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.
FEB 19, 2004 • Transcript
Challenges to the UN
Sir Kieran Prendergast gives a progress report on the panel appointed by Kofi Annan to recommend changes that would enable the UN to respond more ...
FEB 4, 2004 • Transcript
Of Paradise and Power: America vs. Europe in the New World Order (With a New Afterword)
The widening military gap between Europe and the United States has an unavoidable effect, says Robert Kagan. "It is a natural human phenomenon that if ...
JAN 23, 2004 • Transcript
The Lesser Evil: Hard Choices in a War on Terror
Ignatieff says that while the battle against terrorism may sometimes require infringing international norms on the use of force, we must constantly guard against slipping ...
JAN 21, 2004 • Transcript
The Oligarchs: Wealth and Power in the New Russia
Is Khordorovsky a captialist or a criminal, and what does his case teach us about Putin's Russia?
NOV 20, 2003 • Transcript
Freedom on Fire: Human Rights Wars and America's Response
Shattuck says that the forces unleashed against us on 9/11 were the very forces of disintegration that he witnessed in Rwanda, Bosnia, and Haiti, and are ...
NOV 13, 2003 • Transcript
Nehru: The Invention of India
Shashi Tharoor assesses the legacy of Nehru, the man who "through his writings, his speeches, his leadership,...invented India in an extraordinary way."
NOV 5, 2003 • Transcript
The Roaring Nineties: A New History of the World's Most Prosperous Decade
Looking back at the economy of the 1990s, Nobel Laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz draws a lesson for the present: “We must restore the balance between ...
OCT 21, 2003 • Transcript
Fear's Empire: War, Terrorism, and Democracy in an Age of Interdependence
Benjamin Barber urges the United States to curb its militaristic impulses in favor of working for "global comity" within the framework of universal rights and ...
OCT 15, 2003 • Transcript
PLAN B: Rescuing a Planet under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble
An in-depth look at human damage to the natural environment and the social and technological possibilities for remedying such degradation.
OCT 2, 2003 • Transcript
The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century
According to economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, the radicalism of the current administration’s political agenda, from its Social Security plans to ...