or ask about details on the deals now struck by ukraine and russia from oxford university historian mark colvin joining us on the line ottomar this a major concession say that ukraine's got from russia to sort of things that may know that any future deals with the e.u. are currently off the table for good. not at all it seems to me that actually the european union strategist must be rather happy with this deal russia has agreed to pay off essential of the western banks who have lent money rather. probably unwisely to ukraine without really thinking through its ability to pay and russia is going to subsidize in effect the provision of gas to people in ukraine which is a good thing for ordinary people in the business but it doesn't actually buy and if you do create income politically not if there's a change of government after all these deals go through after the cash is transferred and still there is a revolution or some kind of change of regime doesn't void the possibility that then careful could still either tilt will be pulled to wards brussels towards the u.n. or nato but still the wo

for a revolution to overthrow the current government but professor mark almond a historian at oxford university says the passionate speech is how didn't kiev's independence square don't resonate well with all ukrainians. i think we should because of attributing what's going on to the majority of people i suspect to the tragedy of the greatest the great majority of people around the passive uncertain of all the dissolution about politics and equation the risk now is that we have a politics of two minorities maybe the group on the streets group with kind of paramilitary nationalistic or the west not just western playing but also from some of your community countries they feel able to strip states of kind of who we're seeing very one time of same time and this could change go but it could lead to a very violent situation and it could even question whether ukraine is father was a state. some senior politicians have blamed russia who was led to the situation and cleared saying it was kremlin interference that sunk the deal with the but international relations professor marcus in a boat says it's tho

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for a revolution to overthrow the current government but professor mark almond historian at oxford university says the passionate speeches heard in kiev's independence square don't resonate well with all ukrainians i think we should because of attributing what's going on to the majority of people i suspect that the tragedy of the greatest great majority of people around the passive and certainly around the dissolution about politics when both equation the risk now is that we have a politics and to minorities it may be that the group on the streets with kind of paramilitary nationalist support from the west not just western plane but also from some of your community countries they feel they've got the strobe stage kind of who were seen one time a same time and this could change go but it could lead to a very violent situation and it could be a question of whether ukraine is five or six states. the revolution machinery is cranking into gear however was a huge problem in terry and senior polish political figures traveling to kiev to address the protesters and pledge their support to the oppositi

calling for a revolution to overthrow the current government professor mark almond a historian at oxford university he says the passionate speech is heard in kiev's independence square don't resonate well with all ukrainians i think we should because of attributing what's going on to the majority of people and i suspect that the tragedy of the greatest great majority of people rather passive and certainly around the dissolution about politics when both equation the risk now is that we have a politics of two minorities and it may be that the group on the streets with kind of paramilitary nationalist support from the west not just western plane but also from some of the work or new countries. the strobes kind of who were seen during one time of same time and this could change go but it could lead to a very violent situation and it could be a question of the ukraine is far from the state and some senior politicians have blamed russia for what's led to the situation in kiev saying it was kremlin interference that sunk the deal with the e.u. but international relations professor marks the border he says

related to political life and had a healthy core but professor mark oldman who's a historian from oxford university thinks that's not enough to change the perception of color koskie in the west. but fortunately the western human rights groups seem to have rather constructs themselves. the interest of only dogs for the rights of all the gods whether it's rush or commission can ukraine and so on here what about imprisoned rich people but not about for instance the corporate. or intimidated article skiis living in the west now and has no serious discussion about what happened to the billions of dollars worth of assets which will laundered out to russia in the ninety's and into western banks into western real estate and so on and one. he gave at his press conference in berlin yesterday on returning to russia was the implication possible suits for coverage of the assets that still are effectively his hands in the hands of his cronies in the us. of a more in court across his first public comments after his release and to get opinion and analysis on his case and surprise pardon head to our web site r.t. d

