You are cordially invited to attend an IN-PERSON public event:
Churchill, Bolshevism, and Containment
Speakers
Dr. Christopher C. Harmon & Dr. Klaus Larres
Professor at IWP & Professor at UNC
Date/Time
Friday, November 22, 2024
4:00 – 6:00 PM EST
Location
The Institute of World Politics
1521 16th St NW
Washington, DC 20036Commodore Barry Room – Marlatt MansionGetting to campus
About the Lecture:
How should democratic statesmen manage an evil ideology?
Ministers of the United Kingdom during World War One had to face that question as Bolshevism overtook Russia. One of those working for responsible decisions was Winston S. Churchill, already with long governmental service and military experience on several continents. His advice was not always accepted. Yet Churchill’s authorities then increased; he was Prime Minister and Minister of Defense during World War Two and his views were a central factor in allied thinking and world opinion. And after 1945 his stature, and a second prime ministry, kept the problem of communism a vital one for him.
About the Speakers:
Dr. Christopher C. Harmon was Legislative Aide for Foreign Policy to a member of Congress and later served as Director of Counterterrorism Studies Programs in Asia and Europe for the U.S. Government. He has directed courses at both military and civilian graduate schools including the Naval War College, Marine Corps University, and currently serves as a full-time professor at The Institute of World Politics, where he began teaching courses on terrorism and counterterrorism after 9/11. At the Marine Corps University, Dr. Harmon led two Command & Staff College (CSC) core courses, “Theory and Nature of War” and “Strategy,” and he introduced new electives on “Terrorism and Counterterrorism,” and “Winston Churchill as a War Leader.” Dr. Harmon has been lead author and editor of eight books including, Statecraft and Power, Terrorism Today, Toward a Grand Strategy Against Terrorism, and more. At the Marine Corps University in Quantico Virginia, he formerly held the Bren Chair of Great Power Competition and now serves as Distinguished Fellow at the Brute Krulak Center for Innovation and Future Warfare.
Professor Klaus W. Larres, Ph.D., is the Richard M. Krasno Distinguished Professor of History and International Affairs at the University of North Carolina (UNC) in Chapel Hill, NC. At UNC he also directs the Krasno Global Affairs & Business Council/Krasno Global Events Series, a public events series with prominent speakers. Previously he held the Henry Kissinger Chair in Foreign Policy & International Relations at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC, was selected as a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton, NJ, and was a Visiting Fellow at Germany’s leading think tank the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) in Berlin. He also worked as a Counselor and Senior Policy Adviser at the German Embassy in Beijing, China, and was a Visiting Scholar at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies of Harvard University. During the academic year 2023-24 he served as a Global Europe & Kissinger China Institute Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, DC. He is now a Global Fellow at the Wilson Center. Dr. Klaus Larres has also authored a number of publications, with one of his most notable being his monograph, Churchill’s Cold War: The Politics of Personal Diplomacy. His latest book which came out with Yale UP in 2022 is “Uncertain Allies: Nixon, Kissinger, and the Threat of a United Europe.” He now works on a book on the “China Factor in Transatlantic Relations from the 1980s to the present.”
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