Foreign policy for u. S. Programs in washington, d. C. He is a professor of Political Science at William Jewel college in missouri. He graduated with a bachelors degree from the university of oklahoma and a ph. D. From georgetown university. Gary served as Research Assistant to a political scientist, political economist, and author, and teaching assistant to former u. S. Secretary of state madeleine albright, who is here for a private dinner earlier this year, just to drop a name or two to impress you. Gary joined the William Jewel College Faculty in 1992 and now serves as chairman of the department of Political Science and director of the International Relations major. The William Jewel student body has voted him professor of the year an amazing four times. Gary is also a longtime supporter of the National World war 1 museum and memorial, and for that we are very appreciate. Please give a warm become to dr. Gary armstrong. [ applause ] good evening, and thank you for coming tonight. T
Woodrow wilson had spent seven Months Overseas negotiating. Professor armstrong wished that the treaty would vault the u. S. Into a leading position in the global order but u. S. Domestic political divisions, combined with turmoil created by a flu pandemic, red scare, racial unrest and wilson suffering a stroke all contributed to his failure to receive ratification. Kansas city hosted this event and provided the video. Our guest speaker, dr. Gary t. Armstrong, teaches American Foreign policy for u. S. Programs in washington, d. C. He is a professor of Political Science at William Jewel college in missouri. He graduated with a bachelors degree from the university of oklahoma and a phd from georgetown university. Gary served as Research Assistant to a political scientist, political economist, and author, and teaching assistant to former u. S. Secretary of state madeleine albright, who is here for a private dinner earlier this year, just to drop a name or two to impress you. Gary joined t
He is the author of the recent New York Times bestseller callsign chaos, learning the lead. Joshua over is the constantine chair in the school of humanities and sciences. Specializing in the areas of ancient and modernpolitical theory and historical institutionalism. We as a secondary appointmentin the department of classics and currency appointment in philosophy. His most recent books is entitled there marvelous, democracy before liberalism in theory and practice published in 2017. His work focuses on the theory and practice of democracy and the politics of knowledge and innovation. I run skinner is the Campbell Research fellow at the Hoover Institution and professor of International Relations and politics and director of the institute of politics and strategy at Carnegie Mellon university. Prior to the recent return to academia he served as director of the office of policy planning and senior policy advisor for the secretary of state at the Us Department of state. Her areas of expert
2021 talking about one of his more recentlk books. major poll just came out from pew research, major polling agency,, and which they asked people, they give people a choice of 15 serious problems, ask them to rank them in terms of urgency, divided by republicans and democrats. among republicans the very last one at thehe bottom was global warming. at the top was illegal immigrants and the debt. the debt incidentally became a problem last november 4. up until then the debt was fine. republicans were creating it to enrich very rich people so there was no problem. november 4 biden took it over, might use to help others, or people, terrible. major problem. it s not that the people who said that actually believe it. it starts with the here in the bubble in which they are contained. they listen to the murdoch tv station, ox news, read the murdoch press and that s what you hear. whenen you re stuck in that bube that s what you believe. so theth real problems are illel immigrants,
prime ministers and nobel prize winners and even a rock musician. i am none of those things. i am a professor, so i love captive audiences and am a former diplomat, so i love to give speeches. i also have a very deep affection for the state of missouri, in part because it s where i had my first job. i was newly married and just out of college, and my husband was in the army stationed at fort leonardwood. i lived about 90 miles south of here in waynesville. i inhabited a converted motel room and drove 30 miles to work each day at the ral la daily news where i wrote obituaries and articles for the society page, reported on an occasional sports stories and even interviewed people who had seen a ufo. i also sold classified ads. my favorite that i remember was, this man came in, and this is what he gave me. he said cemetery plot for sale. owner must move, sell at sacrifice. there s another reason i love missouri, because it gave america the gift of harry truman who was my first am