to demand the impeachment of the president the professor mark a woman there's a historian at oxford university he told me earlier that it is a battle of minorities. i think we should be careful of attributing what's going on to the majority of people i suspect that the tragedy of the greatest great majority of people rather passive and certainly rather dissolution about politics and on both sides equation the risk now is that we have a politics of two minorities and it may be that the group on the streets with kind of paramilitary nationalist support from the west not just western men but also from some of your community countries they feel they've got the strobes stage a kind of coup sort of that was seen going on in time of same time and this could change go but it could lead to a very violent situation and it could even question look at the ukraine is five or six state and just finally brussels evil's very surprised when they made this utena decided not to join up with this agreement is it worried about losing face saying this it was there more to it just funning. i think brussels the west

new revolution to overthrow the current government but professor mark armand a historian at oxford university says the passionate rhetoric heard in kids independence square doesn't resonate well always with all ukrainians we should be careful of attributing what's going on to the majority of people i suspect that the tragedy of the greatest great majority of people rather passive and certainly rather dissolution about politics with both son equation the risk now is that we have a politics of two minorities and it may be that the group on the streets with kind of paramilitary nationalist support from the west not just western men but also from some of the european union countries they feel they've got the strobes stage of kind of who the source was in the one time or the same time and this could change go but it could lead to a very violent situation and it could be a question of whether ukraine is viable state. ukraine side it needed time to sort out its ever growing foreign debt and work out how to fund a modernization program kiev said this would have helped save jobs before it entered into

related to political life and had a healthy core professor mark almond who's a historian from oxford university i spoke to him earlier he thinks that's not enough to change the perception of color in the west. but fortunately the western human rights groups seem to have rather constructs themselves. interest of all legal civil rights all the gods whether it's russia new crime and so on here or in prison. for instance the corporate. or intimidated. he is living in the west now and has no serious discussion about what happened to billions of dollars worth of assets which would want it out. into western parents and western real estate. he gave at his press conference in berlin yesterday returning to russia was the implication possible suits for coverage of the assets that still are effectively his hands in the arms of his cronies in the us. well for more of his first public comments after his release and to get opinion and analysis on his case and surprise party at a web site r.t. dot com. we called kalashnikov the designer of the world's most used assault rifle the a k forty seven has died aged n

and mark armond is an oxford university historian and joins me now live to talk more about. mr armand welcome to our t.v. always good to talk to you. russia recently claimed some foreign policy big trees with these as well as iran's nuclear talks as much it appears in probably seeking to cement these even more by letting it go or do you think what us is really silly. well it may well be a way of putting a dampener on the and to russian campaign which goes on in the west media and so over human rights that if you let out a very wealthy only go if you release the riot greenpeace. as well as quite a large number. of criminals this will defuse some of the ongoing campaign and people who. symbols all. over the west and rights groups and it's very striking when this holocaust he's campaigning on very quiet in the last six months he's had a very me to say well hunted and very active campaign going on all of us ten years and so i feel as often is the case when you know the children are quiet you see what they're up to equally when suddenly a public relations campaign which is so wel

because president of gm ago but refuse to sign on with the eu by professor mark roman historian at oxford university thinks the street protesters don't speak for the majority of ukrainians the team of external to the majority. i suspect that occurred to the concrete is great the georgian people are often symptoms of pneumonia the solution scored sixteen of its arbitration to risk their lives. we have a forty two to one or two. maybe the other group almost reached the roof with an hour or two match was called to ask our doctor was determined to crawl. we were pretending to be moved into a quilt of state clinton who was hoping it will soon adorn on the same time. this code trees covered with paprika very own situation the question of the green buffalo state. despite the brussels the tables for surprise when they made this cute and decided not to join up with this agreement. is it what about losing face and even suicidal two inches from me i did actually work. it was too general would prefer to be the winners of two priests and they hope that this camera crew. the clue up to two so helpful to get to wo

the standoff may land ukraine for that i'm joined by professor mark almond he's a historian at oxford university well it looks as if the protesters really are now determined to topple the government is that really likely can likely to happen do you think. it's possible that there's a template that they're following which happened in belgrade in serbia in two thousand and daughter and two thousand and three storm public buildings hope to face a demoralized government and it has to be said the president of ukraine has exact so much not just over europe but even over the question of police in it is not quite clear whether he had ties in the stomach or the intellect to control the situation not the first time we've seen a revolution there what difference would a second one make while this is to be the great tragedy of ukraine doesn't it a generation ago and it's and told us that no nation can learn from experience with another nation but it would seem months in their own experience after all we had as you say to that aren't so-called orange revolution and that actually gave way. to terrible fault te

