Session 1: What Are the Lessons of History for Our Era?

Margaret MacMillan discusses prominent events in history that can help increase our understanding of current events and guide policymaking.

This meeting will launch CFR’s new speaker series, The 21st Century World: Big Challenges & Big Ideas, which will feature some of today’s leading thinkers and tackle issues ​that will define this century. The series commemorates CFR’s centennial and will be released as a podcast later this year.

Speaker
Margaret MacMillan
Professor of History, University of Toronto; Emeritus Professor of International History, University of Oxford; Author, War: How Conflict Shaped Us

Presider
Richard N. Haass
President, Council on Foreign Relations; Author, The World: A Brief Introduction; @RichardHaass


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