The Sinews of Power: Rediscovering the Foundations of National Strength (Audio)
Listen to Paul M. Kennedy, director of International Security Studies and the Dilworth Professor of History at Yale University, analyze...
Speaker: Paul M. Kennedy, Director, International Security Studies and Dilworth Professor of History, Yale University
Presider: Richard N. Haass, President, Council on Foreign Relations
December 14, 2009
This meeting was cosponsored with the National History Center, an initiative of the American Historical Association.
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