6:00-7:00pm, Wednesday 10th March 2010, Committee Room 15, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA
To attend, please RSVP to helen.norbury@henryjacksonsociety.org
Much is made by commentators and analysts of the many differences between Europe and the United States. In spite of the transatlantic relationship that held for so many years during the Cold War, Americans and Europeans have come to regard each other with a degree of mutual suspicion. This diversity of opinion, exacerbated in recent years by the actions and events of the Bush administration and the European approach to these crises, covers many areas from specific issues such as the NATO mission in Afghanistan to much broader concerns including politics, economics, culture and the environment. However, to what extent are these divergences between America and Europe genuine, and to what extent can this kind of stereotyped view obscure important realities in the US-Europe relationship? Armed with an array of hard data, Professor Peter Baldwin offers a fascinating comparison of the United States and Europe, looking at the latest statistics on the economy, crime, health care, education and culture, religion, the environment, and much more. Professor Baldwin’s findings are both informative and surprising.
By kind invitation of Frank Cook MP, the Henry Jackson Society is pleased to be able to invite you to a discussion with Professor Peter Baldwin, Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles. Professor Baldwin is an expert in US and European history, and author of The Narcissism of Minor Differences: How America and Europe are Alike, a detailed comparative look at the United States and Europe in the twenty-first century. Following his remarks, Professor Baldwin will take part in a general audience discussion.
TIME: 6:00-7:00pm
DATE: Wednesday 10th, March 2010
VENUE: Committee Room 15, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA
To attend, please RSVP to helen.norbury@henryjacksonsociety.org
Peter Baldwin is a professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. He was educated at Yale and Harvard and has written several books on Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries: The Politics of Social Solidarity: Class Bases of the European Welfare State, 1875-1975; Contagion and the State in Europe, 1830-1930; Disease and Democracy: The Industrialized World Faces AIDS. In 2000, he received the Investigator Award in Health Policy Research for his work The Influence of History and Tradition on Public Health Strategies: A Nationally Comparative Approach to the AIDS Epidemic, which explored the variation of international responses to the AIDS epidemic. His latest work is a study of the state of transatlantic relations between the US and Europe, entitled The Narcissism of Minor Differences: How America and Europe are Alike. Peter Baldwin and Lisbet Rausing form the Donor board of the Arcadia Fund, founded in 2001. As of 2008, the Fund had made grant commitments of over $181 million to preserve endangered treasures.