that. We sided the shah of iran in part because he crushed that communist dissent in iran. I dont think most american political elites thought too much about the islamic dissidents in that state. It was kind of off our radar. Part of the reason i wrote the book i did called taken hostage which i was trying to get across how reasonably so but narrowly slow americans tended to look at our alliances in that part of the world. We didnt think of islam as a political force. We feared communism. We cheered on what we thought as capitalist development. We think didnt see the green revolution that was coming. The United States and iran have had a complicated relationship for a
Insurgentsy within iran, the soviet union was trying to foster a communist insurgents in iran. We thought about that and sided with the shah of iran in part because he crushed that communist dissent in iran. I dont think most person political elites thought too much about the islamic disdents in that state. It was just kind of off the radar. Part of the reason i wrote the book i did was i was really trying to get across how reasonably so but nair rowly americans looked at alliances in that part of the world. We didnt think of islam as a political force. We feared communism. We cheered on what we thought as capitalist developed. We hoped for Democratic Development we didnt see the islamic, the green revolution that was coming. The United States and iran have had a complicated fraught relationship a long time. Really since the 1950s. Up until the 1950ss iran was a client state of great britain. But when wourmd ended and britain moved back to the colonial periphery. United states stepped
It. Here at busboys, we like to have conversations that others are not having, and this is one of them. I would like to give you an overview. If you have cell phones, please take photos but dont make the flash happen. We are filming tonight, as you can see, and that is distracting. We will have the book for sale. We have them or sale currently. If you want to, i employ you to look through it and have alan sign it. We have a wonderful server who will be here all night, so please take care of her as she will take care of you. I will now turn it on over to alan for the top of ghosts of Sheridan Circle for the talk of ghosts of Sheridan Circle. Dr. Mcpherson thank you very much, olivia. Thank you to busboys and poets for hosting this. I want to thank my publisher for putting this together, the few institutions, also, who made this happen in washington. Im so happy to be presenting this in washington, which is literally the scene of this crime. The institute for policy studies is very impor