patrick's day everyone. >> edward lucas is here to discuss his book "the new cold war." this event is from 2008. it is about 90 minutes. >> he has been covering the region for more than 20 years and witnessing the final years of the cold war fall and the collapse of the soviet empire. the downfall of borris and vladimer putin's rise to power. he was the managing editor for a "discover magazine," and a correspondent for a london station and worked for a bbc as a journalist. he has a bs from the london school of economics. mr. lucas is the author of a new book entitled "the new cold war" which he is going to talk about this afternoon. >> thank you very much for that gracious introduction for and thank you raidio liberty for letting me talk here. i have very fond memories of this station from when i lived in the czech republic. so it is great privilege to be here. i want to start off by making it clear that perhaps something particularly important about the last cold war. i am not saying in my book that the old car war is coming back. it was a global conflict, sharp ideaolo

in the next hour you will see a journalist edward lucas, author of the new cold war, politics professor, columnist and government and foreign service professor. >> and it is certainly true that russia is not at every stage. we talk seriously with the russians about north korea and we sometimes talk about a run and the middle east. it is true. russia is engaged. but there are two reasons. i don't need to remind him how disgusting some of this stuff is. you can find it on the russian media. if you have not done it, i implore you, look at some of those propaganda videos. the images, the idea of the siege fortress. it is poisonous. it is poisoning russian public opinion. every opinion poll shows the same veteran towards anti westernism to be where i am feeling optimistic, the whole thing, all this stuff is just played up in order to fool the russian people. in fact, all that want to do is to steal billions and billions and billions of dollars. i am not that optimistic. that is what is really scary. it is changing russian public opinion. it is not confined to russia. it leads to central euro

first, edward lucas and his book, the new cold war. then implosion, the end of russia and what it means for america, and later, afterwards, with angela stent on the limits of partnership. >> for st. patrick's day we turn to the video library at c-span.org to see how u.s. presidents marked the holiday. >> despite all this, tip wanted me here. he said that since it was march 17th it was only fitting that someone drop by who actually had known st. patrick. and that's true, tip. i did know st. patrick. in fact, we both changed to the same political party at about the same time. >> once you have had a glass of guinness with a man in ireland, as i have with brian lenahan, you're friends. ♪ [applause] >> today, more than 35 million americans claim irish ancestry. america's richer for every murphy, kelly and o'sullivan. i should have said mccain. [applause] >> well, i just did. >> well, happy st. patrick's day to everybody. tens of millions of americans trace their roots back to the emerald isles, and on st. patrick's day many millions more cl

edward lucas talks about his book "the new cold war". berman on his book "implosion". words," u.s. are -russia relations in the 21st century. tomorrow night on c-span 2. >> we are focused on making sure we can eliminate the barriers to getting those networks in place. building out these networks is our priority. localmes, there are citing issues. sometimes, there are rules that affect how we might deploy things, the impact on historic sites or the environment. we want to make sure we are sensitive to those issues. at the same time, we want to move forward on deployment. our customers, those who use these devices everyday, depend on having a good, strong connection to get the data they want when they want it. that means having a really robust wireless network. >> the wireless infrastructure, monday on "the communicators" on c-span 2. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> this week on q&a, cass sunstein discusses his latest book. it is entitled "why nudge? the politics of libertarian paternalism." >> tell us when you decided what to do in your life and when. >> i

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at 8:30 eastern, british journalist edward lucas talks about his book, "the new cold war." that's followed at 10:05 with political scientist ilan berman who predicts the collapse of russia in "implosion." then at 1 1u 05, we conclude with "after words" and guest host dimitri simes who interviews angela tent on her book, "the limits of partnership." book booktv in prime time all this week on c-span2. >> next, a discussion about transportation policy. officials with the federal railroad and federal transit administrations discuss the president's 2015 budget request as well as other issues including railroad safety. the discussion was part of a recent daylong legislative conference of the american public transportation association held in washington d.c. it runs a little over an hour. >> welcome to the last session of the day. my name is diana mendez, and i'm the vice chair of the legislative committee. i know you've all had an uplifting and invigorating day, and we're going to continue that with our session this afternoonh we are really delighted to host for you a discussion