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SUMMARY:The End of Ambition with Steven Cook | America's Future in the Middle East
DESCRIPTION:***Rescheduled for August 1st*** \nWhat’s next for the U.S. in the Middle East? Join author Steven Cook\, senior fellow for Middle East & Africa at the Council on Foreign Relations\, in conversation with Jim Falk on what went wrong with U.S. involvement in the region\, and how the U.S. should reimagine our strategic interests in the Middle East amid a changing global order. Purchase The End of Ambition here. \n“Cook demonstrates with terrifying clarity that the Middle East’s reputation for devouring the schemes and dreams of great powers is sending to more and is more often than not a place where grandiose American ideas have gone to die.” Aaron David Miller\, Senior Fellow\, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. \nThe details:\nWhen: Thursday\, August 1 | 7:00PM ET\nWhere: Zoom Webinar\nTickets: No charge | Register here \n\nWorldNow with Jim Falk is hosted by the World Affairs Council of Connecticut and Global Santa Fe. Presented in partnership with the Alaska World Affairs Council\, Dallas Committee on Foreign Relations\, Phoenix Committee on Foreign Relations\, World Affairs Council of Albuquerque\, World Affairs Council of Austin\, World Affairs Council of Charlotte\, World Affairs Council of Colorado Springs\, World Affairs Council of Hampton Roads\, World Affairs Council of Houston\, World Affairs Council of Jacksonville\, World Affairs Council of Orange County\, World Affairs Council of South Texas\, World Affairs Council of Western Massachusetts\, WorldOregon\, and Perspectives Matter. \n\nAbout the Book\nThe End of Ambition: America’s Past\, Present and Future in the Middle East by Steven Cook \nA clear-headed vision for the United States’ role in the Middle East that highlights the changing nature of US national interests and the challenges of grand strategizing at a time of profound change in the international order. \nFollowing a long series of catastrophic misadventures in the Middle East over the last two decades\, the American foreign policy community has tried to understand what went wrong. After weighing the evidence\, they have mostly advised a retreat from the region. The basic view is that when the United States tries to advance change in the Middle East\, it only makes matters worse. \nIn The End of Ambition\, Steven A. Cook argues that while these analysts are rightly concerned that engagement drains US resources and distorts its domestic politics\, the broader impulse to disengage tends to neglect important lessons from the past. Moreover\, advocates of pulling back overlook the potential risks of withdrawal. Cook makes the bold claim that despite setbacks and moral costs\, the United States has been overwhelmingly successful in protecting its core national interests in the Middle East. Conversely\, overly ambitious policies to remake the region and leverage US power not only ended in failure\, but rendered the region unstable in new and largely misunderstood ways. \nWhile making the case that retrenchment is not the answer to America’s problems in the Middle East\, The End of Ambition highlights how America’s interests in the region have begun to change and critically examines alternative approaches to US-Middle East policy. Cook highlights the challenges that policymakers and analysts confront developing a new strategy for the United States in the Middle East against the backdrop of both political uncertainty in the United States and a changing global order. Purchase The End of Ambition here. \n\nAbout the Author\nSteven A. Cook is Eni Enrico Mattei senior fellow for Middle East and Africa studies and director of the International Affairs Fellowship for Tenured International Relations Scholars at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). He is an expert on Arab and Turkish politics as well as U.S.-Middle East policy. Cook is the author of False Dawn: Protest\, Democracy\, and Violence in the New Middle East. He is a columnist at Foreign Policy magazine and speaks Arabic and Turkish. \n\nAbout the Moderator\nJim Falk is President Emeritus of the World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth and Global Santa Fe’s Program Chair. Jim co-hosts Perspectives Matter\, a McCuistion Program\, that airs weekly on KERA-Dallas (PBS). He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. \n\nStay Globally Involved\nRenew your membership or become a member on our website. As a member of the World Affairs Council of Connecticut\, you can get exclusive access to events and travel opportunities\, build relationships with local leaders and global dignitaries\, and join our community of global citizens. Let us bring the world to you.
