Date/Time
Date(s) - April 9, 2025
7:00 pm
Location
Behavioral Sciences Building
Categories
An Imperial Republic? Democracy, Public Opinion, and U.S. Cold War Foreign Policy
About the Event: How have American leaders sought to gain popular support for ambitious foreign policies? Is it possible to reconcile the nation’s founding republican principles with imperial expansion? Can a superpower remain a republic? How can democracy work in the atomic age?
In this lecture, Nathan Citino explains how President Harry Truman and cold-war policy makers confronted questions about popular sovereignty that were as old as the United States. With help from the new science of public opinion research, Truman and his advisors invented a “American people” prepared to assume global leadership.
The lecture addresses themes of democracy and America’s place in the world that have been perennial topics of debate since the founding of the republic and that remain relevant today.
About the Lecturer: Nathan J. Citino is a historian of U.S. foreign relations specializing in the Middle East. Dr. Citino graduated with a B.A. from the University of Notre Dame and received his Ph.D. from Ohio State University. Dr. Citino’s most recent book, Envisioning the Arab Future: Modernization in U.S.-Arab Relations, 1945-1967, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2017.
From 2001-2014, Dr. Citino was associate editor of Diplomatic History. He has also served on the board of editors of the International Journal of Middle East Studies.
Time and Location: FREE | Thursday April 10 | 7:00 PM |Behavioral Sciences 131, 410 W Pitkin St, Fort Collins, CO 80523