but professor mark allman historian at oxford university thinks the street protesters don't speak for the majority of ukrainians. i think we should because of attributing what's going on to the majority of people i suspect that the tragedy of the great majority of people rather passive and certainly all the dissolution about politics when both equation the risk now is that we have a hold of tickets to minorities and it may be that the group home the streets with kind of paramilitary nationalist support from the west not just western plane but also from some of the were pretty new countries they feel able to strip states of kind of who was seen anyone in time of same time and this could change go but it could lead to a very violent situation and it could be a question of the ukraine is viable state just finally brussels it was very surprised when they made this u. turn and decided not to join up with this agreement is it worried about losing face over this is it was there more to it just finally. i think brussels of the west in general would prefer to be winners out of this and they ho

professor mark allman a historian at oxford university though thinks the street protesters don't speak for the majority of ukrainians. i think we should be careful of attributing what's going on to the majority of people i suspect that the tragedy of the greatest great majority of people rather passive uncertain of all the dissolution about politics when both equation the risk now is that we have a hole that it's in to minorities and it may be that the group home streets with kind of paramilitary nationalist support from the west not just western from some of the were pretty new countries they feel able to strip states of kind of who was seen in any one time of same time and this could change go but it could lead to a very violent situation and it could be a question look at the ukraine is five it was a state just finally brussels evil's very surprised when they made this u. turn and decided not to join up with this agreement is it worried about losing face over this is it was there more to it just finally. i would i think brussels the west in general would prefer to be the winners out

persuade your publisher to waive the right to pakistan so that we can be so cheap or let the oxford universityress, which has a huge addition, i thought they would never agree to that, when heck freezes over. so i said that in a weak moment i heard these words coming out and i tried to prove them wrong. and i said perhaps i could write a little book and in doing the 12 steps to compassionate life, pakistan was looking at it in islamic terms and that's what it was. and at the end of the book we invited scholars and journalists to comment on and i said this is your letter and charter and you make of it as you wish. but actually that my publisher said, of course. so they also did a cheaper edition of the 12 steps. >> why the 12 steps? >> all pollux anonymous, of course. because compassion requires that we have the golden rule. never treat others in a way that you don't wish to be treated yourself. look into your own heart, discover what gives you pain and then refuse under any circumstances to inflict this on anyone house and confucius, the first person to enunciate this golden rule as far as we

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he had the oxford university press agreed to publish the book. sent it out the the viewers. i was one of the anonymous reviewers, got it, read it. this is going to be a 700-page book. didn't know when to start writing as happens with a lot of dedicated authors. and so my review said, this was a great book lurking in the 700 pages.

published by oxford university press called "health care case" it consistencies of 20 essays and different aspects of it. i wrote one of them on my what my view of the chief justice. it's a nice little book. >> it's a as fascinating case will there was so much going on outside the court too at the time. you talk about special interests so many organizations. so many law professors and others who wanted the court to go one way or the other were writing constantly. there are speeches on the floor of congress about it. i can't remember a time when there was a strong effort to get justices recused from the case as we saw with the effort against justices kagan and thomas. so it's really a fascinating case. it's worth reading what linda just suggested. and my chapter in the book. [laughter] >> sure. >> hi jack mac ken city. >> i can't see you with the lights. yes, you are jack mackenzie. >> it's nice to have you come this way. i would like both of you, if you could, to comment in some substance about what justice o'connor has said. i'll say one thing about it. i would love to hear anything you w

