After the Apocalypse: America's Role in a World Transformed
January 10, 2022
1:15pm
Presented by Dr. Andrew Bacevich via Zoom seminar
The program is free and open to the public, but you will need to sign up in advance here.
1:15pm
Presented by Dr. Andrew Bacevich via Zoom seminar
The program is free and open to the public, but you will need to sign up in advance here.
Andrew Bacevich
After the Apocalypse: America's Role in a World Transformed
Dr. Andrew Bacevich, retired U.S. Army Colonel, Professor Emeritus at Boston University, and now President of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, will present a bold and urgent perspective on how American foreign policy must change in response to the shifting world order of the twenty-first century.
He will explore the implications of recent events and how to confront them: The Covid pandemic and related economic crisis, frustrations of the "forever wars," porous borders, reckoning with racism and the white populist backlash, the ascendance of information technology over brute weapons of war, and dysfunction in our national politics. And he will propose an alternative to the existing national security paradigm.
Dr. Bacevich is a New York Times best-selling author whose vision calls for nothing less than a profound overhaul of our understanding of national security. In this provocative presentation, he will set out new principles to guide the once-but-no-longer sole superpower as it navigates a transformed world. For example, he feels that both policymakers and average citizens overestimate the usefulness of military force in foreign affairs. Heavily romanticized images of war in our popular culture, combined with the low rate of actual military service, produce a highly unrealistic, even dangerous notion of what combat and military service are really like.
Dr. Andrew Bacevich, retired U.S. Army Colonel, Professor Emeritus at Boston University, and now President of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, will present a bold and urgent perspective on how American foreign policy must change in response to the shifting world order of the twenty-first century.
He will explore the implications of recent events and how to confront them: The Covid pandemic and related economic crisis, frustrations of the "forever wars," porous borders, reckoning with racism and the white populist backlash, the ascendance of information technology over brute weapons of war, and dysfunction in our national politics. And he will propose an alternative to the existing national security paradigm.
Dr. Bacevich is a New York Times best-selling author whose vision calls for nothing less than a profound overhaul of our understanding of national security. In this provocative presentation, he will set out new principles to guide the once-but-no-longer sole superpower as it navigates a transformed world. For example, he feels that both policymakers and average citizens overestimate the usefulness of military force in foreign affairs. Heavily romanticized images of war in our popular culture, combined with the low rate of actual military service, produce a highly unrealistic, even dangerous notion of what combat and military service are really like.