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SUMMARY:Our Ancient Faith with Allen Guelzo: Lincoln\, Democracy\, & the American Experiment
DESCRIPTION:On Lincoln’s birthday\, award-winning historian and author Allen Guelzo will join us in conversation on the American President whose firm and powerful beliefs in democracy guided him through one of the most tumultuous periods in American history – and how his beliefs continue to shape our country. In conversation with Jim Falk. \nHosted by the World Affairs Council of Connecticut in partnership with Global Santa Fe\, World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth\, Phoenix Committee on Foreign Relations\, World Affairs Council of Albuquerque\, World Affairs Council of Greater Hampton Roads\, the Center for Presidential History at SMU\, and the Oregon Historical Society. \nThe details:\nWhen: Monday\, February 12 | 7:00PM ET \nWhere: Zoom Webinar \nTickets: Free | Register here \n\nAbout the Author\nAllen C. Guelzo is Senior Research Scholar at the Council of the Humanities at Princeton University. He is the author of several books about the Civil War and early-nineteenth-century American history. He is a recipient of the Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize for Military History and has been awarded the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize three times. He lives in Pennsylvania. \nPhoto: Courtesy Sameer Khan\, Fotobuddy \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\nAbout the Book\nOur Ancient Faith: Lincoln\, Democracy\, and the American Experiment \nAn intimate study of Abraham Lincoln’s powerful vision of democracy\, which guided him through the Civil War and is still relevant today—by a best-selling historian and three-time winner of the Lincoln Prize \n“It is altogether fitting and proper that\, with this meditation on democracy and its most subtle defender\, Allen Guelzo again demonstrates that he is today’s most profound interpreter of this nation’s history and significance.” —George F. Will \nAbraham Lincoln grappled with the greatest crisis of democracy that has ever confronted the United States. While many books have been written about his temperament\, judgment\, and steady hand in guiding the country through the Civil War\, we know less about Lincoln’s penetrating ideas and beliefs about democracy\, which were every bit as important as his character in sustaining him through the crisis. \nAllen C. Guelzo\, one of America’s foremost experts on Lincoln\, captures the president’s firmly held belief that democracy was the greatest political achievement in human history. He shows how Lincoln’s deep commitment to the balance between majority and minority rule enabled him to stand firm against secession while also committing the Union to reconciliation rather than recrimination in the aftermath of war. In bringing his subject to life as a rigorous and visionary thinker\, Guelzo assesses Lincoln’s actions on civil liberties and his views on race\, and explains why his vision for the role of government would have made him a pivotal president even if there had been no Civil War. Our Ancient Faith gives us a deeper understanding of this endlessly fascinating man and shows how his ideas are still sharp and relevant more than 150 years later. \nPurchase Our Ancient Faith here. \n\nHosts & Partners\n \n  \n  \n  \n\n  \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. \nIf you want to check your membership status\, email Abby at anoyes@ctwac.org or log in on the membership site.
URL:https://ctwac.org/event/our-ancient-faith-with-allen-guelzo/
LOCATION:Zoom Webinar
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SUMMARY:The Promise of Diplomacy with Ambassador Ted Osius
DESCRIPTION:Ambassador Ted Osius\, former U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam\, joins us in Fairfield County to discuss U.S.-ASEAN relations and how the current U.S.-Vietnam relationship exemplifies the power of diplomacy in ensuring peace. \nThe conversation will be followed by a reception and a book signing of Ambassador Osius’ latest book: Nothing is Impossible: America’s Reconciliation with Vietnam. \nThe Details\nWhen: Tuesday\, February 6th at 6:00PM | Doors open 5:45PM \nWhere: New Canaan Library | 151 Main St\, New Canaan\, CT 06840 \nTickets: Free | Registration required \nReserve your seat now. \n\nAbout the Author\nAmbassador (ret.) Ted Osius \nFormer ambassador Ted Osius is President & CEO of the US-ASEAN Business Council.  Founded in 1984\, the Council represents 180 of the largest American businesses in Southeast Asia through its headquarters in Washington\, DC\, and its seven regional offices. \nA diplomat for thirty years\, Ambassador Osius served from 2014 to 2017 as U.S. ambassador to Vietnam.  Leading a team of 900\, Ambassador Osius devised and implemented strategies to deepen economic\, security and cultural ties between the two countries. In October 2021\, Osius published his most recent book\, Nothing Is Impossible: America’s Reconciliation with Vietnam\, with a Foreword by former Secretary of State John Kerry\, covering the two countries’ 25-year journey from adversaries to friends and partners. \nRead more about Ambassador Osius here. \n\nAbout the Book\nNothing is Impossible: America’s Reconciliation with Vietnam by Ted Osius \nToday Vietnam is one of America’s strongest international partners\, with a thriving economy and a population that welcomes American visitors. How that relationship was formed is a 20-year story of daring diplomacy and a careful thawing of tensions between the two countries after a lengthy war that cost nearly 60\,000 American and more than three million Vietnamese lives. \nTed Osius\, former ambassador during the Obama administration\, offers a vivid account\, starting in the 1990s\, of the various forms of diplomacy that made this reconciliation possible. He considers the leaders who put aside past traumas to work on creating a brighter future\, including senators John McCain and John Kerry\, two Vietnam veterans and ideological opponents who set aside their differences for a greater cause\, and Pete Peterson—the former POW who became the first U.S. ambassador to a new Vietnam. Osius also draws upon his own experiences working first-hand with various Vietnamese leaders and traveling the country on bicycle to spotlight the ordinary Vietnamese people who have helped bring about their nation’s extraordinary renaissance. \nNothing is Impossible – with a foreword by former Secretary of State John Kerry — tells an inspiring story of how international diplomacy can create a better world. \nPurchase Nothing is Impossible here. \n\nHosts & Partners\n \n  \n  \n  \n  \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. \nIf you want to check your membership status\, email Abby at anoyes@ctwac.org or log in on the membership site.
