Rise and Fall of Soviet Communism - L10 Stalin, Hitler, and the Road to War
From the Oval Office to the streets of Moscow, world leaders and ordinary citizens alike share interest and concerns about Russia. Can democracy survive there ...
Blackbook Communism & Socialism
Russia After Communism - Bridget Kendall MBE
Russias emergence from Soviet Communism, a revolution without shots, did not result in civil war and bloodshed, as in 1917. But the collapse of the Soviet ...
Gresham College
Lecture 4: Fusing Capitalist Economics with Communist Politics: China and Vietnam
In this lecture, Prof. Shapiro discusses China and Vietnam as the two most successful examples of capitalist authoritarian regimes that have emerged in the ...
YaleCourses
The Road to Unfreedom: Democracy, Neofascism, and the Importance of Language
At this joint event with Intelligence Squared Germany, Yale historian Timothy Snyder addressed the dangers to democracy from deliberate manipulation of the ...
American Academy in Berlin
U.S. Foreign Policy and Russia
Panelists including Tom Nichols, professor of national security affairs at the US Naval War College, Alina Polyakova, David M. Rubenstein Fellow for foreign ...
JFK Library
What is Eurasia? - Stephen Kotkin
2017 History Institute "What is Eurasia? And Why Does It Matter?" Stephen Kotkin, Birkeland Professor in History and International Affairs, Director of Institute of ...
Foreign Policy Research Institute
The USSR in the Cold War Years - Professor Polly Jones
After Stalins death in 1953, successive leaders tried to find ways to revitalise the Soviet regime and rethink its promises to the Soviet people. Life within a system ...
Gresham College
George HW Bush and the End of the Cold War: Crash Course US History #44
You can directly support Crash Course at https://www.patreon.com/crashcourse Subscribe for as little as $0 to keep up with everything we're doing. Free is nice ...
CrashCourse
From the Soviet Republic to the Planned Economy: Lenin, Socialism, and Cold War Modernity
Lenin's enigmatic text State and Revolution has been read as both a key to Soviet history and as an irrelevant curio. In this paper, Columbia Professor Adam ...
NYUJordanCenter
The Politics of A Pandemic | The GoodFellows: Conversations From The Hoover Institution
Recorded June 16, 2020 1PM PT Our guest this week is Francis Fukuyama, the Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International ...
Hoover Institution
The Reagan Revolution: Crash Course US History #43
You can directly support Crash Course at https://www.patreon.com/crashcourse Subscribe for as little as $0 to keep up with everything we're doing. Free is nice ...
CrashCourse
Why Socialism failed in AFRICA | George Ayitteh
Considering capitalism to be equal to colonialism, Africa's founding fathers rejected it and adopted marxist-socialism in the 1960s. Foreign companies were ...
NewAfrica
George Ayittey: The Failure of African Socialism
George Ayittey is a Ghanian economist and the founder and president of the Free Africa Foundation. He also taught economics at American University and is an ...
Libertarianism.org
24. The Collapse of Communism and Global Challenges
European Civilization, 1648-1945 (HIST 202) The disintegration of the Soviet Union resulted from a number of different factors. Three important ones are ...
YaleCourses
A Century of Ideas: One Hundred Years of Democracy and Foreign Policy
The United States was founded on the principles of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and for decades, support for democracy around the world has been ...
Hoover Institution
Lecture 5: The Resurgent Right in the West
What are the sources and implications of the rise of right wing politics in the West in the late 20th century? Prof. Shapiro discusses how the collapse of ...
YaleCourses
Inside Putin's Russia -- Watch the full documentary
Correspondent Nick Schifrin and producer Zach Fannin take us inside Vladimir Putin's Russia, with an in-depth look at the resurgent national identity, the ...
PBS NewsHour
Racism, Antisemitism and the Radical Right - Keynote, Timothy Snyder
The goal of this conference is to map various domestic and foreign iterations of the current far-right, racist, and/or antisemitic ethos, to explore their ideologies ...
YaleUniversity
Asia Forecast 2020
AGENDA 14:00 - 14:10 Welcoming Remarks Michael J. Green, Senior Vice President for Asia and Japan Chair, CSIS; Director of Asian Studies, Georgetown ...
Center for Strategic & International Studies
Stephen Sestanovich, "American Foreign Policy in Historical Perspective"
"American Foreign Policy in Historical Perspective" Speaker: Prof. Stephen Sestanovich Date: October 1, 2007 Course number: U6800 Course title: Conceptual ...
Columbia University
Iran’s Imperial Foreign Policy
Panelists analyze Iran's foreign policy strategy, including their regional ambitions and interventions in Syria and Yemen, and offer recommendations on ways the ...
