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THE VIEW FROM CENTER-RIGHT
Governor George Pataki and Max Boot
7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 11, 2025
Page Hall - University at Albany Downtown Campus135 Western Avenue, Albany NY 12203 See map.
Join us for a remarkable conversation between a three-term Republican Governor of New York and an influential Conservative thinker.
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George Pataki, 53rd Governor of the State of New York, was one of the longest-serving governors in the state’s history. First elected in 1994, he was reelected in 1998 and 2002, leaving office in 2006.
An advocate for small government, tax cuts, and the death penalty, he also prioritized the environment and open space preservation, protecting more than one million acres of wildland and farmland, and championing renewable energy and environmental conservation policies.
Pataki first entered the public eye as the youngest mayor ever of Peekskill, his hometown in New York's Hudson River Valley, before serving as a state representative and senator.
Max Boot is the author of the new biography, Reagan: His Life and Legend (2024), named a Best Book of the Year in the New York Times, Washington Post, NPR and The Economist.
General David Petraeus said, “This is the definitive Reagan biography that so many of us have been waiting for.” Son of the Midwest, movie star, and mesmerizing politician ― America’s 40th president comes to three-dimensional life in this gripping and profoundly revisionist biography.
An historian and foreign-policy analyst, Boot is the Jeane J. Kirkpatrick senior fellow for national security studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and a columnist for the Washington Post.
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Robert D. Kaplan’s newest book, Waste Land: A World in Permanent Crisis (Jan. 2025), offers an urgent exploration of a world in which every regional disaster threatens to become a global conflict— featuring lessons from history that may help us stop the spiral.
His 23 bestselling books on foreign affairs and travel include The Loom of Time (2023), The Revenge of Geography (2012), The Coming Anarchy (1994), and Balkan Ghosts (1993). For three decades he reported on foreign affairs for The Atlantic. Foreign Policy twice named him one of the world's Top 100 Global Thinkers.
Bartle Bull is the author of Land Between the Rivers: A 5,000-Year History of Iraq (2024), an epic, five millennia history of the region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers— the birthplace of civilization, and an essential crossroads between East and West up until today.
Bull has reported from the Middle East for the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Daily Telegraph, Foreign Policy, Die Welt, and other publications. He is the only western journalist to have been embedded with the Shia militia known as the Mahdi Army in Iraq.
Cosponsored by UAlbany’s Center for International Education and Global Strategy (CIEGS) and Student Fulbright Program; UAlbany Center for Global Health; the Fulbright Association- Eastern New York Chapter; Returned Peace Corps Volunteers of Northeastern New York; and the International Center of the Capital Region (ICCR) at HVCC.
In 2024, UAlbany was named “One of the Top 10 Fulbright Producing Institutions” by the U.S. State Department.