Harry Kreisler is executive producer and host of the series, which is produced at the Institute of International Studies at the University of California - Berkeley. Conceived in 1982 by Mr. Kreisler as a way to capture and preserve through conversation and technology the intellectual ferment of our times, Conversations with History includes over 450 interviews.
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Diplomacy
Alfred L. Atherton; Former U.S. Ambassador
at Large, Middle East; and former Director General of the Foreign Service:
"The Peace Process
in the Middle East"," 2/28/86
Lakhdar
Brahimi ; UN Special Envoy: "Negotiating," 4/5/05
Guenter Burghardt; Head of the European Union Delegation
to the United States: "The
European Union and Transatlantic Relations," 3/7/02
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Lord Carrington; Secretary-General of NATO: "Diplomacy,
the Nuclear Arms Race, and East - West Relations," 10/25/84
Ambassador James Dobbins; Director, International
Security and Defense Policy Center, Rand Corporation: "Nation
Building," 2/28/05
Stuart E. Eizenstat; former Deputy Secretary
of the Treasury: "Politics,
Law, and the Search for 'Imperfect Justice," 4/30/03
Robert Gallucci; Dean of the Walsh School of Foreign Service,
Georgetown University: "U.S.
Foreign Policy and Multilateral Negotiations," 2/11/02
Allan Gotlieb; former Canadian Ambassador
to the U.S.: "A Canadian Diplomat in the
United States," 1/26/89
Philip Habib; diplomat: "The
Work of Diplomacy," 5/14/82
Sung-Joo Han; Ambassador of the Republic of
Korea: "Diplomacy and International
Politics," 10/30/03
Franklin Pierce Huddle; U.S. Ambassador to
Tajikistan: "U.S. Policy in Central
Asia," 1/15/03
Josef Joffe;
Editor and Publisher, Die Zeit: "The
Imperial Temptation of America,"
10/22/07
Elizabeth A. Jones; Assistant Secretary of
State for Europe and Eurasia: "U.S.
Foreign Policy: Continuity and Change after 9/11," 10/22/02
Jeremy Kinsman;
Diplomat-in-Residence, Princeton University: "Diplomacy," 11/21/08
Stephen D. Krasner; Graham H. Stuart Professor of International Relations,
Stanford University: "Sovereignty*," 3/31/03;
"System Change or
More of the Same", 10/29/2007
(2003) (2007)
Samuel Lewis; Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel
and President of the U.S. Peace Institute: "Reflections
on the Work of Diplomacy and the Peace Process," 11/15/88
Princeton Lyman; Ralph Bunche Senior Fellow, Council
on Foreign Relations: "U.S.
Foreign Policy and Globalization," 2/28/02; and "A
Strategic U.S. Approach to Africa," 2/16/06
(2002)
video (2006)
Jack Matlock; former U.S. Ambassador to the
Soviet Union: "Collapse of Soviet Union
and End of the Cold War," 2/13/97
video
Kishore Mahbubani; Dean, Lee Kuan Yee School
of Public Policy, Singapore: "America
and the World," 3/12/05
video
Ambassador David D. Newsom; former Undersecretary of
State: "Reflections of a Diplomat," 6/13/02
Pierre Schori; Permanent Representative of Sweden to
the UN: "Sweden and the United
Nations," 4/20/04
Paul Warnke; Former U.S. SALT Negotiator and Former Director,
Arms Control and Disarmament Agency: "Prospects
for Arms Control," 10/25/84
Earl Anthony Wayne; Assistant Secretary for Economic
and Business Affairs: "U.S.
Economic Policy after 9/11," 12/13/04
Joseph Wilson, IV; Former U.S. Ambassador: "A
Diplomat's Odyssey," 5/27/04
Anthony Zinni;
Former Commander in Chief of the Central Command: "Challenges
for U.S. National Security Policy," 4/23/07
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