No Going Back: Europe and America at a Crossroads [Scarborough]

The Scarborough Public Library will host its next Camden Conference Community Event of the season on Tuesday November 17, at 6:00 p.m.

The transatlantic relationship has been the cornerstone of global security since 1945. For decades the United States and its European allies stood shoulder to shoulder against external threats, from Soviet expansionism during the Cold War to Islamist terror attacks on 9/11. But now the relationship is undergoing profound changes and some experts say it is even in danger of collapsing altogether. What is happening and why? And can the relationship be saved?

Presenter Andrea Stanley Hester is an instructor at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Southern Maine, where she teaches classes in European history and political science. She is a former president of both the World Affairs Council of Maine and the Harvard Club in Maine. Andrea was previously an editor/writer for the president of Harvard University and also the administrator of the International Visitors Program in the Office of the University Marshal at Harvard. She has a bachelor’s degree in history from Tufts University and a master’s degree in government from the Harvard Extension School. She and her husband, Chris, are new empty nesters who live in North Yarmouth with their two cats.

This will be a hybrid event, held both in-person and online. For a Zoom link please contact librarian Elsa Rowe ([email protected])