Videos

This Pepperdine College Cold War film documents Soviet territorial expansion between 1917 and 1962, and warns of the threat of international communism. Primarily focused on the increase of S…

Jeffrey Engel talked about his book When the World Seemed New, in which he examines George H.W. Bush’s foreign policy initiatives at the start of the post-Cold War world.

Author Hope Harrison discussed the history of Germany, post-Berlin Wall. This program was part of an American History TV and “Washington Journal” three-hour program from the Newseum in Wa…

Michael Mandelbaum talked about his book, Mission Failure: America and the World in the Post-Cold War Era.  He argued that America’s foreign policy in the early 1990's focused primarily on m…

Members of the Global Zero Commission talked about the future of nuclear weapons reductions by the U.S. and Russia. Topics included the recommendations that the Presidents of the U.S. and Ru…

Peter Baker moderated a discussion on the future of U.S.-Russia relations and the priorities of each nation as the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START I) expires on December 5, 2009. Pane…

Hal Brands talked about his book From Berlin to Baghdad: America’s Search for Purpose in the Post-Cold War World, published by University Press of Kentucky. In his book he analyzes America’s…

Robert Kagan talked about his book The Return of History and the End of Dreams, published by Knopf. In his book he argues that the international stability predicted after the end of the Cold…

Ronald and Susan Shapiro talked about their book The Curtain Rises: Oral Histories of the Fall of Communism in Eastern Europe, published by McFarland and Company. The book included the life …

Russian and Eastern European scholar, historian, and author Richard Pipes was interviewed by former “Firing Line” host William F. Buckley, Jr. on Pipes' latest book, Communism: A History, pu…

Milton Bearden and James Risen discussed the book they co-wrote The Main Enemy: The Inside Story of the CIA’s Final Showdown with the KGB, published by Random House. Based on interviews with…

Thomas Henriksen discussed the end of the Cold War, and how that changed U.S. Foreign policy. He talked about U.S. foreign policy following the fall of communism, including U.S involvement i…

Pete Earley and Sergei Tretyakov talked about the post-Cold War world of Russian and American espionage. Mr. Earley is the author of Comrade J: The Untold Secrets of Russia’s Master Spy in A…

Former President Richard Nixon discussed his book Seize the Moment: America’s Challenge in a One-Superpower World, published by Simon and Schuster. In his book, he assesses the challenges a…

In this BOOKNOTES interview Marc Fisher,Author, AFTER THE WALL; GERMANY, GERMANS AND THE BURDENS OF HISTORY discussed his book that examined the relationship between East and West Ger…

The panelists discussed Mr. Kotkin’s book, Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000, published by Oxford University Press. Combining historical and geopolitical analysis, Mr. Kotki…

Experts discussed reasons for decreasing the size of the U.S. Army. Mr. Pena said that the United States needs to eliminate its obsolete Cold War era military deployments around the world an…

Former President Gerald Ford presented awards for excellence in journalism for work in various areas of national politics. Following the presentations President Ford talked about Congression…

Participants talked about the recent summit between President Bush and President Putin which resulted in a sweeping nuclear arms reduction treaty, and about the inclusion of Russia as a limi…

Mr. Wright and Mr. Kaplan debated the condition of the world in 2010. Mr. Wright talked about some of the themes of his book, Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny, published by Pantheon Books…