it will give us a sense of how many questions are out there. we would like to accommodate as many of you as possible. first up, dr. simon miles, the author of the book. he is assistant professor in the sanford school of public policy at duke university. he has published research into diplomatic history, diplomacy, and statecraft. he is the author of the book we will be talking about today, engaging the evil empire. he holds a phd. he will talk about his book. we will introduce our distinguished commentators afterwards. simon, to you. simon: thank you so much. it s a real pleasure to be here. especially here as so much of the historical scholarship that really got me excited about history, that is probably the reason i am a historian, and i will leave it up to the audience to decide if that s for better or worse. all the work that was being done by those who went before me, it s a real treat to be here with you, especially with mary and elizabeth giving some comments, to whi
the conversation to which we 30 to all of you will be 40 minutes. feel free to use the raise hand to wee ity or email start raising your hands if you us agot a question to give sense of how many questions are out there. first up will be dr. simon miles, the author of the book. simon is assistant professor at the sanford school of public policy at duke university. he is a historian of the cold war. in the journald of cold war studies. he is of course the author of the book we will be talking about today, engaging the evil empire, his first book. he holds a phd in history from the university of texas austin and he will talk afterwards we introduce our distinguished commentators. thank you, eric. it is a pleasure to be here as so much of the historical scholarship that really got me excited about history is probably the reason i am a historian and i will leave it up to the audience to decide whether that is for better or for worse. it was so closely associated all the cold wa
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good evening, everyone. whether you re joining us in the room here and a lot of you are, or you re joining us online, thank you for being here for our smart women, smart power event tonight. we re delighted that seven ambassadors currently representing their countries here in washington can join us for a look at the view of the u.s. from abroad. as you may have noticed they happen to all be female ambassadors, a subset of those representing their countries here in washington. before we begin, i ll get to introducing the ambassadors in a few moments. first i want to give you a few social media reminders. we hope you re following us on twitter @smart women. there should have been handouts with all the ambassadors twitter handles. if you re live tweeting use the #tag csi live. we have a smart women podcast with our smart women events. we hope you re following those, as well. our smart women smart power speaker series wouldn t be possible without the support of citi. thank you v