International Womens Day Second Annual

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International Womens Day Second
Annual International Womens Day Celebration A
forum on womens land rights and global poverty
alleviation Thursday, March 20, 2008 1200
130 Benaroya Hall 200 University Street
VIP Reception 1115 AM Registration opens
1130 AM Program begins 1200 PM Tickets
75 Educational Panel on Gender and Land
1000-1115 AM (The panel is free to those who
attend the luncheon. Additional tickets are 10
or 5 for students) 15 places for students
available, which are paid for totally , including
luncheon. If interested, contact Gail Romero
GailR_at_rdiland.org
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After-Class Session Today

• Smith 305

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Lecture 17

• 2/15/2008
• From One World to Another The End of the
  Post-War World Order

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Afghanistan The Last Hurrah

• 1978 The Glorious Revolution
• 1979 Coup Topples the Glorious Revolution
• 1979 Soviet Invasion Restores Friendly Afghan
  Government
• Mujahideen, supported by covert U.S. aid, fight
  an insurgent war against the government and
  Soviets
• 1989 Soviets withdraw
• 1989-1994 Chaotic civil war for control of the
  country
• 1994 Taliban emerges as the victor

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Afghanistan
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1984 (age 12) and 2002 (age 30)
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Andrei Sakharov
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Anatoly Natan Sharansky
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Mikhail Gorbachev
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Last Gasp Reforms

• Glasnost
• Perestroika

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Lech Walesa
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The Soviet Collapse Changes the World
In a mere three and one-half years, virtually
every defining feature of the postwar
landscapeand, thus, of the postwar
international orderhad been dramatically and
irretrievably altered.
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The Changes

• East Europe is set adrift

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Fall of Berlin Wall
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Romanias President Nicolae Ceausescu

• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vYEZHZHNByCs

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The Changes

• East Europe is set adrift
• Germany is reunited
• The EU expands and deepens

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EU Expands
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The Changes

• East Europe is set adrift
• Germany is reunited
• The EU expands and deepens
• The U.S. becomes the sole superpower
• The 3rd World is marginalized bewildered

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Rwanda Civil War
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Sierra Leone Civil War