WINTER 2017
VOL. 37, NO. 3
www.augie.edu/cws
THE CENTER FOR WESTERN STUDIES | AUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY | FANTLE BUILDING
Improving the quality of social and cultural life in the
Northern Plains . . . achieving a better understanding of the
reg ion, its heritage, and its resources . . . and stimulating
interest in the solution to regional problems.
(CWS Constitution)
Secretary of State Condoleezza R ice Speaks March 20
“America’s National Security and the World” is Boe Forum Topic
SDPB, MPR, and Now C-SPAN—
CWS Expands I ts Media Outreach
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Where were you on September 11, 2001? Most adult Americans remember the
attacks that morning on the World Trade Center, on the Pentagon, and the crash of
Flight 93 in a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, brought down by courageous
passengers and crew. The actions by nineteen terrorists from Saudi Arabia, the
United Arab Emirates, Egypt, and Lebanon killed 2,605 Americans and 372 others
from foreign countries, chiefly from Great Britain, the Dominican Republic, and India.
The National Security Advisor to President George W. Bush at that time was
Condoleezza Rice, who later became the 66th Secretary of State.
Dr. Rice is currently the Denning Professor in Global Business and the Economy at
the Stanford Graduate School of Business, the Thomas and Barbara Stephenson
Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution (Stanford), and Professor of
Political Science at Stanford University. Additional biographical information about
Condoleezza Rice is available at www.augie.edu/CWS. The forum is scheduled for
Tuesday, March 20, 2018, in the Elmen Center, beginning at 7:30 p.m. Information
about obtaining the free tickets and priority seating for CWS members will be
available soon.
During the George H.W. Bush administration, Dr. Rice served as special assistant to
the president for Soviet affairs. In her latest book, Democracy (2017), which contains
an entire chapter devoted to Russia, Rice writes, “Vladimir Putin has returned Russia
to its authoritarian roots. . . . Not content with snuffing out hopes for democracy in
Russia, Putin has worked to undermine democratic governments around the world.” For the 22nd CWS Boe Forum, the
CWS Boe Committee discussed the troubling developments regarding threats to America’s national security, including
from Russia, as well as from North Korea and the Middle East. A prerequisite of the Continued on page 9
For its coverage of South Dakota in its “Cities Tour” series, C-SPAN, in part-nership
with Midco, chose Pierre and Sioux Falls. The public affairs com-pany
filmed at CWS on September 8 and 11 for its History TV and Book TV
channels.
Authors of two CWS books were chosen to be interviewed: Dr. Robert
Wright, author of Little Business on the Prairie and Nef Family Chair in Polit-ical
Economy at Augustana, and Wayne Fanebust, author of Outlaw Dakota
and many other history books. The CWS executive director was invited to
narrate a filmed tour of the Voices of the Northern Plains exhibit.
Other focal points were an interview with CWS Council member Dr. Jon