Previous Krasno Events - Fall 2012 to the Spring 2017
1. “Ambassadors Forum” 2. “The U.S. in World Affairs,” lecture series with eminent scholars 3. “5-Minute Insights – conversations with….” 4. Other events (film screenings/round table discussions)
1. AMBASSADORS FORUM Ambassador Michael Collins (Ambassador of the Republic of Ireland to the United States), "Ireland and the Euro Crisis," September 7, 2012. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7Tuc18pU1k
Ambassador Olexander Motsyk (Ambassador of Ukraine to the United States), "Ukraine in Global Politics: Relations with Russia, Europe and the US," October 10, 2012. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkno5yvODAo
Ambassador Temuri Yakobashvili (Ambassador of the Republic of Georgia to the United States), "Georgia in World Affairs: Partnerships and Foreign Policy Priorities," November 12, 2012. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GSqfu4C2Qs
Ambassador Philip T. Reeker (former U.S. ambassador to Macedonia; Deputy Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian affairs), "The Balkans: From War and 'Ethnic Cleansing' to Democratization and Integration into Europe," January 29, 2013. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fpz9ZvYUap8
Ambassador Andras Simonyi (former Ambassador of Hungary to the U.S.), “Hungary, Transatlantic Relations, and the EU,” February 21, 2013. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZqQdGN5PW0
Ambassador Frank G. Wisner (former US ambassador to Egypt, Zambia, Philippines and India), "The United States, Europe and the Crises in the Middle East," September 17, 2013. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLaOsuKlBxE
Ambassador Thomas Pickering (former US ambassador to Russia, India, Israel, El Salvador, Nigeria, Jordan & UN), "The US & the EU: Dealing with Iran, Syria, Russia and Ukraine," March 27, 2014. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05E2_Vkt5KI
Ambassador Jack Matlock (former U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia), "From Gorbachev to Putin: Russia and the United States in the post-Cold War World,” November 13, 2014. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxVkaKAtQwg
Ambassador Anne Anderson (Ambassador of Ireland to the U.S.), "Ireland in Global Affairs--Overcoming the Euro Crisis," April 23, 2015. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-0Z8Qyokas
2. “THE U.S. IN WORLD AFFAIRS: THE COLD WAR AND BEYOND” lecture series with eminent scholars
2016: Prof. Klaus Larres (UNC-Chapel Hill), “The China Factor in Transatlantic Relations and the North Korean Challenge,” September 16, 2016.
Prof. Stephen Rabe (University of Texas at Dallas), "Torture, Murder and Genocide: Cold War Memories in Latin America & the USA," February 29, 2015. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttoS5Z3XXOw
General Daniel Bolger (NC State University), "Why We Lost the Wars in Afghanistan & Iraq: the U.S. and the Global War on Terrorism," March 17, 2015. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjB3YXn1q-A
Prof. Frederiga Bindi (University of Rome, Italy), "The End of U.S. Global Leadership? Why the U.S. and Europe are Doomed to Irrelevance," April 7, 2015. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duK7rOO6bJw
Prof. Klaus Larres (UNC-Chapel Hill), "Winston S. Churchill, the U.S. & Peace Negotiations: Lessons for the 21st Century?" September 10, 2015. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYsS4FZyn4E
Prof. Stephen Szabo (Executive Director of the Transatlantic Academy, German Marshall Fund, Washington, DC), "Germany Confronts Russia--Merkel and Putin: Geo-Economics vs Geo-Politics?" September 29, 2015. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_Rg5y6Sy9k
Prof. Jeffrey Herff (University of Maryland, College Park), "War & Terror against Israel: Germany, the US & Israel during the Cold War & the post-9/11 World,” Oct. 8, 2015. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtH96aLEiDc
Dr Malcolm Byrne (National Security Archive, Washington, DC), "The US and Iran - Lessons Learned?: Missed Opportunities from the 1953 Coup to the 2015 Nuclear Deal," October 22, 2015. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8Tkdjk0HYw
Dr. William Burr (National Security Archive, Washington, DC) and Prof. Jeffrey Kimball (University of Miami, Ohio) – joint talk on “Nixon, Kissinger, the Madman Theory, and the Vietnam War," November 10, 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWealfaHKI8
Prof. Peter Eltzov (National Defense University) and Dr Peter Rugenthaler (University of Graz, Austria) – two separate talks on “Russia, Europe and the United States,” November 17, 2015. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkFC-AVPmjk
2014: Prof. Robert McMahon (Ohio State University), "Fragile Partnerships: The US and its Asian Allies from the Cold War to the Present," January 30, 2014. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IxjcYL6Oqg
Prof. Guenter Bischof (University of New Orleans), "George H.W. Bush & the End of the Cold War in E. Europe: The Acceleration of History in 1989," March 4, 2014. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDkm8vL9HLI
