Videos
Below find a list of videos of Einaudi Center events, with the most recent videos appearing at the top.
2013 Olin Lecture: The Meaning of the Vietnam War; 06/07/2013
Eric Alterman, Distinguished Professor of English and Journalism at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism and columnist for The Nation, gave a talk entitled The Search for a Liberal Foreign Policy on April 22, as part of the Einaudi Center's Foreign Policy Distinguished Speaker Series.
Alterman contends that there has not been a strong tradition of liberal foreign policy after Franklin D. Roosevelt because liberals make foreign policy in anticipation of public reaction and to head off any strong conservative critique rather than focusing on finding a solution to the issue itself.
The Foreign Policy Distinguished Speaker Series features prominent leaders in international affairs who can address topical issues from a variety of perspectives. The Speaker Series is part of the Foreign Policy Initiative at Cornell University led by the Einaudi Center to maximize the intellectual impact of Cornell's outstanding resources in this area.
Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Senior Correspondent and Associate Editor of The Washington Post, gave a talk entitled The Surge to Uncertainty: An Examination of America's Strategy in Afghanistan on April 2 in the Lewis Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall, as part of the Einaudi Center's Foreign Policy Distinguished Speaker Series.
Rajiv Chandrasekaran is the author of Little America: The War Within the War for Afghanistan (June 2012, Knopf). From 2009 to 2011, he reported on the war in Afghanistan for The Post, traveling extensively through the southern provinces of Helmand and Kandahar to reveal the impact of President Obama's decision to double U.S. force levels. He joined The Post in 1994 as a reporter on the Metropolitan staff. He subsequently served as the paper's Washington-based national technology correspondent.
A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, he holds a degree in political science from Stanford University, where he was editor in chief of The Stanford Daily. He lives in Washington, D.C.
The World Financial Crisis: Where Are We Now and Where Are We Going?; 03/21/2013
Charles Kupchan, Professor of International Affairs in the School of Foreign Service and Government Department at Georgetown University and Whitney H. Shepardson Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, gave a talk entitled After Pax Americana: No One's World on February 21, as part of the Einaudi Center's Foreign Policy Distinguished Speaker Series.
Kupchan was Director for European Affairs on the National Security Council during the first Clinton administration. Before joining the NSC, he worked in the U.S. Department of State on the Policy Planning Staff. Prior to government service, he was an Assistant Professor of Politics at Princeton University.
Kishore Mahbubani, Dean and Professor at the National University of Singapore and former Singapore Ambassador to the UN and President of the United Nations Security Council, gave the Henry E. and Nancy Horton Bartels 2013 World Affairs Fellowship Lecture on February 13, sponsored by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies.
Mahbubani spoke on The Great Convergence: Asia, the West, and the Logic of One World, which is also the title of his most recent book published earlier this year. Described as "the muse of the Asian century," he has been selected to Foreign Policy's Top Global Thinkers in 2010 and 2011 and was included in the Financial Timeslist of Top 50 individuals who would shape the debate on the future of capitalism in March 2009.
The 2012 Lund Critical Debate took place on Wednesday, November 14, focusing on the rise of China, under the title "Is China the New Superpower?"
The speakers are David Lampton, Dean of Faculty, George and Sadie Hyman Professor of China Studies, and Director of the China Studies Program at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), and Aaron Friedberg, Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University. Allen Carlson, Professor of Government at Cornell University, served as the moderator for the event.
The annual Lund Critical Debate Series is part of the Einaudi Center's Foreign Policy Initiative.
Timothy Snyder, Housum Professor of History at Yale University, gave a talk entitled "Thinking the 20th Century" October 1, 2012 in Lewis Auditorium as part of the Einaudi Center's Foreign Policy Distinguished Speaker Series.
Snyder began his talk by discussing his collaboration with Tony Judt, who worked on as many as three books in the time between his diagnosis of ASL (Lou Gehrig's Disease) and his death in August of 2010.
Snyder received his doctorate from the University of Oxford in 1997, where he was a British Marshall Scholar. Before joining the faculty at Yale in 2001, he held fellowships in Paris and Vienna, and an Academy Scholarship at Harvard. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in modern East European political history.
Michelle Bachelet, president of Chile from 2006 to 2010, gave the Henry E. and Nancy Horton Bartels 2012 World Affairs Fellowship Lecture on September 4.
Bachelet spoke on "Women and the New Development Paradigm." She is the first undersecretary-general and executive director of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. UN Women works with governments, civil society and the private sector to advance women's empowerment and gender equality worldwide.
Bachelet, a physician and surgeon, became the first woman to be elected president in the history of the Republic of Chile. A long-time champion of women's rights, she has advocated for gender equality and women's empowerment throughout her career.
Dr. Duvvuri Subbarao, Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, addressed policy dilemmas in India in a talk entitled "India in a Globalized World: Some Policy Dilemmas," on August 28.
The talk will be given as part of the Einaudi Center's Foreign Policy Distinguished Speaker Series. Dr. Subbarao assumed office as the twenty-second Governor of the Reserve Bank of India on September 5, 2008. Prior to this appointment, Dr. Subbarao served as Finance Secretary to the Government of India from April 2007 to September 2008 and as Secretary to the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council from March 2005 to March 2007.
Professor David Lee, spoke about "Sustainability: Economics, Environment, and Equity" at the National Academy of Engineering Regional Symposium on May 16, 2012.
Cornell University and the College of Engineering hosted the Regional Symposium of the National Academy of Engineering on the topic, "Toward a Sustainable Future." The symposium brought together distinguished Cornell University faculty members to address the numerous elements of sustainability from the perspective of the physical sciences and engineering, environment, economics, business development, international implications and social sciences.
Professor Ronald Herring, spoke about "What's Science Got to Do with It? Politics of Sustainability" at the National Academy of Engineering Regional Symposium on May 16, 2012.
Cornell University and the College of Engineering hosted the Regional Symposium of the National Academy of Engineering on the topic, "Toward a Sustainable Future." The symposium brought together distinguished Cornell University faculty members to address the numerous elements of sustainability from the perspective of the physical sciences and engineering, environment, economics, business development, international implications and social sciences.
Peter Beinart, Schwartz Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation and associate professor of journalism and political science at the City University of New York, spoke at Cornell on May 1, 2012.
The talk was part of the Einaudi Center's Foreign Policy Distinguished Speaker Series.
Before the 2008 financial crisis, says Lord Robert Skidelsky, many economists based their analyses on theoretical models in which unregulated markets resulted in the most productivity. But according to Skidelsky, relying on these models to guide real-life economic decisions can have a disastrous effect on international policy.
Skidelsky, professor of political economy at the University of Warwick, delivered his first lecture as an A.D. White Professor-at-Large on April 18, 2012. The talk was given as part of the Einaudi Center's Foreign Policy Distinguished Speaker Series.
Renowned experts offered their assessment of the EU financial crisis in an international public forum March 30, 2012. Scholars and practitioners debated the merits of the Euro Zone as well as the best way forward for European economies.
In this session, hear the perspectives of European experts Antonio de Lecea, Minister and Principal Advisor for Economic and Financial Affairs, EU Delegation to the USA; Edouard Francois de Lencquesaing, Managing Director, European Institute of Financial Regulation; and Professor Petia Kostadinova, Department of Political Science, University of Illinois at Chicago.
The forum was organized by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies and supported by the European Union Commission.