[inaudible conversations] i think we ll get started. i want to thank julia before i introduce her for allowing me to say a few words. welcome to the new school. welcome to one of the featured events of the center for capitalism studies. for a couple years if taught a course another eugene lang college on understanding global capitalism, and the first day we would come in and everyone had to look at the tag of the shirt to the person to their left and tell us what country that shirt was made in. so that what s first thing we did in understanding global capitalism and we would write the names of the countries on the board, and i it was invariably 25 countries. actually remarkable in the post multifiber arrangement era that the production is still quite diversified but what we learned by looking at cotton shirts in that case was about globalization of production. we learned about the modern structure of the modern corporation, about branding in fashion design, the relation b
it is a pleasure to be back here in this room where i might mention that 17 years ago in january 1997, a charity meeting that was open who is today president of the american university in cairo. a meeting where we had a dialogue with the first individuals who came to the united states from the taliban, it came to new york about three or four months after they kept taking control to ask the united nations to give them afghanistan s u.n. seat. of course not really about was not in the power of the u.n. secretary general. i make mention of the people who were there, the delegation was led by, a gentleman to get later became the foreign minister and he is one of the reconciled of the taliban. and he was interned for some time. and he is currently of the afghan eyepiece counsel and also reconciled. this includes one of the individuals from to hire, who is the minister of refugees and assassinated a few weeks ago after returning from a confidential meeting in dubai, trying to sta
and now on booktv, peter andreas talks about the long history of smuggling in the u.s. which, prior to the revolutionary war, was driven by a desire to grow domestic industries and bypass paying import taxes to the british. it s about an hour and a half. good afternoon and welcome, everyone, to the watson institute for international studies for the discussion of peter andreas new book, smuggler nation. housekeeping, i have to mention some things. the way we re going to run this is as follows, peter is going to get up and talk briefly about the book because, obviously, if he doesn t say anything, this will become a stunningly one-way conversation. after this, i will invite katherine, richard and james to say their piece on the book, and hopefully we can get into a good discussion. at that point we will open up for q&a, and you will see there is one fixed microphone there, and there is another mobile microphone for this side of the house. if you wish to join the q&a, ple
after that we will open up for q&a. you will see one fixed microphone there and another vocal microphone for the site of the house. if you wish to join q&a, get up and stand behind the microphone. we have to do it this way because they are so mobile is for recording c-span and we do want your questions and answers to be an integral part of this broadcast. so there we go. without further ado, i ll begin my brief introduction. so here s the book. there we go. for those of you who know peter, you know this is unusual. peter tends to write short books. you think to yourself, this is serious. i m not going to get into the details. i m going to see general things about the book at the first one is this book marks peter andreas thugs at because it s well-written and is actually enjoyable. it s quite readable and clear and utterly devoid of jargon and it contains a powerful political message. the second reason to like this book is that it is not devoid of theoretical hats, pretension
Orientation Why study crowds, masses and movements? It is tempting to imagine that as socialists we must know a great deal about crowds, masses, and in medieval thought individual meant inseparable, that is indivisible. People were defined as individuals by reference to the groups of which they were members. Group membership defined their very identity