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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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Europe Today: Change and Unification

AliTariq Ali; Editor, New Left Review: "Islam, Empire, and the Left," 5/8/03

Anderson Perry Anderson; Professor of History and Sociology, UCLA; Editor, New Left Review: "Reflections on the Left from the Left," 4/27/01

Andriessen Frans Andriessen; former Vice President of the European communities: "The Transformation of Europe," 10/26/93

ArbatovAlexey G. Arbatov; Member of the State Duma of the Russian Federation: "Making Foreign Policy in Democratic Russia," 3/4/03

BurghardtGuenter Burghardt; Head of the European Union Delegation to the United States: "The European Union and Transatlantic Relations," 3/7/02

ACampoEmile a Campo; Director-General, Council of Ministers of the European Communities: "Europe and 1992," 11/14/88

CarringtonLord Carrington; Secretary-General of NATO: "Diplomacy, the Nuclear Arms Race, and East - West Relations," 10/25/84

CastellsManuel Castells; Professor of Sociology and City & Regional Planning, UCB: "Identity and Change in the Network Society," 5/9/01

DahrendorfSir Ralf Dahrendorf; Warden of St. Antony's College, Oxford: "Straddling Theory and Practice," 4/4/89

D'AlemaMassimo D'Alema; former Prime Minister of Italy and President of the Democrats of the Left party: "Italy, Europe, and the Left," 6/11/02
Vedi anche l'intervista con D'Alema in Italiano.

DonnellyAlan Donnelly; Member of the European Parliament: "Preparing Europe for Monetary Union," 4/6/98

EizenstatStuart E. Eizenstat; former U.S. Ambassador to the European Union: "Politics, Law, and the Search for 'Imperfect Justice,'" 4/30/03

FergusonNiall Ferguson; John Herzog Professor of Financial History, New York University: "Money and Power," 11/3/03

Garton AshTimothy Garton Ash; Fellow at St. Antony's College, Oxford: "An Intellectual Odyssey," 5/4/96

GradinAnita Gradin; Swedish legislator and diplomat; former European Commissioner: "Securing the Rights of Women," 2/28/01

HaasErnst B. Haas; Robson Research Professor of Government, UC Berkeley: "Science and Progress in International Relations," 10/30/00

Hanrieder Wolfram Hanrieder; Professor of Political Science, UC Santa Barbara: "Germany," 3/5/90

HarveyDavid Harvey; Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, City University of New York: "A European Perspective on the New American Imperialism," 3/2/04

HitchensChristopher Hitchens; Writer: "A Dissenting Voice," 4/25/02

HowardSir Michael Howard; Robert A. Lovett Professor of History, Yale University: "The Transformation of Europe," 5/4/90

Joffe Joffe, Josef; Editor and Publisher, Die Zeit:
"Power and Culture in International Affairs," 1/20/00  video1, 2000,  2000;
"Alliance Lost: The U.S. and Europe in a Unipolar World," 4/4/03  , 2003;
"The U.S. and Europe after the Iraq War,"
4/12/04  2004;
"The Imperial Temptation of America," 10/22/07 2007

JonesElizabeth A. Jones; Assistant Secretary of State for Europe and Eurasia: "U.S. Foreign Policy: Continuity and Change after 9/11," 10/22/02

KellyPetra Kelly, Member of the Green Party and Member of the Bundestag; and Gert Bastian, Retired General and Member of the Bundestag: "The European Peace Movement," 10/23/84

KeohaneRobert O. Keohane; James B. Duke Professor of Political Science, Duke University: "Theory and International Institutions," 3/9/04

KingSir David King; Science Advisor to the Prime Minister of Great Britain: "Science and Public Policy," 9/15/05

KinnockNeil Kinnock; Member of British Parliament and former Head of the Labour Party of Great Britain: "The Work of Politics," 3/9/94

Krasner Stephen D. Krasner; Graham H. Stuart Professor of International Relations, Stanford University: "Sovereignty*," 3/31/03

Krenzler Horst Krenzler; former European Commission Director General for External Relations: "Europe and the World," 9/30/99

