on ‘The Road from Algiers to Baghdad’
Henry A. Kissinger, former U.S. Secretary of State and winner of the 1973
Nobel Peace Prize, will participate in a symposium exploring “The Road
from Algiers to Baghdad” on Thursday, Dec. 6.
The event, which is free and open to the Yale community, will take place at 7:45
p.m. in Levinson Auditorium of the Yale Law School, 127 Wall St. Members of the
media are welcome to attend.
The symposium will examine the conflict between France and Algeria, 1954-1961,
and explore how the lessons learned by France during occupation and insurgency
relate to the current American experience in Iraq.
The primary speakers for the event are historian Sir Alistair Horne and journalist
Thomas E. Ricks.
Horne is the author of some 20 books, including “A Savage War of Peace,” a
recently re-issued history of the Algerian War that won the Wolfson Literary
Award and other prizes when it was first published in 1977. Also a foreign correspondent
and the official biographer of Harold Macmillan, Horne was awarded the French
Legion d’Honneur in 1993 and was knighted in 2003 for his work in French
history. In 1969, he founded the Alistair Horne Research Fellowship in Modern
History at St. Antony’s College, Oxford University, which is designed to
bring young historians and biographers to that campus.
Ricks, a Yale alumnus, was a military correspondent for the Wall Street Journal
for 17 years before joining the Washington Post in 1999. He was a member of Pulitzer
Prize-winning teams on both newspapers. He has reported from many of the world’s
sites of conflict, including Somalia, Korea, Kosovo, Kuwait, Turkey, Afghanistan
and Iraq. Ricks is the author of the New York Times bestseller “Fiasco:
The American Military Adventure in Iraq.” His book “Making the Corps” won
the Washington Monthly’s “Political Book of the Year” award.
Kissinger was the 56th secretary of state from 1973 to 1977, and he was assistant
to the president for national security affairs 1969 to 1975. After leaving government
service, he founded Kissinger Associates, an international consulting firm, of
which he is the chair. A native of Germany, he became a naturalized U.S. citizen
in 1943. He earned his bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees
from Harvard University, and from 1954 to 1969 was a member of the faculty there.
He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom — America’s highest
civilian award — in 1977. He is the author of 15 books, including “White
House Years,” “Does America Need a Foreign Policy: Toward a Diplomacy
for the 21st Century” and “Crisis: The Anatomy of Two Major Foreign
Policy Crises.”
This event is the seventh in a series of symposia organized by Stanley Flink,
a lecturer in the Department of Political Science, as an extension of his seminar “Ethics
and the Media.” Previous participants have included Howard Dean, Bill Donaldson,
Sir John Major and Senator John Danforth, among others.
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