Events
Could the War in Vietnam Have Ended Earlier?
November 28, 2011 // 4:00pm — 5:30pm
The Vietnam War cost the lives of more than 58,000 Americans (and millions of Vietnamese) and convulsed U.S. politics and culture in the 1960s. Could it have ended years earlier, and with a far smaller toll?
Offsite Event: Ideological Storms: Intellectuals and the Totalitarian Temptation
November 15, 2011 // 9:00am — 4:30pm
The conference will provide an overview of the main issues raised by the temptation of the extremes in the 20th century and their weight upon the contemporary world. This conference will be held off-site at the Embassy of Romania.
Ideological Storms: Intellectuals and the Totalitarian Temptation
November 14, 2011 // 9:00am — 3:15pm
The conference will provide an overview of the main issues raised by the temptation of the extremes in the 20th century and their weight upon the contemporary world.
CWIHP Hosts International Conference on Iran-Iraq War with the National Defense University Conflict Records Research Center
October 26, 2011 // 9:45am — October 27, 2011 // 4:00pm
This conference is being held in connection with the release, by the National Defense University and CWIHP, of a new collection of documents detailing conversations between Saddam Hussein and his generals and officials during the Iran-Iraq War.
In Uncertain Times: American Foreign Policy after the Berlin Wall and 9/11
October 13, 2011 // 4:00pm — 5:30pm
Melvyn P. Leffler, former Wilson Center public policy scholar will discuss his latest book which considers how policymakers react to dramatic developments on the world stage.
Book Event: Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
October 05, 2011 // 9:30am — 11:00am
No one in the twentieth century had a greater impact on world history than Deng Xiaoping. And no scholar is better qualified than Ezra Vogel to disentangle the contradictions embodied in the life and legacy of China’s boldest strategist.
Liberty's Surest Guardian: American Nation-Building from Washington to Obama
October 04, 2011 // 4:00pm — 5:30pm
Jeremi Suri, provocative historian and one of Smithsonian magazine’s “Top Young Innovators,” takes on the idea of American exceptionalism and turns it into a playbook for President Obama over the next, vital few years.
Why We Botch the Ends of Wars
October 03, 2011 // 4:00pm — 5:30pm
A persistent theme in American history in wartime is a failure to plan carefully for the aftermath of wars. Obsessed with the military aspects of their struggles, neither military nor civilian leaders pay close attention to political issues until the shooting is about to stop, making the achievement of a durable settlement dramatically harder.
Foreign Relations of the United States Series: Southern Africa, 1969-1976
September 14, 2011 // 4:00pm — 5:30pm
The Wilson Center's Cold War International History Project in collaboration with the Africa Program presents a panel discussion on the the newly released Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume XXVIII, Southern Africa.
Human Rights Activism and the End of the Cold War: A Transnational History of the Helsinki Network
September 13, 2011 // 4:00pm — 5:30pm
Sarah B. Snyder explores how, in the aftermath of the signing of the Helsinki Final Act, a transnational network of activists committed to human rights in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe made the topic a central element in East-West diplomacy.