Alitto Witnesses China's Rise First-Hand
He was there from the start, sitting near President Nixon as the chief interpreter for Chinese delegations first visiting the United States in 1972. Since then he has often traveled with Chinese delegations as their interpreter and was called upon to i...
Prescription for Survival: A Doctor's Journey to End Nuclear Madness
Physician, author, and Nobel Prize-winning peace activist Bernard Lown will discuss his new memoir, Prescription for Survival: A Doctor's Journey to End Nuclear Madness. The inventor of the defibrillator, Dr. Lown was also a peace and anti-nuclear acti...
Crime and Responsibility: War, Indiscriminate Bombing, and Mass Killing
Dr. Yuki Tanaka of the Hiroshima Peace Institute examines the question of the criminality of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the responsibility of American political and military leaders who were closely involved in the decision-making...
The Challenges in Latin America: The Importance of Increased Economic and Political Integration
Ambassador Shapiro will discuss the challenges we currently face in the region as well as challenges that the new administration will need to address. He will discuss U.S. Relations with Latin American countries, the importance of developing and mainta...
The Tyranny of Oil: The World's Most Powerful Industry, and What We Must Do to Stop It
Author, policy expert, and activist Antonia Juhasz is an associate fellow with the Institute for Policy Studies, a fellow with Oil Change International, and a senior analyst for Foreign Policy In Focus. The author of The Bush Agenda: Invading the World...
The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power
Writer, film-maker, and leading figure of the international left Tariq Ali speaks about Pakistan, Afghanistan and the future of U.S. involvement in the region. Ali's new book, The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power, weighs the prospect...
Challenges for the New Administration in Iraq and Afghanistan
Juan Cole will discuss the future of U.S. foreign policy in Iraq and Afghanistan beyond the November presidential elections. Juan Cole is Richard P. Mitchell Distinguished University Professor of History at the University of Michigan. He has written ex...
India: The Emerging Giant
Arvind Panagariya will discuss his new book, India: The Emerging Giant, a history of the economic development of India since independence and the "definitive book on the Indian economy" according to Newsweek editor Fareed Zakaria.Panagariya is Jagdish ...
Putin's Labyrinth: What Russia Won in Georgia; Why the U.S. Will Continue to Lose
Russia is once again front and center in the wake it's invasion of Georgia and effective re-assertion of dominance in the Caucasus region. What levers can the U.S. and Europe assert against Putin's aggression? What is Russia's political calculus and ho...
Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and the Fight over Presidential Power
In his latest book, "The Challenge: Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and the Fight over Presidential Power," Jonathan Mahler chronicles the challenge to the assertion of presidential power in the designation of enemy combatants.Written with the cooperation of the at...