history tv. 48 hours of programming american weekend onevery c-span3. follow us on twitter for information on our schedule and to keep up with the latest history news. c-span, where history unfolds daily. in 1979, c-span was created as a public service i america cable television company, and is brought to you today by your cable or satellite rider. weekend on the presidency, historians argue that the reagan administration transformed global politics. they discuss global financial spoil human rights and cyber security against the backdrop of the cold war. so these, as you can tell, are really extraordinary papers. i encourage you to read them all

if you haven't already. they are on multiple research in multiple archives. they are in various languages. -- all bringing out intersecting global issues. it is the way that the united the united states and its allies vis-a-vis's allies during this. . sarah's nights -- sarah siders work is on human rights and policymaking in reaction as much as leaving those discussions, and chris's paper is on matthew and wargames and cyber security, and in the way that technology has already in the 1980's and getting far ahead of policymakers understanding around these issues and the events of the last few months and how they have made that clear to all of us. those of you who have been

unfortunate enough to be students of mine or to be colleagues of mine are tired of hearing me talk about this, but i will do it anyway. these are approaches to ronald reagan. our tenant to you scholars has been to follow this and presume that powerful decision-makers act as moments of gravity, decision points. presidents have memoirs written that way, looking to moments where they can make a difference to transform the battlefield. each of these papers argues that in fact, the reagan administration was unable to do that. each of them argue in tolstoy's fashion that the current of history, the move went of people , is actually something that the most powerful decision-makers cannot control and in fact have to react to more than they lead. tolstoy's criticism is that after the fact, we tell the story that the leaders were in charge that even though we were

running to catch up with the story as it is told. >> watch the entire program on the president the at 8:00 p.m. and midnight eastern on sunday. american history tv, only a these band three. -- only on c-span3. afterwards, the council on foreign relations president richard haas examines challenges to foreign relations policy in his book, "a world in disarray. ." >> the thesis that you've sayarily put forward as you there was considerable continuity and how the world worked during this time. describe that. structures ofe the world such as it was was based on this idea of sovereignty. the idea that borders were definecant, that they

nations, states, countries, and there was a deal out there. we will not try to change your birders perforce -- borders by force if you do not try to change hours. >> sunday night at 10:00 p.m. eastern on afterwards. up next on american history tv's real america, introduction to foreign trade, a 10 minute cornet educational film from 1951. using the sale of american tractors to brazil as an example, it explains consultative process of international congress and trade. ♪ >>