Lessons from the Cold War with Melvyn Leffler

The United States faces major grand strategic challenges in the years ahead. This talk by one of America's leading diplomatic historians explains what current policymakers can learn from the experience of the Cold War as they seek to deal with the problems and opportunities that the country currently confronts. Melvyn P. Leffler is Edward R. Stettinius professor in the Department of History at the University of Virginia. He served as the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at U.Va. from 1997¿2001. In 1993 he won the Bancroft Prize for A Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman Administration and the Cold War (1992) and, in 2008, won the George Louis Beer Prize for his book, For the Soul of Mankind: the United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War (Hill & Wang, 2007).The event will take place in Rhodes Conference Room 223 in the Sanford Building at 4:30 p.m. on Monday, October 21.