Cyril Black International Book Forum
The Cyril Black International Book Forum is held in honor of the late Cyril Black, the emeritus James S. McDonnell Distinguished Professor of History and International Affairs at Princeton University. Black was director of the Princeton’s Center of International Studies from 1968 to 1985 and a member of the University faculty for 50 years.
2011–12
The Struggle for Egypt: From Nasser to Tahrir Square
Steven A. Cook
Hasib J. Sabbagh Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
4:30 p.m.
219 Aaron Burr Hall
Discussants:
Bernard Haykel, Near Eastern Studies
Amaney Jamal, Politics
Daniel Kurtzer, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
Reception and book signing to follow. Books may be purchased on site and are also available at Labyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street, Princeton NJ 08542.
Read the New York Times book review.
Watch the Council on Foreign Research documentary "Egypt's Democratic Quest: From Nasser to Tahrir Square" on YouTube.
Past Cyril Black Events
Cyril Black International Book Forum:
2011: Barry Eichengreen, “Exorbitant Privilege: The Decline of the Dollar and the Future of the International Monetary System
2010: Seth Jones, “In the Graveyard of Empires”
2009: Philip Bobbitt, “Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-First Century”
2008: John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy”
Cyril Black Memorial Lecture:
2006: Adam Michnik, “A Dictator’s Past: The Cleansing of Collective Memory”
2005: Valerie Bunce, “The United States and Democracy Promotion: Learning from Postcommunist Eurasia
2004: None -- Andrei Illarionov, invited but cancelled
2003: Thomas Carothers, “Democracy by Force: Iraq and the Future of Sovereignty”
2002: Strobe Talbott, “Russia and the West under Yeltsin and Putin”
2001: Susan Woodward, “Surviving Milosevic: The Construction of ‘Normal States’ in the Balkans”
2000: Zbigniew Brzezinski, “The Transformation of Russia”
1999: Richard Holbrooke, “Peacemaking in the Balkans”
1998: David Remnick ’81, “Ten Years Reporting from Russia: New Worlds, Old Worlds”
1997: Jack Matlock, “Russia, Where to Next?”