Dr. Svetlana Savranskaya (National Security Archive, Washington, DC), "Cuba as Nuclear Power? The Secret Missiles of November 1962." April 3, 2014. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWoLHW8Q88I
Prof. George Herring (University of Kentucky), "Looking Back, Thinking Ahead: US Foreign Policy in Perspective," April 15, 2014. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uugeTChXYyM
Dr. John Judis (The New Republic), "Harry Truman and the Creation of Israel, the Failure to Resolve the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict," Sept. 9, 2014. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNnU3H72sEI
Prof. Gerhard Weinberg ( UNC-Chapel Hill), “Cold War Borders: The Making of the New Frontiers of Europe During WWII,” October 28, 2014. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42V35ynScNI
Dr. Robert Litwak (Wilson Center, Washington, DC), "Global Nuclear Threats: Iran and North Korea – What to Do about Them?" November 4, 2014. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLxT0rbDDWg
Professor H.W. Brands (University of Texas-Austin), "Who Won the Cold War? Reagan, Gorbachev, and the World they Destroyed," November 20, 2014. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExwSBuX6iw0
2013: Prof. William Leuchtenberg ( UNC-Chapel Hill), "US Presidents and Foreign Policy: From Harry Truman to Barack Obama," January 22, 2013. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iF11QfUgo6Q
Prof. Frank Costigliola (University of Connecticut), "The Process of Thought in George Kennan's Imagining of Russia," February 7, 2013. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-E6n6EkxyI
Prof. Melvyn Leffler (University of Virginia), "George W. Bush and Saddam Hussein: Why Did the US Go to War Against Iraq in March 2003?," Feb. 18, 2013. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNOYU37Ia8I
Prof. Warren Kimball (Rutgers University), "Nuclear Weapons, Roosevelt, Churchill, and the Transition to the Cold War World," March 5, 2013. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tM_HbhVvfXU
Prof. Alfred McCoy (University of Wisconsin-Madison), "Epistemology of Empire: Asian Wars, Information Regimes, and the Future of US Global Power," March 25, 2013. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpyLinQXvHg
Prof. Martin Sherwin (George Mason University), "Gambling With Armageddon: The Cuban Missile Crisis from Hiroshima to Havana," October 8, 2013. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=247_dMiiNXo
Prof. Thomas Schwartz (Vanderbilt University), "Rock Star Diplomacy: Henry Kissinger, the Media, and the Politics of American Foreign Policy," Nov. 14, 2013. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imABEzyU6q8
Prof. Carolyn Eisenberg (Hofstra University), "Nixon, Kissinger and the National Security State: Cold War Lessons for the Post-Cold War Era," Nov. 19, 2013. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvbQ1KKzCL4
Prof. Lloyd Gardner (Rutgers University), "A View of the Imperial Presidency: Developments from Korea to the War of the Drones," October 8, 2012. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UP0Wf3pQpKA
Prof. Mark Kramer (Harvard University), "Cold War Myths & Realities: Understanding Today's Threats & Challenges in Historical Perspective," Oct 23, '12. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zHnjw1o72A
Prof. Michael Hunt (UNC-Chapel Hill), "US Nationalism(s) and the World: Thinking About a Country in Disarray," December 4, 2012. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyfGhPXTBfw
3. “5-MINUTE INSIGHTS – Klaus Larres in conversation with…..” short succinct interviews on global affairs for our you tube channel
4. OTHER EVENTS – documentary film screenings, round table discussions, etc
Film screening of a documentary movie on “German Reunification” and roundtable discussion on “From Hitler to Merkel: German American Relations” with film author and producer Carl-Ludwig Paeschke (German television). Other discussants: Konrad Jarausch, Brittany Lehman, Klaus Larres (all UNC-CH). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LemquFpw92U
Film screening and discussion of “Argentina’s Dirty War and the U.S. (1976-1983): Finding the Missing Grandchildren,” with film director Charlie Tuggle and discussant Hodding Carter, former Assistant Secretary of State, February 2, 2015. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0y6EMvKXJI
Roundtable discussion on the German general election of 2013 (discussants: Konrad Jarausch, Helga Welsh, Holger Moroff and Klaus Larres), September 24, 2013. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8apvpEPFJI
Fall semester 2017 Prof. Robbert Dijkgraaf (Director, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ) "The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge" (Sept. 14, 2017)
Ambassador Christian Prosl and Ambassador Franz Cede "Small but Influential: Austria and the World from 1945 to the Present" (Oct. 13)
International conference: TRANSNATIONAL TERRORISM TODAY: HOW DO THE TRANSATLANTIC ALLIES DEAL WITH TERRORISM? (organized by Klaus Larres and Tobias Hof, UNC-Chapel Hill) Keynote address by Prof. Bruce Hofman of Georgetown University on November 9, 5.30pm (Family Pleasants Room, Wilson Library)