The Visiting Scholar in Conservative Thought and Policy presents:
The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues, and the Coming Dark Age
Wednesday, 11/15/2017
5:15 PM-7:15PM
Eaton Humanities 150
University of Colorado Boulder
Directly followed by a book signing with the author and speaker, James Kirchick, with books available for purchase from the CU Bookstore.
Once the world’s bastion of liberal, democratic values, Europe is now having to confront demons it thought it had laid to rest. The old pathologies of anti-Semitism, populist nationalism, and territorial aggression are threatening to tear the European postwar consensus apart. In riveting dispatches from this unfolding tragedy, James Kirchick shows us the shallow disingenuousness of the leaders who pushed for “Brexit;” examines how a vast migrant wave is exacerbating tensions between Europeans and their Muslim minorities; explores the rising anti-Semitism that causes Jewish schools and synagogues in France and Germany to resemble armed bunkers; and describes how Russian imperial ambitions are destabilizing nations from Estonia to Ukraine. With President Trump now threatening to abandon America's traditional role as upholder of the liberal world order and guarantor of the continent's security, Europe may be alone in dealing with these unprecedented challenges.
In order to ensure we have enough seating for this event, it is strongly recommended that you register in advance.
Featuring:
James Kirchick, Journalist, Visiting Fellow in the Center on the United States and Europe and Project on International Order and Strategy at the Brookings Institution. Author of The End of Europe:
Sponsored by:
The Center for Western Civilization, Thought & Policy
Directions and Maps:
Location: https://www.colorado.edu/map/?id=336&mrkIid=193885
Campus Parking Map: http://www.colorado.edu/pts/short-term-parking/visitor-parking-map
(Parking lots 380 and 243 will be closest in proximity to the event)
For more information: http://www.colorado.edu/cwctp/