Boston University professor of history and international relations Dr. Andrew J. Bacevich recently spoke at the Mid-Coast Forum on Foreign Relations in Camden. He discusses his theory that the world needs America to ensure the ultimate triumph of liberty on Speaking in Maine.
Andrew J. Bacevich is professor of history and international relations at Boston University. A graduate of the U. S. Military Academy, he received his Ph. D. in American diplomatic history from Princeton.
In 2004, Bacevich was a Berlin Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. He has also been a fellow of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.
Bacevich is the author of The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War; and The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism among other books, and his op-eds have appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, and USA Today.
This talk was recorded on July 29, 2010 in Camden by the Mid-Coast Forum on Foreign Relations.