LievenAnatol Lieven; Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for Peace: "A European Perspective on American Nationalism," 5/6/04

LiljelundLars-Erik Liljelund; Director General of the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency: "Climate Change and Public Policy," 3/20/06

LundestadGeir Lundestad; Secretary of the Norwegian Nobel Commission: "The Nobel Peace Prize and International Relations," 9/20/05

MacEnteeMaire MacEntee; Irish poet and scholar: "An Irish Voice of Poetry," 4/4/00

MarmotSir Michael Marmot; Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College, London: "Redefining Public Health: Epidemiology and Social Stratification," 3/18/02

MellbournAnders Melbourn; Director of the Swedish Institute of International Affairs: "Sweden in the Post-9/11 World," 4/19/04

MicossiStefano Micossi; Director General of the Industry Directorate of the European Commission: "Europe and the Information Revolution," 4/2/97

NaglerGerald Nagler; Chair of the Swedish Helsinki Committee for Human Rights: "The Human Rights Movement and the Helsinki Process," 4/30/02

NaumkinVitaly Naumkin; President, International Center for Strategic and Political Studies, Moscow: "Islam and State Power in the Middle East and Central Asia," 2/19/03

O'BrienConor Cruise O'Brien; Irish statesman and writer: "The Power of Ideas," 4/4/00

Patten Patten, Christopher; Great Britain*: "Shaping Environmental Policy," 8/10/89:  (1989);
"Ideas, Political Leadership, and the Lessons of Hong Kong," 4/8/99:  (1999);
"Europe and the World," 1/30/06:  (2006)

*The Right Honorable Lord Patten's professional titles have changed over the years; see specific interviews.

PeressGilles Peress; photographer, Magnum Photos: "Images, Reality, and the Curse of History," 4/10/97

PeretzHenri Peretz; Professor of Sociology, University of Paris: "Oral History in Sociological Research," 5/14/02

PfaffWilliam Pfaff; columnist, International Herald Tribune: "The End of the Cold War in Europe," 5/7/90

PlumbLord Plumb of Coleshill; DL MEP, former President of the European Parliament (1987-1989): "An Englishman Talks about his Commitment to the European Community," 1/26/90

RampiniFederico Rampini; West Coast and Pacific Rim Correspondent, La Repubblica: "Europe and the Left," 9/25/02

RehnOlli Rehn; Research Director, University of Finland: "Finland in a Changing World," 2/26/03

Roy Roy, Olivier; Senior Researcher, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris: "The Political Imagination of Islam," 4/16/02; and "Globalization and Islam," 1/25/07
 (2002)  (2007)

RuanRuan Zongze; Vice President, Chinese Institute of International Studies, Beijing: "China, the United States, and Europe," 9/23/03

SchoriPierre Schori; Permanent Representative of Sweden to the UN: "Sweden and the United Nations," 4/20/04

SpethmannDieter Spethmann; former Chairman of the Board of Managing Directors of Thyssen: "Continuity and Change in the German Steel Industry," 3/15/02

Tornudd Klaus Tornudd; Embassador of Finland to the United Nations: "Finland's Foreign Policy in a Changing World," 12/5/88

UrquhartSir Brian Urquhart; former Undersecretary-General of the United Nations: "A Life in Peace and War," 3/19/96; and "The United Nations after 9/11," 2/23/04
 (1996)  (2004)

VilenJari Vilén; Minister for Foreign Trade, Finland: "Finland and the Global Economy," 1/23/03

VoigtKarsten Voigt; Coordinator for German-American Cooperation; German Foreign Office: "Democracy and Foreign Policy," 2 /16/01

WalleynLuc Walleyn ; Human Rights Lawyer: "Humanitarian Law," 4/16/03

WattsMichael Watts; Chancellor's Professor of Geography and Development Studies, UC Berkeley: "The Local-Global Dialectic: A Geographer's Perspective," 7/26/01

WeberSteven Weber; Professor of Political Science, UC Berkeley: "Power in the Information Age," 4/28/03

JonesHarold L. Wilensky; Professor Emeritus of Political Science, UC Berkeley: "Comparing Rich Democracies," 10/29/02


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