he had the oxford university press agreed to publish the book. sent it out the the viewers. i was one of the anonymous reviewers, got it, read it. this is going to be a 700-page book. didn't know when to start writing as happens with a lot of dedicated authors. and so my review said, this was a great book lurking in the 700 pages. but somebody needs to carve it out. and he died short shortly there after and oxford turned to me and said, how would you like to be the guy to carve it out. that's how i got involve in this project. >> how much did you have to write yourself? >> about 20% of the book. he had 250,000 words. my job, all they wanted was 150,000. i boiled it down to 120,000 of his words and added 30,000 of my own words as well as, what, 1400 footnotes and extensive bibliography and, you know, i knew what i was getting into for three years down the road. and, indeed, it's been every bit as challenging as i thought it would be. great fun and very satisfying. >> give us a specific on something that you thought had to be changed? >> overall, writer for 30 years for "time"

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margaret mellon, a professor of international history at university of oxford recalls the events that led to world war one in europe and the war that ended piece, the road to 1914. in lean n, women, work, and the will to lead, cheryl sandberg, the chief operating officer at facebook gives her thoughts on women and. for an extended list and links to various other publications, 2013 novel looks elections visit booktv.org website. >> you're watching book tv. next, elizabeth brown recalls confederate general robert e. lee's surrender to the ulysses s. grant-led union forces appomattox, virginia on april april 1865. this is about 45 minutes. [applause] >> thank you so much for that very, very kind introduction. is a pleasure to be here. robert e. lee surrendered to u.s. grain april 9, for most of american's a familiar tableau. here in the modest central virginia ament of appomattox court house. lee war of fine dress uniform and embody the prod gentility of the south's planter elite. grant dressed casually in a much better uniform representing the hardscrabble farmers and wage earners. afte

the social indicators i'm not saying it's a human development program of oxford university saying that colombia should have a replicated but i'm proud that this is happening in my country. and that's the success story i wanted to share with you. thank you. [applause] >> thank you. we have lots of questions on loss of topics. starting out the u.s. had to limit the military presence in south america due to sequestration and prioritizing the pacific. how concerned are you about the this especially for drug interdiction. is it something you talked about with president obama today? we value extreme lit help the u.s. has give us. colombia has been extremely useful. i say not because of the quantity. when you add up what colombia has given us versus what we have had to invest ourselves. it's very small percentage. the quality of that help in terms of intelligence, practical ways to be more effective in, for example, the fight against drug trafficking has been very useful. it's knowledge we have already acquired. and as i mentioned, it's a knowledge we are sharing with other countries. and in

roughly the first half of that period, he held sales and marketing management positions with oxford university press, blackwell publishing, little brown, houghton mifflin and walden books. he founded a group that sells scholarly books to bookstores in the northeast. spent a lot of his time on the road. i've known chris for way too many years and can attest that under the stereotypical cynical, gruff sales rep exterior is a cynical, you have sales rep -- gruff sales rep but with a heart of gold. [laughter] i'm counting on him to give a reality check from time to time, and if he can take a few minutes and talk about how sausages are made in the book business. [laughter] >> first, just a big shout out to city of gaithersburg. it says a lot about your community that you can organize this. i think logistics would be impossible without the full support of your municipal government, and i go to a lot of these affairs, and i'm just so impressed by the level of detail and, you know, the congeniality and also the support for authors and, you know, thank you very much. i graduated from high school in thi

. >> oxford university has digitized a 550-year-old guttenberg bible and put the whole thing online. if you really want to read it, you'll need to know latin, just a minor thing there, you know what i mean? the book is translated putting the guttenberg bible is part of a project by the palonzi foundation. >>> we're expecting arizona senator john mccain to take the stage any minute in opposition to a rally in the ukraine. we're seeing here this rally live right now. a protest began when the ukrainian president changed his stance on a trade pact with the european union. now, he refused to sign the agreement, which would have strengthened cooperation with the eu. now, instead, he opted for a closer ties with neighboring russia. mccain's move, likely, will not sit well with russian president vladimir putin. senator mccain says he expects that other u.s. senators will join him in these sanctions. he's backed personal sanctions against those involved and police crackdowns on oppositions, also protesters in kiev, ukrainian, he said during a statement as well. he says that we are on the side

