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American Foriegn Policy: Looking Forward, Looking Back -- A Discussion with James Carroll,
Robert J. Lifton and Irene Gendzier
Harvard Book Store is excited to announce that on Thursday, June 1st James Carroll, Robert J. Lifton, and Irene Gendzier will discuss their respective books House of War: The Pentagon and the Disastrous Rise of American Power and Crimes of War—Iraq, in light of the past and future of American foreign policy. Daniel L. Shapiro, Associate Director of the Harvard Negotiation Project, will moderate the discussion.
History has shown us that there were secret and ugly aspects to twentieth-century American foreign policy, from Latin America to Asia. But what does the history of our foreign policy tell us about our current involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq? In a world where information travels at the speed of the internet, and “secrets” like abuses at Abu Ghraib, detainees at Guantanamo, and NSA wiretapping are being revealed as they happen, can there be a modern foreign policy which protects our democratic principles and our national security equally well?
James Carroll is the bestselling author of the National Book Award-winning memoir An American Requiem; Constantine's Sword, a history of Christian anti-Semitism; ten novels, including Secret Father; and, most recently, Crusade: Chronicles of an Unjust War. He lectures widely on war and peace and on Jewish-Christian-Muslim reconciliation. Carroll’s new book, House of War: The Pentagon and the Disastrous Rise of American Power is a sweeping yet intimate look at the Pentagon and its vast—often hidden—impact on America.
In Crimes of War—Iraq, Robert Jay Lifton and Irene Gendzier, along with co-editor Richard Falk, present penetrating inquiry into the legal, historical, and psychological dimensions of the war in Iraq in. Robert Jay Lifton is Lecturer in Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School and the Cambridge Health Alliance, and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Psychology, The City University of New York. He was formerly Director of The Center on Violence and Human Survival at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He had previously held the Foundations’ Fund Research Professorship of Psychiatry at Yale University for more than two decades. His books include The Nazi Doctors, Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima (winner of a National Book Award), and Destroying the World to Save It: Aum Shinrikyo, Apocalyptic Violence, and the New Global Terrorism. Irene Gendzier, Professor in the Department of Political Science at Boston University, writes on subjects of U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East and problems of development.
Daniel L. Shapiro, Associate Director of the Harvard Negotiation Project, teaches negotiation at Harvard Law School and in the psychiatry department at Harvard Medical School/McLean Hospital. He is Director and Founder of the Harvard International Negotiation Initiative (INI). Shapiro is co-author, with Roger Fisher, of the bestselling Beyond Reason: Using Emotions as You Negotiate.
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