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cordially invite you to a book launch of a recent Brookings Institution Press
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| pic12044.jpg) | The Story of Ancient Empires, Modern |
| | States, and The Quest for a Global Nation |
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| Tuesday, April | This dramatic narrative of breathtaking |
| 22, 2008 | scope and riveting focus puts the "story" |
| 12:00 - 2:00 pm | back into history. It is the saga of how |
| Auditorium | the most ambitious of big ideas -- that a |
| J1-050 | world made up of many nations can govern |
| World Bank J | itself peacefully -- has played out over |
| Building | the millennia. Humankind's "Great |
| 701 18th Street | Experiment" goes back to the most ancient |
| NW | of days -- literally to the Garden of |
| A light lunch | Eden -- and into the present, with an eye |
| will follow the | to the future. |
| presentation | |
| | 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. |
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| | For more information about the book and |
| | to order it, please click here. |
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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
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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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