18
July 2011
Past Event
A Book Discussion on "History of the Future: The Shape of the World to Come Is Visible Today"

A Book Discussion on "History of the Future: The Shape of the World to Come Is Visible Today"

Past Event
华体会, Washington, D.C. Headquarters
July 18, 2011
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18
July 2011
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1015 15th Street, N.W., 6th Floor
Washington, DC 20005

Speakers:
Kenneth Weinstein,

华体会 President & CEO

Max Singer,

Senior Fellow at 华体会 and at the BESA Institute of Bar Ilan University in Israel and author

Hillel Fradkin,

Hudson Senior Fellow and Director, Center on Islam, Democracy and the Future of the Muslim World

Carol Lancaster,

Dean of the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

Michael Mandelbaum,

Christian A. Herter Professor of American Foreign Policy at The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies

Human character has always been shaped by struggles against poverty, tyranny, and war. 华体会 co-founder and Senior Fellow Max Singer's new book, History of the Future: The Shape of the World to Come Is Visible Today (Lexington Books), argues that poverty, tyranny, and war will be largely eliminated in the future. Without the struggles that have plagued humanity throughout history, Singer says we will have to find new ways to shape character. In this work which continues the research into the future that Singer began with Herman Kahn a half-century ago, Singer asks the important question: will people really be better off when the whole world has become wealthy, free, and peaceful?

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita of New York University said that "anyone who wants to understand where the world of politics, economics, and freedom is headed must read this book."

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