To Build a Better World: Choices to End the Cold War and Create a Global Commonwealth
Professor of History, Miller Center of Public Affairs, The University of Virginia
Speaker:
Philip Zelikow
Tuesday, October 8, 2019 | 12:15 - 1:45 pm | Harry Ransom Center, Prothro Theater
Philip Zelikow is the White Burkett Miller Professor of History and J. Wilson Newman Professor of Governance at the Miller Center of Public Affairs, both at the University of Virginia. His books and essays focus on critical episodes in American and world history. A former civil rights attorney and career diplomat, he has served at all levels of American government. He was the executive director of the 9/11 Commission and, before that, directed the Carter-Ford commission on federal election reform. He has also worked on international policy in each of the five administrations from Reagan through Obama.