The book and panel is certainly timely given the rising crisis with iran. We will get to that subject eventually but the book entitled seven pillars in the discussion is to look more broadly and more deeply at the drivers of instability in the middle east. From yemen to syria to iraq and now with iran, the region more than ever seems in a permanent state of turmoil and has become a land of endless wars. And tragically, despite decades of intense and often wellmeaning american intention in the expenditure of billions of dollars, u. S. Policy has more often than not in a failure. Maybe to caveat more often than not is too kind, and absolute failure that one except the basic lane was the stability and a better life for the people in the region. Of course once ultimately responsible for our country success for failure are the people who lived there but the catastrophe of todays middle east raises a lot of questions about whether the United States should continue to be engaged in the region
Audience to the firstever podcast taping and mark the Second Season of the premier of the podcast of the Second Season of the realignment by the hudson media fellows. We are proud of the realignment of hudson with the podcast launched last year and i recommend especially for those of you that have been following it that you take a look at the efforts from last year. Mike pompeo, josh holly, mike gallagher, mike duran and others its an Excellent Program partly because of the two people who put it together to bring out topics and move the argument along so we couldnt be prouder of the work theyve done and i want to thank them for that and we are happy to launch this years program. Michael is a professor at the lyndon b. Johnson school of Public Affairs at the university of texas. Saving democracy for the managerial elite. The book that you could purchase at the back thats just published today so we are here at the launch. Congratulations on that. Theres a direct line between the class fo
The trial issue room shifted the national conversation. In 2014 relative to today, the Democratic Front runner, china is a significant problem economically and in the International Security sense. The credit for changing the conversation goes largely to the 2016 election and donald trump. Host on the democratic stage only one candidate said he would take away china tariffs and most said they would vote for a street deal with nafta. If that is not a political realignment not sure what is. An interesting thing, we should one of the east economically disruptive are implemented to restore a more even balance of power to the capital and labor. Tight labor markets, labor naturally wants a buyers market in labor or a sellers market in labor and employees want to buy ors market so that is basic, from the 1820s until 1990s the labor market from and tended to be, more generous policies, the former Country Club Republicans have become the new postal democrats, the children or grandchildren have,
Director of the schoolcraft institute of internationalst here at the texas a m university. I would like to welcome our specialco event this evening wih kim ghattas who will speak on a recent book, black wave, saudi arabia, iran and the 40 year rivalry that unraveled culture, religion and collective memory in the middle east. I have to say i spent the weekend reading and did not quite get the right but cannot put it down because it wasnt so interesting. If you have not read it afterre this evening im sure you will try to get the book if you have not already but i would urge you to read at grade its absolutely fascinating and well written and well researched and a narrative flow to it anded its troublingi have to say but thats the purpose of the book. I would like to announce unfortunately that our event in todays with ambassador dennis ross who is another expert in the middle east is unable to come to College Station and had and so hisergency lecture wednesday evening will be postponed
Get the book if you havent already but i would urge you to read it. Its absolutely faceting, very well written, very relevant research. Theres a narrative flow to it and its very troubling i have to say but thats the purpose of the book i think. I would like to announce unfortunately that our event in two days with ambassador dennis ross whos another expert in the middle east is unable to come to college station. He had a family emergency, so his lecture wednesday evening will be postponed until later. Kim ghattas is an Emmy Awardwinning journalist and writer who cover the middle east for 20 years for bbc and the Financial Times picture reported from iraq, saudi arabia, syria, lebanon,n, and she covered the r between israel and hezbollah earning an emmy for International News coverage. Shes also reported on the state department and on american politics regularly traveling with secretaries of state including condoleezza rice, Hillary Clinton and john kerry. She has been published in atl