Council on Foreign Relations
History of China’s Foreign Relations with John Garver
When the People's Republic of China was established in 1949, China was in a state of disarray. Decades of occupation and civil war had left the country ...
National Committee on U.S.-China Relations
Two Roads to War: How (and Why) America and Britain Decided to Invade Iraq
Featuring Patrick Porter, Professor of International Security and Strategy, University of Birmingham, and Senior Associate Fellow, Royal United Services Institute; ...
The Cato Institute
The 2016 US Presidential Election - One Year On - Professor Vernon Bogdanor FBA CBE
One year ago, Donald Trump won the American presidency - the first president in modern times to be elected without any previous political experience.
Gresham College
Takedown: From Communists to Progressives, How the Left Has Sabotaged Family and Marriage
America is witnessing a watershed moment in its cultural history: the sabotaging of family and marriage. Extreme-left radicals have made their arguments and ...
The Heritage Foundation
The Big Ideas of Mr Lee Kuan Yew: Geopolitics
In conjunction of celebrating Mr Lee Kuan Yew's 90th birthday with the LKY School's 9th anniversary, the LKY School hosted a conference to celebrate the big ...
Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
China’s 21st Century Rise in Historical Perspective
Many commentators claim that China's ongoing global rise refects a restoration of its earlier international prominence, while others highlight that China's ...
Center for Strategic & International Studies
Ronald Radosh - Reagan and Communism in Hollywood
Reagan CCA 2011.
Hillsdale College
The General Election of 1945 - Professor Vernon Bogdanor
The 1945 general election saw the return of the first ever majority Labour government. The Gallup poll had shown a Labour lead for over two years.
Gresham College
Can America and China Avoid a Collision?
Kishore Mahbubani, an expert on Asian and world affairs who spent many years in Singapore's diplomatic service, gives the annual George Ball Lecture at ...
Columbia SIPA
The Belt and Road Long Conversation — Part 1
ZURICH, April 2, 2019 — In this first part of the "Belt and Road Long Conversation," Bruno Maçães delivers a keynote speech and talks to Rhodium Group's ...
Asia Society
APUSH Key Concept 8.1.I: American Foreign Policy in the Cold War
Robert Chodola
Uncovering Communist China | Mao's Cold War (Chinese Communism Documentary) | Timeline
The Cold War. In the decades following World War II, a new era of frosty relationship was ushered between the greatest superpowers of the time. We know much ...
Timeline - World History Documentaries
Conversations With History: American Foreign Policy
Host Harry Kreisler welcomes Derek Chollet and James Goldgeier for a discussion of U.S. foreign policy from the Fall of the Berlin Wall until the attack on 9/11.
University of California Television (UCTV)
Meeting the Challenge of the Chinese Communist Party During and After COVID-19
After allowing the COVID-19 pandemic to spread through recklessness and malfeasance, the Chinese Communist Party is seeking to accelerate the shift of ...
Hudson Institute
Tyranny Comes Home: The Domestic Fate of U.S. Militarism
Tyranny Comes Home: The Domestic Fate of U.S. Militarism (Stanford University Press, 2018) Featuring the authors Christopher J. Coyne, Associate Professor ...
The Cato Institute
Road warriors: Foreign fighters in the armies of jihad
On May 10, Brookings hosted the launch event for Senior Fellow Dan Byman's latest book, “Road Warriors: Foreign Fighters in the Armies of Jihad,” with ...
Brookings Institution
Conversations with History: Robert Jervis
Host Harry Kreisler welcomes Columbia University political scientist Robert Jervis for a discussion of theory in international relations. Their discussion includes ...
University of California Television (UCTV)
Victims Of Anti-Communism w/ Vincent Bevins
The historic sins of communism and fascism are well documented. Often ignored, however, is murder and violence done in the name of anti-communism, and ...
Novara Media
Henry L. Stimson Lectures on World Affairs: Never Closer Union. Does the EU Have a Future?
The fourth talk in the series "Henry L. Stimson Lectures on World Affairs: Britain and Europe in a Troubled World with Vernon Bogdanor." Vernon Bogdanor is a ...
YaleUniversity
China in the World With Kevin Rudd and Orville Schell
NEW YORK, June 6, 2018 — Asia Society Policy Institute President Kevin Rudd discusses his new book Not for the Faint Hearted and his personal reflections on ...
Asia Society
The future of the Communist Party of China
On Tuesday, the Communist Party of China's newly-elected top leadership, headed by General Secretary Xi Jinping, visited the Party's birthplace in Shanghai ...
CGTN
