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The
Devil Came on Horseback
Recognizing the ongoing
relevance of the Darfur tragedy, World Policy
Journal is now offering new subscribers, or
current subscribers who
renew for two years, a free DVD of the acclaimed
documentary, The Devil Came on Horseback,
about Steidles quest to awaken the world to the
tragedy in Darfur.
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November 29, 2007 --
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Che
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Steven Soderberghs feature film
about the Argentine-Cuban revolutionary, starring Benicio
del Toro. The director and producers traveled to Cuba to
work on the film with WPI Senior Fellow Silvana Paternostro,
who is an Associate Producer on the films, and former WPI
Director Stephen Schlesinger (see the
CNN video). They both can be seen briefly on screen. Go
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RECENT
EVENTS
When Guns and Bombs
Fall Short:
Human Security Challenges for the Next President
Panel
discussion with Patricia DeGennaro, Dana Fisher, Sakiko
Fukada-Parr
Moderated by Adaora Udoji
Wednesday,
November 12
The Forever War
A book discussion with author
Dexter Filkins and interlocuter Lawrence Wright
Thursday, November 6
Understanding Our World: Election Night with the
World Policy Journal and 92nd Street Y
Panel
discussion and reception featuring Stephen Schlesinger,
Nina Khrushcheva, Jack Devine, Edward Luttwak and
moderator David A. Andelman.
November 4,
2008
A Shattered Peace: Versailles 1919 and the Price We Pay
Today
A book
discussion with David A. Andelman
At
Columbia
University
October 28, 2008
The Shape of the World to
Come: Charting the Geopolitics of a New Century
An evening
with author Laurent Cohen-Tanugi and
discussant
and moderator David A. Andelman
Columbia
University School of International and Public Affairs
Monday,
October 27
Muslims of
Metropolis
A book
discussion with WPI Senior Fellow
Kavitha Rajagopalan
At The New
School
Friday, October 24
China Ink: The
Changing Face of Chinese Journalism
The Open
Society Institute, in collaboration with the China
Institute, the Overseas Press
Club, and the World Policy Institute, will host a book
discussion with Judy Polumbaum Aryeh Neier.
October 23,
2008.
The Environmental
Threat to India's Future
A discussion
with WPI Senior Fellow Mira Kamdar
At The Graduate Center,
City University of New York
Tuesday,
October 7
Global Creative Leadership Summit
The World Policy Institute partners with the Global
Creative Leadership summit to discuss some of the most
crucial common global issues of the next century.
September 21-23, 2008 |
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Mexican
Enough
Stephanie Elizondo
Griest will be reading from and discussing her book in
New York City September 30 and October 8.
Click on the book cover to order. For dates in other
cities please visit
www.aroundthebloc.com. |
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Kingmakers 
book discussion
with authors Karl Meyer and Shareen Blair Brysac and
discussant Faisal Devji.
At The New School.
September 15
Click on the image to order the book.
More information and other reading dates are at
www.kingmakersbook.com
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Immigration and
Globalization
With authors Rinku Sen and David Bacon
At Demos
September 11 |
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Press
Release:
Fall 2008 25th
Anniversary Issue, World Policy Journal
October
29, 2008
The new Foreign Policy magazine "Global
Go-To Think Tanks Survey"
published today in collaboration with the University
of Pennsylvania's Think Tanks and Civil Societies
program ranks the World Policy Institute #16 among
the top 30 U.S. think tanks.
Kavitha Rajagopalan
The
full video of the November 7 "Muslims
of Metropolis" book discussion is now online!
Patricia DeGennaro
"Reacting
to Richardson"
US Women's Business Journal
December 9, 2008
Ian Bremmer
"Mumbai
Carnage Shakes India's Political Landscape,"
RealClearPolitics
December
7, 2008.
Mira
Kamdar
"A
Gash in the Fabric of Mumbai"
Washington Post
December 7, 2008
Mira
Kamdar
analyzed the Mumbai terrorist attacks on CNN,
November 26, 2008.
Michele Wucker
"Great
Expectations: Challenges for the Next Secretary of
State"
The Women's MediaCenter
November 25, 2008
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WORLD POLICY BOOKS
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Books --Follow this
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purchase books with origins in World Policy
Journal articles
World Policy
Institute
Books --Follow this
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purchase books by WPI fellows and advisors
Click on the book covers for details or to order
Martin Walker's
new book
Bruno, Chief of Police was published in England in May 2008
and it is due to be released in the US in January 2009.
Kavitha Rajagopalan's
Muslims of Metropolis
was
published by Rutgers University Press
in
August 2008.
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 Mira
Kamdar's
Planet India was released in paperback,
Scribner (February 19, 2008) |
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 Silvana
Paternostro's memoir and socio-political narrative,
My Colombian War,
was published by Henry Holt and Co, November 2007.
 Eric Alterman's
Why We're Liberals was published by
Viking
Adult, March 2008.
A
PROGRESSIVE BOOK CLUB SELECTION
 Nina
Khrushcheva's
Imagining Nabokov: Russia Between Art and Politics,
was released by Yale University Press January 9, 2008.
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