About This Issue
- Volume 23 Number 1, Fall 2008
- The Fall 2008 issue of the Centerpiece features the field research work of six Weatherhead Center Undergraduate Student Associates. Daniel Sargent provides an overview of the "Global 1970s" conference, which took place this past October. We also provide a full transcript of the address by the President of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso, at the 2008 Spaak Lecture.
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Main Cover Image: On October 16, 2008, Fellows Alexis Rwabizambuga, Justin Chinyanta, and Adamu Musa presented their thoughts on "Africa's Future: Political and Economic Challenges" at this academic year's first WCFIA Fellows' Roundtable on World Affairs. Photo credit: Jason Ri.
Features
- Global 1970s
- A heyday for bad hair, bell-bottoms, and pet rocks, the 1970s are a decade often reduced to pastiche, commemorated in disco's greatest hits and “That Seventies Show.” But the seventies, for all their endearing quirks, are fondly remembered by few. For North Americans and West Europeans, the decade was an “age of limits” that marked the end of the postwar economic miracle and the coming-to-terms with stagflation and recession. Infamous for Watergate, gas lines, and Jimmy Carter's cardigans, the seventies, for many who lived through them, were years best forgotten.
- Yet the decade of the 1970s was also a time of upheaval and transformation for the world…
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- A Letter from Brussels to the Next President of the United States of America
- European Commission President José Manuel Barroso inaugurated the Weatherhead Center's new era of Paul-Henri Spaak Lectures with his September 24, 2008, “Letter from Brussels to the Next President of the United States.” His address is excerpted here…
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