As choosing the option that said we would like a twostate solution so we can go on building our own oil or neighbors build their own. Its actually worse numbers that have appeared in similar polls in other years. Sometimes its been more 50 50 that even 50 50 isnt enough. There has to be a consensus on the palestinian side. It doesnt have to be 100 . There has to be a consensus that they will go for permanent peace. Permanent peace also means policing. If there is a palestinian state than you can allow it to be a base for attacks on neighboring states. Rather than look for blame in some day today in every action on the diplomatic front or on the settlement building front or on the military front that the essential question is who wants peace and he wants fighting . On that question, its pretty clear that the blame is today as it has been since the conflict began on one side. Thank you and with that can i ask members of the audience to join me in thanking joshua muravchik. [applause] he
Our authors who are agreeing to participate in this reflection on the book and where the arab world is now in the wake of this publication and in the wake of all of the developments of the last three plus years. Im going to briefly introduce our speakers. They will speak each for about 10 minutes in the order that i want to reduce them. I may ask them a few more questions and try and get them to fight with one another intellectually. Then we will have plenty of time for you to pose your questions or challenges to them and to all of us. Dan brumberg is one of our oldest in terms of longestserving partners in the journal of democracy. In fact he joined our editorial at an early stage of his career. And its been very influential in shaping our coverage of the Political Developments related to the arab world and associate professor of government and codirector of the program of democracy and government at georgetown university. He also serves as a special adviser with the institute of peac
Didnt. Now when we think about transitions i think we think about the transition. On. I still think its in many respects still an important intellectual theoretical contribution that the paradigm assumed that democratization would emerge not because people are committed to democracy but because people were using democratic rules as a mechanism of conflict resolution the notion of democracy without democrats but there was no basic identity area the extent to which heres the paradox. The authors of the paradigm are correct. You need some sort of political bargain to make a transition but its particularly difficult difficult to have a path in the struggle is not over economic and social issues explicitly but over identity. How do you bargain with identity issues . Its much more difficult than dealing with rates of inflation and so on if you compare the struggle for a pact in brazil would say to egypt. The polls were not trying to figure out their national identity. The question therefore
Transplants and also deceased kidney transplants. So, you know, theyre learning from us. Now the question is will we learn from them . Time. Okay. Thank you all for coming. Ill be over here signing books. [applause] if you would like one. [applause] on behalf of the public library, thank you again for coming, and thank you to all of you for coming and for your great questions. For more information on this system, please visit the d. C. Public library web site. Have great night. [applause] [inaudible conversations] wed like to hear from you. Tweet us your feedback, twitter. Com booktv. Larry diamond and marc plattner, the editors of democratization and authoritarianism in the arab world, along with book contributors talk about the promise of democratization in the middle east after the arab spring and the eventual backlash that took place in egypt and elsewhere. This is about an hour and 45 minutes. Good afternoon. Im marc plattner, the editor of journal of democracy and the Vice Presid
Researched and engagingly her own ccount of family, which is not always an easy thing to do. And i want to start with some specific questions and then read a couple of things. Then therell be a little socialist jeopardy to keep her going. But well start with why this book now. A story about an american a time at war and a time when the country was going cultural me Major Political economic and social upheaval. In the federal government was going to the post office. Our years later, that was in 1914. 1917 happens, the United States sprs the war. Men are millions of being drafted. Their s of men see government working in and women too, see the government in a much different light. Were forced to reckon with questions about what a obligation to his country is. What a brothers obligation to another brother. What sons and daughters obligations to their parents are hasnt, you just know, 20 years before. Of course, these questions just arise, you know, in a day. Hey were planted in the few de