cordially invite you to a book launch of a recent Brookings Institution Press
publication
The Great Experiment
The Story of Ancient Empires, Modern States, and The Quest for a Global Nation
This dramatic narrative of breathtaking scope and riveting focus puts the
"story" back into history. It is the saga of how the most ambitious of big ideas
-- that a world made up of many nations can govern itself peacefully -- has
played out over the millennia. Humankind's "Great Experiment" goes back to the
most ancient of days -- literally to the Garden of Eden -- and into the present,
with an eye to the future.
Offering an insider's view of how the world is governed today, Talbott
interweaves through this epic tale personal insights and experiences and takes
us with him behind the scenes and into the presence of world leaders as they
square off or cut deals with each other. As an acclaimed journalist, he covered
the standoff between the superpowers for more than two decades; as a high-level
diplomat, he was in the thick of tumultuous events in the 1990s, when the
bipolar equilibrium gave way to chaos in the Balkans, the emergence of a new
breed of international terrorist, and America's assertiveness during its
"unipolar moment" -- which he sees as the latest, but not the last, stage in the
Great Experiment.
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
12:00 - 2:00 pm
Auditorium J1-050
World Bank J Building
701 18th Street NW
*RSVP REQUIRED* Please send an email to infoshopevents@worldbank.org
CHAIRED BY
Michele De Nevers
Senior Manager, Sustainable Development Vice-Presidency, World Bank
Ms. de Nevers is the Senior Manager for environment and climate change in the
Sustainable Development Vice-Presidency. She previously was Director of Sector
and Thematic Programs in WBI and has extensive experience in environment and
capacity development issues.
PRESENTED BY AUTHOR
Strobe Talbott
President, The Brookings Institution
Mr. Talbott, whose career spans journalism, government service, and academe, is
an expert on U.S. foreign policy, with specialties on Europe, Russia, South
Asia, and nuclear arms control. As deputy secretary of state in the Clinton
administration, Talbott was deeply involved in both the conduct of U.S. policy
abroad and the management of executive branch relations with Congress.
COMMENTS BY
John van Oudenaren
Director, World Digital Library Project, Library of Congress
Mr. Van Oudenaren directs a team drawn from various parts of the Library that
seeks assistance and advice from within the Library and from collaborating
institutions worldwide to develop a plan for a WDL. He has served as chief of
the Library's European Division since 1996 and he also heads the Library's
Global Gateway digital library project, which was launched in 2000. Prior to
joining the Library, he worked at the RAND Corporation, the U.S. Department of
State and the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies.
Daniel Kaufmann
Director, Global Programs and Governance, World Bank Institute
Mr. Kaufmann has expertise in public sector reform, governance and
anti-corruption. He has also focused much work over the years and written
extensively on investment climate, corporate ethics and business development.
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About the Brookings Institution
The Brookings Institution is a nonprofit public policy organization based in
Washington, DC. The mission is to conduct high-quality, independent research
and, based on that research, to provide innovative, practical recommendations
that advance three broad goals: strengthen American democracy; foster the
economic and social welfare, security and opportunity of all Americans and
secure a more open, safe, prosperous and cooperative international system.
For more information, visit: www.brookings.edu
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forum for substantial debate on international development. Our extensive events
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