{"id":4645,"date":"2022-02-22T13:05:25","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T13:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/veranstaltung\/the-churchill-complex"},"modified":"2025-12-03T10:59:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T10:59:06","slug":"the-churchill-complex","status":"publish","type":"kreisky_event","link":"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/en\/veranstaltung\/the-churchill-complex","title":{"rendered":"THE CHURCHILL COMPLEX"},"content":{"rendered":"

YouTube premiere \"From Kreisky's living room\"<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

NINA KHRUSHCHEVA IN CONVERSATION WITH IAN BURUMA
\nTHE CHURCHILL COMPLEX<\/h4>\n

It is impossible to understand the last seventy-five years of American history, through to Trump and Brexit, without understanding the Anglo-American relationship, particularly the bonds between Presidents and Prime Ministers. Today, the bond between Donald Trump and Boris Johnson illuminates the populist uprisings in both countries, as well as a new kind of special relationship that goes against everything it once stood for. Remembering the past, even its most glorious moments, can be as misleading as forgetting it. Over and over, in the name of freedom and democracy, British and especially American leaders have evoked Winston Churchill as a model for brave leadership (and Nevillle Chamberlain to represent craven weakness). As Ian Buruma shows, the myths of WW2 too often resulted in bad policies and foolish wars.<\/p>\n

But the Churchill Complex is much more than a reflection on the weight of Churchill's legacy and its misuses. At its heart are shrewd and absorbing character studies of the President-Prime Minster dyads, which serve as a master class in politics, diplomacy, and the personal quirks of our leaders. It has never been a relationship of equals, British Prime Ministers have put much more stock in the relationship than their US counterparts. After the loss of its once-great empire, Britain clung to the world's greatest superpower as a path to continued relevance and leverage. As Buruma shows, this was almost always fool's gold, and now, the alliance has floundered on the rocks of isolationism. The Churchill Complex may not have a happy ending, but as with Ian Buruma's Other works, piercing lucidity is its own lasting<\/p>\n

Ian Buruma<\/strong>, writer and editor; in 2017, he became editor of The New York Review of Books, but left the position in September 2018. He was the Paul W. Williams Professor of Human Rights and Journalism at Bard College from 2003 to 2017<\/p>\n

Nina Khurshcheva<\/strong>, Professor of International Affairs at The New School, New York, BKF Senior Fellow<\/p>\n

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Watch the video<\/a><\/h4>\n

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Ian Buruma:<\/strong><\/em>
\nThe Churchill Complex<\/strong><\/em>
\nTHE CURSE OF BEING SPECIAL, FROM WINSTON AND FDR TO TRUMP AND BREXIT<\/strong><\/em>
\nPaperback | $18.00<\/strong><\/em>
\nPublished by Penguin Books<\/strong><\/em>
\nSep 07, 2021,<\/span>\u00a0ISBN 9780525522225<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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