published by oxford university press called "health care case" it consistencies of 20 essays and different aspects of it. i wrote one of them on my what my view of the chief justice. it's a nice little book. >> it's a as fascinating case will there was so much going on outside the court too at the time. you talk about special interests so many organizations. so many law professors and others who wanted the court to go one way or the other were writing constantly. there are speeches on the floor of congress about it. i can't remember a time when there was a strong effort to get justices recused from the case as we saw with the effort against justices kagan and thomas. so it's really a fascinating case. it's worth reading what linda just suggested. and my chapter in the book. [laughter] >> sure. >> hi jack mac ken city. >> i can't see you with the lights. yes, you are jack mackenzie. >> it's nice to have you come this way. i would like both of you, if you could, to comment in some substance about what justice o'connor has said. i'll say one thing about it. i would love to hear anything you w

the social indicators, i am not saying it, is the human development program of oxford university who is saying that columbia had a model that should be replicated worldwide. i am proud that this is happening in my country. that is the success story i wanted to share with you. [applause] >> thank you. we have lots of questions on lots of topics. the u.s. has had to limit its military presence in south america due to a quest ration and prioritizing the pacific. how concerned are you about this, especially in terms of drug trafficking? is this something you spoke about president obama today? >> we value extremely the help that the u.s. has given us. for columbia, it has been extremely useful. i say this not because of the quantity, when you add up what columbia has given us versus what we have had to invest ourselves, it is a very small percentage. but the quality of that help in terms of intelligence and practical ways to be more effective in for example the fight against drug trafficking, has been very useful. that is knowledge that we have party acquired. as i mentioned, it is knowle

by oxford university press. all of her oral history interviews as well. >> this is a critique of lyndon johnson and his role as a vice president. >> as his running mate -- to the majority leader. he was raised and mocking jack in every way. jack would say, you can never get an opinion out of him. they asked to go to luxembourg. you can have a president who is dying to give you a lot to do. to luxembourg -- and lyndon as vice president, he could just do anything. >> i want to read something from barbara's but before i get to michael. you said -- underneath a veil of lovely in consequence, she had tremendous awareness. people were struck by this -- she had a shrewd view of people, who the real people were and to the phonies were, those who are bright and those who were stupid. the papers were filled with her assessment. did john f. kennedy use this to his advantage as a political partnership. >> they had a mastery of television and that sort of thing. we will talk about the fact she did not have a major impact on

it's the human development or graham of oxford university that assaying colombia has a model that should be replicated worldwide. i am proud that this is happening in my country and that is the success story of that i wanted to share with you. thank you. [applause] >> thank you. we have lots of questions on lots of topics. starting out the u.s. has had to limit its military presence in south america due to sequestration and prioritizing the pacific. how concerned are you about this especially for drug interdiction? this is something you talked about with president obama today >> well, we value extremely to the help that the u.s. has given us. it has been extremely useful. not because of the quantity because when you add up what colombia has given us versus what we have had to invest ourselves, it's a very small percentage. the quality of that help in terms of intelligence, of practical ways to be more if in for example the fight against drug trafficking has been very useful but that is the knowledge that we have already acquired and as i mentioned it's the knowledge that we are sharing w

margaret mcmillan, professor of international history at the university of oxford, recalls the events that led to world war were in europe in "the war that ended peace."

. >> as a student, whether at georgetown university or oxford or yale, were you involved in the struggleof apartheid? i ask the question, because you're from arc saw, you're a southerner, and those days, there was a difference of opinion as far as south africa and apartheid was concerned. >> well, when he first -- keep in mind, most of those years you talked about were in the 1960s. it was very early, and he-hand then become the heroic figure that he later became, and the sanctions movement hadn't picked up a lot the steam. but i certainly knew who he was. i remember thinking about him more when robert kennedy took his famous trip to south africa and gave that amazing speech against apartheid. so i always followed him and always thought the sanctions were a good idea. i thought we needed to be on the side of saying, you know, this is not right, this cannot stand, we couldn't advance civil rights at home and go through all that we went through, including the martyrdom of martin luther king, who clearly, like gandhi, like mandela, was inspired by gandhi, and not stick up for south africa.

