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from the issue of February 9, 2006
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Journalist to discuss rise of EU
BY TOM HANCOCK, UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS
The quiet rise of the European Union - from statecraft experiment to world power - will be traced when journalist T.R. Reid delivers the next E.N. Thompson Forum on World Issues talk, 7 p.m. Feb. 15 at the Lied Center for Performing Arts.
Reid, the Rocky Mountain bureau chief for the Washington Post, is one of the nation's best known correspondents through coverage of global affairs for the Post, his books and films, and light-hearted commentaries on National Public Radio.
Prior to Reid's talk, "The United States of Europe," Patrice Berger, professor of history at UNL, will offer a pre-forum talk at 6:30 p.m. in the Lied's Steinhart Room.
Reid forged a roundabout path to the Post. He majored in Latin and Greek at Princeton University, and subsequently worked as a teacher, a naval officer during the Vietnam War, then as a lawyer. He joined the Washington Post in 1977 and has covered Congress, national politics and four presidential campaigns. He has spent most of the past decade overseas, as the Post bureau chief in Tokyo and London.
Reid has written and hosted documentary films for National Geographic TV and the A&E network. He has also written six books in English, three in Japanese, and translated another from Japanese. His national best-selling book, "The United States of Europe," was published in 2004 and provides the basis for the Thompson lecture.
Reid says the European Union has rapidly grown to a resounding success, however Americans have thus far managed to ignore the geopolitical revolution under way across the Atlantic Ocean.
In his book, "The United States of Europe," Reid addresses the ascendancy of the European Union, which includes 450 million citizens, making it the larger and richer (in gross domestic product) than the United States. The union has more trade than the U.S. and boasts more votes on the United Nations Security Council and all other international organizations.
Reid's book follows the rise of the European Union, beginning with roots taking hold with Winston Churchill and other post-World War II visionaries searching for a means to end war in Europe. Reid shows how this effort to "create peace" also forged a global economic and political power that is often at odds with the United States.
The Thompson Forum is a cooperative project of the Cooper Foundation, the Lied Center for Performing Arts and UNL. The next Thompson Forum will feature Peter G. Peterson, who will speak on America and the world economy at 3:30 p.m. April 12 at the Lied Center.
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