{"id":12754,"date":"2014-10-19T15:16:09","date_gmt":"2014-10-19T20:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/?p=12754"},"modified":"2021-02-04T10:21:03","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T15:21:03","slug":"bacevich-pardee-lecture-permanent-war-greater-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2014\/10\/19\/bacevich-pardee-lecture-permanent-war-greater-middle-east\/","title":{"rendered":"Join us for the 2nd Pardee School Inaugural Year Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Poster-Bacevich-Pardee-web\"<\/a>Professor Emeritus\u00a0Andrew J. Bacevich<\/a>\u00a0of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies will present the next installment of the Pardee School Inaugural Year Lecture Series. Register now to reserve a seat at Prof. Bacevich’s\u00a0lecture and discussion on\u00a0“Is there an alternative to Permanent War in the Greater Middle East?”<\/em><\/p>\n

The event will be held in the\u00a0Trustees Ballroom at 1 Silber Way, Boston Univeristy at 4 PM on Tuesday, November 4, 2014<\/em>.\u00a0A receptiion will follow the lecture and discussion.<\/p>\n

Seating is limited and RSVP is required:\u00a0<\/strong>The event is open to the public but requires prior reservation.\u00a0To register for this event, please email\u00a0EventsPS@bu.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The lecture and discussion will be based on research that Prof. Bacevich is conducting for a book on the same topic. He is currently leading the\u00a0Pardee School’s first MOOC<\/a>\u00a0(massive open online course), also on the same topic, which has attracted over 10,750 students from more than 150 countries.\u00a0The event is also a celebration of Prof. Bacevich’s career at Boston Univeristy, where he became Professor Emeritus in International Relations and in History, earlier this year upon retirement.<\/p>\n

The Inaugural Year Lecture Series at the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies are planned around themes and issues central to the mission and focus of Boston University\u2019s newest School.\u00a0The first lecture in the series was presented in October by\u00a0Dr.\u00a0Vaira Vike-Freiberga<\/a>, the former President of Latvia (1999-2007), on\u00a0‘What does the future hold for Europe and the EU?’<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>Other lectures will follow through the 2014-15 academic year.<\/p>\n

Prof. Andrew J. Bacevich<\/a>\u00a0is a major public intellectual who has been applauded for reaching across political lines and speaking blunt truth to power, regardless of who is in office.\u00a0Prior to joining Boston University he taught at Johns Hopkins University and at West Point, where he graduated in 1969.\u00a0Time<\/em>\u00a0calls him “one of the most provocative\u2014as in\u00a0thought-provoking\u2014national-security writers out there today.” His new book,\u00a0Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country<\/em>, is a blistering critique of the gulf between America\u2019s soldiers and the society that sends them off to war.\u00a0Bacevich’s bestseller,\u00a0Washington Rules<\/em>, is a critique of the country’s military industrial complex.<\/p>\n

Andrew Bacevich \u00a0holds a Ph.D. in American Diplomatic History from Princeton. With the US Army, he served during the Vietnam War, and has held posts in Germany and the Persian Gulf; he retired, as a Colonel, in the early 1990s. Bacevich’s books include\u00a0The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War<\/em>, and\u00a0American Empire: The Realities and Consequences of U. S. Diplomacy<\/em>. Bacevich has also written for\u00a0The Atlantic, Foreign Affairs<\/em>, and\u00a0The New York Times<\/em>, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.<\/p>\n

Seating is limited and RSVP is required:\u00a0<\/strong>The event is open to the public but requires prior reservation.\u00a0To register for this event, please email\u00a0EventsPS@bu.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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