and the university of oxford is trying to quantify what is known as fear of missing out.he acronym is fomo. so andrew, what brought you to this topic? >> thank you for having me. i'm interested in why people choose to invest some of their time in social media as opposed to just meeting face-to-face. and this letup to my studies as one of the potential motivators. jenna: is the fear of missing out a real thing? >> yes, i do believe so. especially with really large international samples across the country. jenna: our senior producer has an amazing christmas tree and christmas setting. we will show some of those photo so we can all be jealous and have the fear of missing out on a greek christmas because this is what it looks like at his house. [laughter] so how do you quantify the jealousy? or the fear of missing out? >> we made a questionnaire and there's a lot of statistics, thousands of people all around the world, and we are figuring out what is the best to be with a feeling of apprehension and you log into facebook. jenna: who had the most anxiety and fear? >> in terms

university of toronto and met my father. host: so you're still canadian belinda oxford. -- but live at oxford.his is a long book, a detailed book. how did you do it? how much time did you have to spend on it? guest: i spent a lot of time. when i was writing it, i became almost totally obsessed by it. i lived as a hermit. i spent every day writing. i would come out of the barracks slightly red eyed looking like a strange vampire. but my family and friends are very good. they understood that i really just needed to focus on. i did. in a way, it is quite exhilarating. although you do become antisocial. host: odd and antisocial? but now you have to talk it. guest: it is the nicer part of writing a book. i have done all of the work on it and now i can talk to people like you who asked nice questions and want to talk. this is a pleasure compared to writing it. host: what is the atmosphere? who you are, and how you keep track of all this? is like an old monty python sketch. the character cap saying, my brain hurts. there are times when my brain -- them like trying to keep at many different levels. th

oxford. how many are there now? >> 41. it keeps growing. it's very much a collegiate university. cambridge is also. >> my college and st. anthony's college. we say it hastily. 442 students, all graduates. >> when did you find time to write this book. when did you start it? >> five years ago, started thinking about it. in a whey i don't like to employ the assistants, in a way i like them because my school is filled with lots of great students. i had wonderful students working for me. i spent 18 months writing it. i took a year's leave from college and put my head down and just wrote it. >> the war that ended peace, what did you start? when did you start writing about it? obviously went up to the assassination and start of the war. >> what i meant do and did are two different things. i wanted to write a book about the summer of 1914 when the final crisis blew up and we went to war. i said you have to understand why things went so badly wrong. europe found itself in a major war would understanding what had happened. in the end of the 1890s, germany decided to do a naval raid with great britain. great britain began to look

margaret mcmillan, a professor of international history at the university of oxford recalls the event that led to world war 1 in europe in the war that ended peace, the road to 1914. in lean in:women, work and the will to lead, cheryl sandberg, chief operating officer at facebook, gives her thoughts on women and leadership. for an extended list and were links to other publications 2013 notable book selections, visit booktv's web site, booktv.org. >> i wish you both very happy christmas and a bright and prosperous new year. >> pleasure to meet you, mr. santa claus and the sale of sales which begins on thanksgiving day by this year. would you mind autographing some of the christmas fields as a special favor for santa claus? ..

margaret mcmillan, professor of international history at the university of oxford, recalls the events that led to world war were in europe in "the war that ended peace." in "lean in: women, work and the will to lead," sheryl sandberg with, the chief operating officer at facebook, gives her thoughts on women and leadership. for an extended list and links to various other publications' 2013 notable book selections, visit booktv's web site, booktv.org. >> and now joining us on booktv is the author of this book, "the global vatican." ambassador francis rooney is the author, forward by ambassador john negroponte. barred rooney -- ambassador rooney, is the vatican a political organization? >> i think every civic organization is to some degree or another political. so one of the great things about the holy c is they're not a political organization like a government, like the united states or a secular government. they don't need to take credit for what they do. and some of the things i try to write in the book that make them uniquely important in the world in deploying their soft power is th