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MEDIA
ACTIVITY 2007 Below is a summary of media activity in 2007. Media activity for 2000-2001 and 2003 -2004, 2004 -2005, and 2005-2006 is also available. Extensive outreach efforts ensure a wide audience for the Institute's policy analysis. The numerous books and articles on national and international affairs written by the Institute's senior fellows and professional staff and the ideas presented in World Policy Journal are often quoted in coverage of American foreign policy issues. World Policy Journal Editor Karl Meyer and the senior fellows are regularly asked to share their views on a wide range of policy issues. Articles, op-eds, and book reviews published in a wide array of newspapers, magazines, and journals, and commentary featured in the electronic media provide broad exposure for WPI policy recommendations. Public
Forums PUBLIC FORUMS Alon Ben-Meir hosted Bahranian Ambassador to the United States Al Belooshi in a conversation (Oct 2, 2007) for his continuing series “Global Leaders Series: Conversations with Alon Ben-Meir.” Details of this and other conversations can be found here. Ian Bremmer spoke at the World Alternative Investment Summit, Montreal Canada, Nov. 5-7, 2007. Belinda Cooper chaired the panel, “Truth Commissions, Transitional Justice, Victims and Perpetrators,” in Berlin for the Harvard Center for European Studies 2007-08 convention, “Borderlands,” Oct. 1, 2007. Stephanie Griest held a "Crash
Course in Memoir Writing Workshop" at MediaBistro in New York
City Nov. 7 from 7 p.m. - 10 p.m. Patrick Radden Keefe spoke about "The Espionage Industrial Complex: Costs of Privatizing Intelligence Post-9/11" at Tuesday, Oct. 2, at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of International Affairs. Mira Kamdar spoke at the Houston World Affairs Council, Sep. 26, 2007. Jeff Madrick participated in a one day workshop, “The Economics of Global Warming,” Oct. 12, The New School. Michele Wucker spoke at the Wake Forest University conference “Voices of our Time: Immigration - Recasting the Debate,” Oct 3-5, 2007. Michele Wucker spoke about “Fortress America: Tough Questions and Answers on Immigration” at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Sept 5, 2007. The webcast of Michele Wucker’s April 27, 2007 address to the New Voices, New Visions conference at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee was recently uploaded. . TV AND RADIO Nina Khrushcheva spoke on December 4, 2007 with Wisconsin Public Radio's Kathleen Dunn about Russia's parliamentary elections. CLICK FOR AUDIO Nina Khrushcheva participated in a debate on NPR's Intelligence Squared, arguing against the proposition that Russia is becoming America's enemy. CLICK FOR AUDIO Michele Wucker discussed current immigration policy and proposed reforms in many TV and radio media including Clear Channel Radio (June 14 and Sept. 24); Bloomberg Radio (Aug. 14), Newsweek On Air radio, June 9; Fox TV "Hannity & Colmes" June 4; NBC's Today Show May 19; WOR Radio (New York City) February 20; KBOO radio (Portland), January 29; New Jersey Public Radio, January 6; and in dozens of appearances on MSNBC. NEWSPAPER ARTICLES, OP-ED PIECES , CITATIONS, AND NEWSWIRES Alon Ben-Meir, “Mid-East Peace Conference Under the Shadow of the Iraq War,” Aug. 20, 2007. Ian Bremmer.
Turkey: Too Much Success? International Herald Tribune.
October 19, 2007. Ian Bremmer, “Zimbabwe’s Ruined Economy Signals End for Mugabe,” www.realclearpolitics.com, Aug. 7, 2007. Belinda Cooper translated Jochen Bittner’s “Among the Believers,” from the German for The Wall Street Journal, Sep. 21, 2007. Claudia Dreifus, “Through Analysis, Gut Reaction Gains Credibility,” The New York Times, Aug. 28, 2007. Claudia Dreifus, “A Conversation with Gino Segre: In the Footsteps of His Uncle, Then His Father,” The New York Times, Aug. 14, 2007. Mira Kamdar. China, Burma, and the West: A Conflict of Interests Commentisfree.com October 14, 2007 Mira Kamdar, “Climate Change Challenge for the Poor, Part II,” YaleGlobal, Sep. 28, 2007. Mira Kamdar, “Forget the Israel Lobby. The Hill’s Next Big Player is Made in India,” Washington Post Outlook, Sep. 30, 2007. Mira Kamdar, “India and the United States,” Forbes.com, Aug. 13, 2007. Nina Khrushcheva has published a number of pieces for Project Syndicate. Andrew Reding. “Why No Equal Rights for Serbs?” The Globe and Mail (Canada). November 2, 2007. Sherle Schwenninger. “Undebated Challenges,” The Nation, November 19, 2007. Kim Taipale. “Privacy vs. Security? Security.” HuffingtonPost.com, November 9, 2007. Michele Wucker.
