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- Category: EA July 2013
- Created on 25 July 2013
Jason Healey’s new book “A Fierce Domain,” is a fascinating compilation of essays on the “history” of global cyber conflict. A graduate of the Air Force Academy who served in an early cyber war unit of the U.S. Air Force, Healey has a wide ranging background that includes time as a Goldman Sachs vice-president in Hong Kong and director for Cyber Infrastructure Protection at the White House under President George W. Bush. He is currently director of the Cyber Statecraft Initiative at the Atlantic Council and an adjunct professor at Georgetown.
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- Category: EA April 2012
- Created on 16 April 2012
The adventures of Americans in London and Paris in the 1920s and1930s have often been chronicled and lionized. Curiously, the experiences of Americans in Berlin in those inter-war years have received attention in inverse proportion to Berlin’s centrality in shaping those very years for Europe and ultimately the Western world and indeed Russia, as well.True, there are memoirs of some participants (as there are by Germans and other Europeans involved in those tumultuous times). But until now there has been a gap in the literature about the perceptions and reactions of the American journalists and diplomats posted to the German capital and the celebrities and other American visitors to Germany in the Hitler years.
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- Category: EA November 2011
- Created on 02 December 2011
In the waning years of the last century there was great hope -- and hype -- about the “global 
market" brought about by new technologies. In the early years of this new century, the darker side of the global market has become more evident as economic trouble anywhere becomes economic trouble everywhere: e.g., the failure of Lehman caused a global contagion.
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- Category: EA November 2011
- Created on 16 November 2011
Amid Intrigues in Wartime Lisbon, Portugal Shrewdly Protected Its Global Interests ------- Everyone is familiar with the classic World War II movie “Casablanca,” a North African cockpit of intrigue and romance, of spies and profiteers – and of refugees scrambling desperately for visas and transport to escape the advancing grasp of Nazi power. In the film, Casablanca is immortalized as scene of the last flight to Lisbon, jumping-off point to the U.S. or South America.
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- Category: EA July 2011
- Created on 24 July 2011
How Paris Taught Modernity to 19th-Century America ------- In his new best-seller, a renowned and 
popular American historian unearths and brings vividly to life a rich high point in France’s tradition of incubating the talents of Americans who go on to change their own nation’s destiny. His book fills a gap of neglect. Until now, Americans have generally viewed their nation’s cultural and intellectual debts to France as arising from two key periods – in the late 18th century and early part of the 20th century. The first involved the French role in the American revolution through military assistance to General George Washington and via the Enlightenment’s inspiration for the Founding Fathers’ revolutionary concept of freedom. The second period featured Paris as an artistic hot-house for expatriate American artists and writers such as Ernest Hemingway in the 1920s.
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