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History Professor Examines Cold War Lessons

Date: October 16
Location: LBJ Library, Brown Room
Time: 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

The Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law presents a discussion, "Cold War Lessons and Contemporary Dilemmas" with Melvyn Leffler, professor of American History at The University of Virginia.

Leffler will discuss how studying the Cold War can help us to think about threats, priorities, goals and methods as the United States grapples with unprecedented challenges at home and abroad. The talk will be based on his latest book, "For the Soul of Mankind: the United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War," which Foreign Affairs magazine called a "masterful account of the Cold War."

This presentation is part of the Strauss Center's International Security Speaker Series, which features leading scholars and policy practitioners discussing challenges and solutions for meeting the security demands of the modern world.

About the Strauss Center

The Strauss Center works to engage the best minds in academia, government and the private sector in developing practical solutions to the pressing problems of an increasingly globalized world. Randy Diehl, dean of the College of Liberal Arts, serves on the center's governing board, and seven liberal arts professors are Strauss Center fellows for 2008-09.

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