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SUMMARY:Behind the White House Curtain with Steve Herman
DESCRIPTION:Freedom of the press is a hallmark of our democracy. Steve Herman\, a veteran member of the White House Press Corps\, considers covering the U.S. President a key part of ensuring a healthy democracy. Join us in conversation with Steve on June 25 on what it’s really like to cover the President\, and the importance of journalistic independence at a time when misinformation is so rampant. In conversation with Jim Falk. \nThe details:\nWhen: Tuesday\, June 25 | 7:00PM ET \nWhere: Zoom Webinar \nTickets: Free | Registration required \nBuy Tickets on EventbriteRSVP Now \n\n\nWorldNow with Jim Falk is hosted by the World Affairs Council of Connecticut and Global Santa Fe. Presented in partnership with the World Affairs Council of Albuquerque\, Phoenix Committee on Foreign Relations\, Dallas Committee on Foreign Relations\, World Affairs Council of Jacksonville\, World Affairs Council of Western Massachusetts\, and Perspectives Matter. \n\nAbout the Book\nBehind the White House Curtain: A Senior Journalist’s Story of Covering the President – and Why it Matters by Steven Herman \nGoing behind the scenes with a veteran member of the White House press corps \nSteven L Herman\, chief national correspondent for the nonpartisan\, government-funded Voice of America (VOA)\, weaves together memoir and history to pull back the curtain on the inner workings of the White House press corps\, giving readers a rare glimpse into the historic and current relationship between the president and the press. \nHerman traces the trajectory of his career as a journalist—from learning to be skeptical of government officials’ statements when he worked as a novice reporter covering nuclear testing in Nevada in the 1970s to understanding the power of on-the-ground social media coverage after the Fukushima disaster in 2011 and facing the challenges of covering the Trump administration. He reflects on the experience of reporting on a president who once called journalists “enemies of the people”—and indeed\, former president Trump singled out VOA\, accusing the organization of being not a voice of America but rather a voice supporting Moscow’s and Beijing’s interests. Under questionable circumstances\, top VOA executives lost their security clearances\, and a dossier was prepared on Herman in an effort to remove him as White House bureau chief. With journalistic independence under threat\, Herman feared not only for his career but also for “the soul of Voice of America.” \nThroughout Behind the White House Curtain\, Herman convincingly argues that public access to accurate\, unbiased information is essential to a healthy and peaceful democracy\, and that journalists can and should play a key role in pressing government officials to be truthful and transparent. At a time when misinformation is rampant and the need for unbiased coverage of current events is more urgent than ever\, Herman reminds readers that freedom of the press is a foundational American right. \nPurchase Behind the White House Curtain here. \n\nAbout the Author\nSteven L Herman is the chief national correspondent of the Voice of America (VOA)\, an adjunct assistant professor at Shenandoah University\, and an adjunct lecturer in the journalism department of the University of Richmond. He covered the White House for VOA during the Trump administration and the first eight months of the Biden administration. He has traveled to more than 75 countries and territories\, including reporting assignments in Afghanistan\, Argentina\, Bhutan\, Burma\, China\, the Gaza Strip\, North Korea\, Peru\, and Vietnam. \nAbout the Moderator\nJim Falk is President Emeritus of the World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth. Now residing in Santa Fe\, New Mexico he is member of the Board of Global Santa Fe where he chairs the program committee. Jim co-hosts Perspectives Matter\, a McCuistion Program\, that airs weekly on KERA-Dallas (PBS). He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. \n\nStay Globally Involved\nRenew your membership or become a member on our website. As a member of the World Affairs Council of Connecticut\, you can get exclusive access to events and travel opportunities\, build relationships with local leaders and global dignitaries\, and join our community of global citizens. Let us bring the world to you.
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SUMMARY:Countdown with Sarah Scoles | The Blinding Future of Nuclear Weapons
DESCRIPTION:For fans of Oppenheimer: join us for another episode of WorldNow with Jim Falk – featuring science journalist and author Sarah Scoles\, who will discuss the reality of nuclear weapons in the present day and what it means for our global future. \nThe details:\nWhen: Thursday\, May 2 | 7:00PM ET \nWhere: Zoom Webinar \nTickets: Free | Registration required | Get Tickets Here \n\nWorldNow with Jim Falk is hosted by the World Affairs Council of Connecticut and Global Santa Fe. Presented in partnership with the World Affairs Council of Albuquerque\, Phoenix Committee on Foreign Relations\, Dallas Committee on Foreign Relations\, World Affairs Council of Jacksonville\, World Affairs Council of Charlotte\, WorldOregon\, World Affairs Council of Greater Houston\, World Affairs Council of Greater Hampton Roads\, World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth\, World Affairs Council of South Texas\, World Affairs Council of Western Massachusetts\, and Perspectives Matter. \n\nAbout the Book\nCountdown: The Blinding Future of Nuclear Weapons by Sarah Scoles \nFor fans of Oppenheimer\, a riveting investigation into the modern nuclear weapons landscape. \nNuclear weapons are\, today\, as important as they were during the Cold War\, and some experts say we could be as close to a nuclear catastrophe now as we were at the height of that conflict. Despite that\, conversations about these bombs generally often happen in past tense. \nIn Countdown\, science journalist Sarah Scoles uncovers a different atomic reality: the nuclear age’s present. \nDrawing from years of on-the-ground reporting at the nation’s nuclear weapons labs\, Scoles interrogates the idea that having nuclear weapons keeps us safe\, deterring attacks and preventing radioactive warfare. She deftly assesses the existing nuclear apparatus in the United States\, taking readers beyond the news headlines and policy-speak to reveal the state of nuclear-weapons technology\, as well as how people currently working within the U.S. nuclear weapons complex have come to think about these bombs and the idea that someone\, someday\, might use them. \nThrough a sharp\, surprising\, and undoubtedly urgent narrative\, Scoles brings us out of the Cold War and into the twenty-first century\, opening readers’ eyes to the true nature of nuclear weapons and their caretakers while also giving us the context necessary to understand the consequences of their existence\, for worse and for better\, for now and for the future. \nPurchase Countdown here. \n\nAbout the Author\nSarah Scoles is a Colorado-based science journalist\, a contributing writer at Popular Science\, and a senior contributor at Undark. Her work has appeared in publications like the New York Times\, Wired\, Scientific American\, and others. She is also the author of the books Making Contact: Jill Tarter and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence\, They Are Already Here: UFO Culture and Why We See Saucers\, and Astronomical Mindfulness. Her forthcoming book is called Countdown: The Blinding Future of Nuclear Weapons. Her articles have won the American Geophysical Union’s David Perlman Award for Excellence in Science Writing (2021) and the American Astronomical Society Solar Physics Division’s Popular Media Award (2019\, 2020). Previously\, she was an associate editor at Astronomy and a public education officer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank\, West Virginia. \n\nAbout the Moderator\nJim Falk is President Emeritus of the World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth. Now residing in Santa Fe\, New Mexico he is member of the Board of Global Santa Fe where he chairs the program committee. Jim co-hosts Perspectives Matter\, a McCuistion Program\, that airs weekly on KERA-Dallas (PBS). He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. \n  \n\nHosts & Partners\n \n\nStay Globally Involved\nRenew your membership or become a member on our website. As a member of the World Affairs Council of Connecticut\, you can get exclusive access to events and travel opportunities\, build relationships with local leaders and global dignitaries\, and join our community of global citizens. Let us bring the world to you.
