Tv, back story host brian tran brian balogh and Nathan Connolly give a behindthe scenes look at their weekly podcast. They were joined by a former staff member and a regular guest. This is part of a twoday Purdue University Conference Call remaking american political history. Welcome to the 10 45 panel called Something Like behind the scenes, back story maybe. Just so you know, youre not in the wrong place. I am brian balogh. I have been a cohost for back story for over 10 years now. I am going to introduce the panel and then we are each going to say a few words about our quite different roles. Nathan and i have the same role. He is trying to steal the 20th century for me and is doing a pretty good job of it. Will have relatively different roles in back story. We are going to talk about that a little bit. And then we wanted to open it up to your questions. This is not what it looks like behind the scenes at back story. In fact, we are rarely in the same place at the same time. I had to
The Committee Welcomes order. Witnesses. Me the we are here to have testimony from a range of industries that tell us about the importance of the United States, mexico, Canada Agreement and we prefer that to usmca. Fromok forward to hearing witnesses about the significance of the agreement to American Business both small and large, the workers and farmers we all represent. Thank you for being here. Canada, and mexico, our countrys most important trading partners. Americasone third of merchandising went to mexico and canada. Nearly half 1 trillion in American Goods the year. The foundation of our strong praise relationship with mexico and canada has been thus far nafta. The United States negotiated and agreement between 1990 1993 and at the time it was a Gold Standard of trade agreements. It enabled American Businesses, workers, farmers and ranchers is andanges without tariffs nontariff barriers and for decades, burdened our ability to compete in those two countries. Andourse, the u. S.
Contained. The Woodrow Wilson Center Hosted this onehour event. Mr. Pomeranz its a great pleasure today to welcome back austin carson. He also has the distinction of being a title viii scholar. He has just written a new book, secret wars covert conflict in international politics. And it will be available for purchase after todays talk. Dr. Carson is an assistant professor in the department of Political Science at the university of chicago. He has published widely already. In the international organization, the american journal of Political Science, journal of politics and security studies. He has already launched on his second book project which is ambitious which analyzes the role of politics and secrecy in international organizations. He received his phd from ohio state and as i previously mentioned, he was a Summer Research scholar under the title viii program here at the institute in 2013. With that, i will turn the floor over to austin. Prof. Carson great, thanks so much, will. Th
Politics. And it will be available for purchase after todays talk. Dr. Carson is an assistant professor in the department of Political Science at the university of chicago. He has published widely already. In the international the american journal of Political Science, journal of pot andrnal of politics security studies. He has already launched on his second book project which is ambitious which analyzes the role of politics and secrecy in international organizations. He received his phd from ohio state and as i previously mentioned, he was a Summer Research scholar under the title viii program here at the institute in 2013. With that, i will turn the floor over to austin. Professor carson great, thanks so much, will. Thanks also to all of you for coming. Its great to be back here at the Wilson Center. I really appreciate the institute to support the Cold War International history project. And a shoutout to victoria and cindy for all your done to make it possible to come out here. I wa
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