host: here is the cover of the book. this is book to be on c-span to. we want to hear from you, post your your feedback on your facebook wall, facebook.com/book tv. [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] good afternoon and welcome to the new school. i am robert, i am the dean. i m sorry should not be touching this. i am feisty and at the new school for research. i am delighted to welcome back to the university, to dear friends and distinguished colleagues. both former members of the politics department. courtney young and moeller who left us about a decade ago for greener or perhaps milk your pastures to canada and new mexico respectively. i am pleased to introduce courtney young his new book, collectivism and how feminist the fundamental list of physicians and politician make big business and bad policy. we re here to celebrate, the book was published last month in november by basic books. courtney is a professor of political science at the unive
lifetime e a took place a lifetime ago. and it s collapse seems so unimaginable. if i can indulge you for a second, the year before the collapse, i had organized a conference. withe was more associated the cold war. some of you were there. of talk aboutt the integration of europe. , knownial the soviet was talking about the reunification of germany. off desk also the time john and bill had begun their series on soviet-american relations, the first time soviet-american scholars got together. scott armstrong had just come up with the idea of a national security archive. but the end of the cold war? not a chance and no discussion. notequently, one is remarkable, what is now much closer now than we were then, by reaching a consensus regarding events in germany, and then of course, there aftermath. these questions concerned the drivers, whether they be individual, state, or international. these questions concerned consequences, whether they be international, state, or indiv
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under two hours. welcome, everyone. it is wonderful to see you all plenary session to commemorate the fall of the berlin wall. honor and pleasure to the chair and moderator. us have beenwho meetings for four more, it s aen little short of remarkable that we re marking 25 years since the fall of the berlin wall. the remarkable because on one hand, we can recall that event so vividly but on the other hand, it is sometimes it seems like it took place a lifetime ago. remarkable because ourthose of us who pursued degrees and published our first books during the proceeding in some case before the construction of the wall. [laughter] seemed sose unimaginable. indulge you, can session with him and no one was more associated with the cold war. there were lots of talk about the integration of europe, the but no one thinking, was talking about the reunification of germany. also the time that john series of the conferences on soviet relations. soviet andthat american scholars got toge