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'The World: A Brief Introduction'

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'The World: A Brief Introduction'

Richard Haass, Todd Sechser (moderator)

Tuesday, December 01, 2020
11:00AM - 12:00PM (EST)
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Like it or not, we live in a global era, in which what happens thousands of miles away has the ability to affect our lives. This time, it is a coronavirus known as COVID-19. Next time it could well be another infectious disease from somewhere else. Twenty years ago it was a group of terrorists trained in Afghanistan and armed with box-cutters who commandeered four airplanes and claimed nearly 3,000 lives. Next time it could be terrorists who use a truck bomb or gain access to a weapon of mass destruction. 

This is the new normal of the 21st century. In this conversation, Richard Haass, veteran diplomat and the current president of the Council on Foreign Relations, talks with Todd Sechser of the Democracy Initiative's Statecraft Lab about his new book The World: A Brief Introduction, which aims to navigate a time in which many of our biggest challenges come from the world beyond our borders.

Cosponsored by the Democracy Initiative's Statecraft Lab

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When
Tuesday, December 01, 2020
11:00AM - 12:00PM (EST)
Where
Webinar
Speakers
Richard Haass

Richard Haass

Richard Haass is president of the nonpartisan Council on Foreign Relations. An experienced diplomat and policymaker, he served as the senior Middle East advisor to President George H. W. Bush and as director of the policy planning staff under Secretary of State Colin Powell. A recipient of the Presidential Citizens Medal, the State Department’s Distinguished Honor Award, and the Tipperary International Peace Award, he is also the author or editor of 14 other books.

Todd Sechster

Todd Sechser (moderator)

Todd S. Sechser is the Pamela Feinour Edmonds and Franklin S. Edmonds Jr. Discovery Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia. He is also a professor of public policy at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy and a faculty senior fellow at the Miller Center. He is coauthor of the book Nuclear Weapons and Coercive Diplomacy (Cambridge University Press, 2017), and is the director of the Democratic Statecraft Lab, a project that aims to map the foundations of U.S. grand strategy for an era of great-power competition.