"A Mexican Steinbeck's Work Resurfaces" Texas Observer.
November 2, 2007. "The High Price of China's Growth," UPI, Oct. 1, 2007. Michele Wucker, A Safe Haven in New Haven, The New York Times, April 15, 2007. Michele Wucker, Family Second, The New York Times. February 28, 2007. Michele Wucker, "Borderline Pandering." April 11, 2007. (CommentIsFree.com) George Bush and John McCain used to support sensible immigration reform. So why are they now pandering to a vocal minority of immigration hardliners?
MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS Sherle Schwenninger co-authored with Bernard Schwartz, “Public Investment Works: Since 1993 balanced budgets have been liberals’ holy grail. It’s time to reconsider,” for Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, #6, Fall 2007. BOOK REVIEWS Belinda Cooper wrote a review of Five Years of My Life: An
Innocent Man at Guantanamo in Internationale Politik (Global
edition). Michele Wucker reviewed three new books bringing different interpretations to the nation's struggle with immigration in "Wanted But Not Welcome" in The Texas Observer, March 23, 2007. BOOKS AND CHAPTERS Stephanie Griest's guidebook, 100 Places Every Woman Should Go (Traveler's Tales, 2007) won the GOLD PRIZE for Best Travel Book of 2007 in the Society of American Travel Writers Foundation's Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Competition. Mira Kamdar, Planet India (2007) launched Scribner’s new imprint in India, where it is near the top of the Best Seller list. "This book is an absolute MUST read. It's by far the best book on India and globalization to date and on top of that it's a fun read." (Clyde Prestowitz, author of Rogue Nation and Three Billion New Capitalists). More Praise from Asia Times Jul. 28, 2007 Zachary Karabell, Peace Be Upon You: Fourteen Centuries of Muslim, Christian, and Jewish Coexistence in the Middle East (Knopf, 2007). “Historians have so often focused on religious conflict--crusades, jihads, pogroms--that Karabell fears many readers have forgotten how often the devout have lived in peace with those of different faiths.” (Booklist, starred review) 2007 New In Paperback: Michele Wucker, Lockout: Why America Keeps Getting Immigration Wrong When Our Prosperity Depends on Getting It Right (PublicAffairs, August 2007). "A forcefully argued and informative book...both correct and important" –/Washington Post Book World/ A Book World “Best Nonfiction of 2006” Selection Silvana Paternostro’s memoir, My Colombian War: A Journey Through the Country I Left Behind (Henry Holt, 2007) was published in November 2007. “An intensely personal memoir, it demonstrates at the same time a firm grasp of the political, economic, and social realities that provide the background against which the headline news of Colombia in 2007, and 2008 and succeeding years, will continue to unfold. It makes fascinating reading.”—David Fromkin, Professor of International Relations, Boston University. Read a preview in the September 16, 2007 New York Times Magazine “Lives” column Nina Khruscheva’s new book, Imagining Nabokov: Russia Between Art and Politics was published in November 2007 by Yale University Press. Claudia Dreifus is working on a book on
higher education with political scientist Andrew Hacker. Coming in 2008: The French edition of MIRA KAMDAR’S new book will be published in January 2008 as Planet India: L’Ascension turbulente d’un géant démocratique (Actes Sud; translator Andre Levin). The U.S. paperback edition, following the February 2007 hardcover, will be published in February 2008 with a new subtitle as Planet India: The Turbulent Rise of the Largest Democracy and the Future of Our World. Pre-purchase a copy at Amazon here. WPI Senior Fellow Eric Alterman’s new book, Why We're Liberals: A Political Handbook for Post-Bush America, will be published by Viking in March 2008. In June 2008, W.W. Norton will publish Kingmakers: The Invention of the Modern Middle East, by World Policy Journal editor KARL MEYER and Shareen Blair Brysac. Kingmakers tells the story of how the modern Middle East came to be, told through the lives of the Britons and Americans who shaped it. The narrative is character driven (from Lawrence of Arabia to Paul Wolfowitz and many more in between), whose aim is to restore to life the colorful figures who for good or ill gave us the Middle East in which Americans are enmeshed today. Pre-purchase a copy at Amazon here.
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