Overview
Public Affairs hosted speakers who are prominent people in the world of international affairs, from acclaimed authors, to Nobel laureates, to high-ranking UN officials.
MAY 22, 2001 • Transcript
Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict
Competition for control of resources has been the root of many conflicts since the end of the Cold War, argues Klare. The view that resources ...
APR 11, 2001 • Transcript
From War to Peace: Altered Strategic Landscapes in the Twentieth Century
What will the future look like? Can we use history as a guide? Kennedy describes how the international political landscape changed after World War I, ...
JAN 31, 2001 • Transcript
Power Plays: How Energy Fuels World Politics
The politics of low prices in the oil market won't disappear, says Morse. "There are too many forces—too many temptations—to engage in market ...
JAN 21, 2001 • Transcript
Six Nightmares: Real Threats in a Dangerous World and How America Can Meet Them
Anthony Lake argues that the United States cannot afford to be lax about its security in a world plagued by episodes of high terrorism and ...
DEC 4, 2000 • Article
Impact and Repercussions: U.S. Military Aid to Colombia
The current war in Colombia has been raging for at least four decades, but civil conflict has been present in Colombia at least since the ...
NOV 17, 2000 • Transcript
History of the Present: Essays, Sketches and Dispatches from Europe in the 1990s
"The leaders of Western Europe share a direct responsibility for much of what went wrong in the Eastern half of the continent through the 1990s," ...
OCT 26, 2000 • Transcript
France and Globalization
Former French prime minister Alain Juppé asserts that France's reputation for outspoken anti-globalism "no longer matches any reality," but qualifies this assertion, noting that the ...