this is not like walesa and havel in poland and czechoslovakia. we don't know what is coming. >> that is what is dangerous about this. in tunisia, the islamists are quite weak. it could happen that islamist takeover, but it is unlikely. the problem with egypt is the muslim of the road, in part because of the oppression of mubarak, is the most disciplined, strong opposition. now, it is late in the game, but you can be late in the game, light l -- like lenin in the russian revolution, and still win the game. if all but i -- it all, all or die, if he ends up in power, -- if mohamed elbaradei it ends up in power, that is ok. but if the muslim brotherhood takes over, as happened in gaza -- >> i think the mubarak's could this move is too slow. -- mubarak's quicketst move is too slow. he has lost the opportunity to gain ground. disparate groups have coalesced, and they realize they can push the government. the prime minister is showing some concessions -- why is he doing that? because of the pressure. >> the shah of iran -- >> it does -- >> went these th

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your havel -- able to have a change of power. empowering the people means of focus on their priorities, that their priorities are the priorities of the people. social security, what have you. obviously if [unintelligible] i am now technology savvy person. i set that the major part of a program is democracy. it the policy and everything else will come to you. >> we go to the first one here. this is an assistant professor at the kennedy school. in you did a great job. i'm assistant professor at the kennedy school. i teach middle east politics among other things. thank you for coming to harvard to date. in many of your public talks, you have to emphasize that you are not really interested in being the president of egypt. you are interested in being an agent of change. i heard you speaking to the egyptian american community and emphasizing that egypt needs to go through a long process of change in order to become democratic citizens. that to me may be correct but it is not the kind of thing you'd think politicians say. they generally

but i met havel in the czech republic. i met lech walesa and sukova in poland. and in asia, i met with the japanese prime minister and the south korean head of state, and all the chinese communist leaders -- jiang zemin and li peng. c-span: who of all those people impressed you the most -- personally, not their political beliefs? guest: boris yeltsin, simply because i'm fascinated by russian politics and russian history, and he's just such a formidable presence. even walking into the room, he's just quite a force in his own right. and i admired him very much for having such a tremendous influence in bringing the end of communism to his state. c-span: when does your second book come out? guest: next fall. it will be published by random house. i haven't titled it yet, but it will deal with nixon's foreign policy views and it will deal with nixon's views on scandal more extensively: whitewater, watergate, the clarence thomas hearings, the kennedys. it will deal with the legacy of vietnam and what nixon saw the legacy of vietnam as for the united states, and the des

in getting to this point today, ave th havelled a long way to decades of civil war, the peace agreementn 2005, and the subsequent six-year long process of making the deal work. we're glad they can join us, and we look forward to, perhaps, hearing them speak as well this morning. but today we're going to reflect a little bit about, upon how sudan has arrived at this moment, but mainly we're going to look forward and think about the upcoming challenges as well. because while those who have worked on the referendum, of course, deserve a great deal of credit for the fact it's taking place on time and so far at least in a relatively orderly fashion, the referendum isn't the end of the road. as was said yesterday as his vote was cast, it's premature to say job done. in many ways the real challenges lie ahead. particularly in the six month-long period following the referendum. if the vote comes out in favor of secession, this will be the time when the tough negotiations really begin in earnest on all the issues which will help determine relations between north and south for years to come. and,

. >> for at least a month we havel heard chavez talk about a treatt with iran which will put iran'snn venezuela but i have heard any mention of the monroe doctrine. would you comment? >> thank you for mentioning the monroe doctrine. that is john -- john quincy adams would be proud. that is a violation of the monroe doctrine. hugo chavez and venezuelans should not be allowed to make treaties with powers outside of our hemisphere to build weapons aimed at the united states. it is a sign of our moral bankruptcy but no one eats for and raisins the notion of the monroe doctrine that no one would seriously say that is not going to happen. say it publicly, say to the american people. much of our diplomacy is done in private after wikileaks i'm not sure how much of it. but it is worth telling the american people things with candor. on the economy if we are bankrupt tell them that. we can afford certain things tell them that. if we have enemies tell them that. guess the monroe doctrine. don't let people in our hemisphere that seems to be an outrage. the question about the left, i expect no on