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SUMMARY:The Sister: The Most Dangerous Woman in the World
DESCRIPTION:Join us on November 15th as author Sung-Yoon Lee introduces us to Kim Yo Jong\, the sister and named successor of North Korea’s Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un and “the most dangerous woman in the world.” \nLee’s book takes us inside the inner circle of North Korea’s mysterious family dynasty\, and tells the story of the regime’s top policymaker and chief propagandist who ruthlessly insulted foreign leaders and threatened a nuclear weapons strike. \nModerated by Jim Falk. \n\nThe details:\nWhen: Wednesday\, Nov. 15 | 7:00PM ET \nWhere: Zoom Webinar \nTickets: Free\, required | RSVP here \n\nAbout the author:\nSung-Yoon Lee \nSung-Yoon Lee is a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Previously\, he taught Korean history at Tufts University. He has written on the politics of the Korean peninsula for numerous publications including The New York Times\, Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post. He has testified as an expert witness at the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee hearings on North Korea policy and has advised senior leaders\, including the President of the United States. \n\nAbout the moderator:\nJim Falk \nJim Falk\, President Emeritus of the World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth\, retired in March 2021 after serving as the organization’s president since 2001. 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 and honorary consul of Morocco. \n\nAbout the book\nThe Sister: North Korea’s Kim Yo Jong\, the Most Dangerous Woman in the World by Sung-Yoon Lee \nThis first book on Kim Jong Un’s increasingly powerful sister\, tapped to be his successor\, offers jaw-dropping insights into the latest generation of North Korea’s secretive and murderous dynasty. \nThe first woman ever to issue the threat of a nuclear weapons strike is not even officially a head of state. Kim Yo Jong is the sister of North Korea’s Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un and\, as their murderous regime’s chief propagandist\, internal administrator\, and foreign policymaker\, she is the most powerful woman in North Korean history. Cruel but charming\, she threatens and insults foreign leaders with sardonic wit\, issuing proclamations and denunciations in her own name\, a first for any woman in the Korean royal family. She memorably called the South Korean Defense Minister “a senseless and scum-like guy” before going on to promise South Korea “a miserable fate little short of total destruction and ruin”. A princess by birth with great expectations for her macabre kingdom\, she was brought up to believe it is her mission to reunite North Korea with the South or die trying. She’s ruthless and incredibly dangerous. \nThe Sister\, written by Sung-Yoon Lee\, a scholar of Korean and East Asian studies and a specialist on North Korea\, is a fascinating\, authoritative account of the mysterious world of North Korea and its ruling dynasty—a family whose lust for power entails the brutal repression of civilians\, a missile program that can reach the continental US\, and the constant threat of global havoc. \nOrder The Sister here. \n\nHosts & Partners\n \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. \nIf you want to check your membership status\, email Abby at anoyes@ctwac.org or log in on the membership site.
URL:https://ctwac.org/event/the-sister-the-most-dangerous-woman-in-the-world/
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SUMMARY:Hinge Points: An Inside Look at North Korea's Nuclear Program | Book Talk
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an exclusive discussion featuring Siegfried Hecker\, author of Hinge Points\, on his firsthand account from inside North Korea’s nuclear program\, and moderated by Global Santa Fe’s Program Chair\, Jim Falk. \nHosted by the Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse in Santa Fe\, NM and Global Santa Fe \nThis will be an in-store presentation\, live-streamed on Zoom. \n\nThe Book \n \nHinge Points brings readers literally inside the North Korean nuclear program\, joining Siegfried Hecker to see what he saw and hear what he heard in his visits to North Korea from 2004 to 2010. Hecker goes beyond the technical details―described in plain English from his on-the-ground experience at the North’s nuclear center at Yongbyon―to put the nuclear program exactly where it belongs\, in the context of decades of fateful foreign policy decisions in Pyongyang and Washington. \nDescribing these decisions as “hinge points\,” he traces the consequences of opportunities missed by both sides. The result has been that successive U.S. administrations have been unable to prevent the North\, with the weakest of hands\, from becoming one of only three countries in the world that might target the United States with nuclear weapons. Hecker’s unique ability to marry the technical with the diplomatic is well informed by his interactions with North Korean and U.S. officials over many years\, while his years of working with Russian\, Chinese\, Indian\, and Pakistani nuclear officials have given him an unmatched breadth of experience from which to view and interpret the thinking and perspective of the North Koreans. \nPurchase Hinge Points online here or call the store to order. \n\nThe Author \nSiegfried Hecker was at the Los Alamos National Laboratory for 34 years\, including 12 years as director. He was at Stanford University for 17 years\, including 6 years as co-director of the Center for International Security and Cooperation. He is now part-time professor of practice at Texas A&M University and at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. Hecker has worked on nuclear matters for most of his career\, including having visited all countries with declared nuclear weapons programs\, including North Korea. \n\nWhat: Livestreamed discussion and Q&A on author Siegfried Hecker’s book\, detailing his visits inside North Korea’s nuclear centers. \nWhen: Thursday\, February 9th | 6:00PM MST | 4:00PM EST \nWhere: Zoom and in-person at the Collected Works Bookstore \nTickets: Zoom registration | RSVP required \n\nHosts \n \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n\nStay Globally Involved\nAs a member of the World Affairs Council of Connecticut\, you can get exclusive access to events\, low ticket prices\, 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. \nTo become a member\, consider the member levels on our website. \nIf you are a member – thank you! Make sure you stay involved by renewing your membership or inviting others to join you. To check your membership status\, email Abby at anoyes@ctwac.org or log in on the membership site.
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