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SUMMARY:Out of the Darkness with Frank Trentmann | The Germans: 1942-2022
DESCRIPTION:How can a nation reinvent itself? Author Frank Trentmann will join us April 2nd at 7PM EDT to tell the story of how the German people were able to rebuild after World War II and redefine their place in the world – and what we can learn from it today. In conversation with Jim Falk. \nWorldNow with Jim Falk is hosted by the World Affairs Council of Connecticut with Global Santa Fe. Presented in partnership with the American Council on Germany\, World Affairs Council of Albuquerque\, World Affairs Council of Jacksonville\, WorldOregon\, World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth\, World Affairs Council of Greater Houston\, World Affairs Council of Hampton Roads\, and the Phoenix Committee on Foreign Relations. \nOrder a copy of Out of the Darkness by Frank Trentmann here. \nThe details:\nWhen: Tuesday\, April 2 | 7:00PM EDT\nWhere: Zoom Webinar\nTickets: Free | Registration required \n\n\nAbout the Author\n Frank Trentmann is Professor of History at Birkbeck\, University of London\, and at the University of Helsinki. He is the author of Empire of Things and Free Trade Nation\, and has been awarded the Whitfield Prize\, a Moore Distinguished Fellowship at Caltech\, the Austrian Science Book Prize\, the Humboldt Prize for Research\, and in 2023 the Bochum Historians’ Prize. He received his PhD from Harvard University and has taught at Princeton University. He grew up in Hamburg and lives in London. \nAbout the Moderator\nJim Falk is President Emeritus of the World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth. and Board Vice Chair at Global Santa Fe. Jim hosts Perspectives Matter…a McCuistion Program\, that airs weekly on KERA-Dallas (PBS). He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. \n  \n\nHosts & Partners\n \n\nAbout the Book\nOut of the Darkness: The Germans 1942-2022 by Frank Trentmann \nA gripping and nuanced history of the German people from World War II to the war in Ukraine\, including revealing new primary source material on Germany’s transformation. \nIn 1945\, Germany lay in ruins\, morally and materially. Its citizens stood condemned by history\, responsible for a horrifying genocide and war of extermination. But by the end of Angela Merkel’s tenure as chancellor in 2021\, Germany looked like the moral voice of Europe\, welcoming more than one million refugees\, holding together the tenuous threads of the European Union\, and making military restraint the center of its foreign policy. At the same time\, Germany’s rigid fiscal discipline and energy deals with Vladimir Putin have cast a shadow over the present. Innumerable scholars have asked how Germany could have degenerated from a nation of scientists\, poets\, and philosophers into one responsible for genocide. This book raises another vital question: How did a nation whose past has been marked by mass murder\, a people who cheered Adolf Hitler\, reinvent themselves\, and how much? \nTrentmann tells this dramatic story of the German people from the middle of World War II through the Cold War and the division into East and West to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the struggle to find a place in the world today. This journey is marked by a series of extraordinary moral conflicts: admissions of guilt and shame vying with immediate economic concerns; restitution for some but not others; tolerance versus racism; compassion versus complicity. Through a range of voices—German soldiers and German Jews; displaced persons in limbo; East German women and shopkeepers angry about energy shortages; opponents and supporters of nuclear power; volunteers helping migrants and refugees\, and right-wing populists attacking them—Trentmann paints a remarkable and surprising portrait spanning eighty years of the conflicted people at the center of Europe\, showing how the Germans became who they are today.\nPurchase Out of the Darkness here. \n\nStay Globally Involved\nAs a member of the World Affairs Council of Connecticut\, you can get exclusive access to events and travel opportunities\, build relationships with local leaders and global dignitaries\, and join our community of global citizens. Let us bring the world to you. \nRenew your membership or become a member on our website. Join now to access exclusive events and discounted pricing.
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