http://www.newamerica.net/events/future All Upcoming Events en http://www.newamerica.net/events/2009/shadow_elite <div class="start-time"><strong> A New America Event<br /> 12/01/2009 - 12:15pm</strong></div> <div class="teaser-content"> Please join New America in a conversation between Janine Wedel and Michael Lind about her new book Shadow Elite. Governments and administrations come and go, but not so a new breed of power brokers, who always seem to pop up just where the action is. Wearing different hats, they press their agendas in venue after venue. According to award-winning public policy scholar and anthropologist Janine Wedel, these are the &quot;shadow elite,&quot; the prime movers in a vexing new system of power and influence. </div><!-- /.teaser-content --> <p><a href="http://www.newamerica.net/events/2009/shadow_elite">read more</a></p> Janine Wedel Michael Lind The Bernard L. Schwartz Fellows Program Economic Growth Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:45:00 -0500 Kirsten Gilbert 20017 at http://www.newamerica.net http://www.newamerica.net/events/2009/inheriting_world <div class="start-time"><strong> A New America Event<br /> 12/02/2009 - 12:15pm</strong></div> <div class="teaser-content"> For nearly half a century, the Cold War dominated U.S. foreign policy. Encompassing some of America's greatest successes and failures, its legacy has shaped U.S. debates over the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and relations with Russia, China and Iran. What are the right and wrong lessons to take from America's long &quot;twilight struggle&quot;? And how has the reality of the Cold War been distorted in public memory in the years since? </div><!-- /.teaser-content --> <p><a href="http://www.newamerica.net/events/2009/inheriting_world">read more</a></p> Nicholas Thompson Peter Beinart The Bernard L. Schwartz Fellows Program Foreign Policy Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:45:00 -0500 Stephanie Gunter 20000 at http://www.newamerica.net