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WPI IN THE NEWS
“N.H. Upset Shows Media Focus Should be on Issues,” by ERIC ALTERMAN in Newsday.com. January 13, 2008.
Belinda Cooper. "Postcards from Guantanamo," Internationale Politik, Global Edition, December 2007
IAN BREMMER
authored “Careful
What You Ask For: The Olympics will Shine
a Light on China,” Philadelphia
Inquirer, Martin Walker. “Globalization 2.0,” Wilson Quarterly, Autumn 2007.
Sherle Schwenninger.
Undebated Challenges The Nation. November 19, 2007. Andrew Reding. Why No Equal Rights for Serbs? The Globe and Mail. November 2, 2007. Michele Wucker. A Mexican Steinbeck's Work Resurfaces. Texas Observer. November 2, 2007. Ian Bremmer. Too Much Success? International Herald Tribune. October 19, 2007. Mira Kamdar. China, Burma, and the West: A Conflict of Interests. Commentisfree.com October 14, 2007 Martin Walker is now Editor
Emeritus and international affairs columnist, writing the syndicated
column 'Walker's World,' for United Press International. Recent
articles: WPI Senior Fellow 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. Ian Bremmer, “The twilight nears for Pakistan’s Pervez Musharraf,” The Daily Star, Sep. 11, 2007. Ian Bremmer, “Zimbabwe’s Ruined Economy Signals End for Mugabe,” www.realclearpolitics.com, Aug. 7, 2007. WPI Senior Fellow Belinda Cooper translated Jochen Bittner’s “Among the Believers,” from the German for The Wall Street Journal, Sep. 21, 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, “Climate Change Challenge for the Poor, Part II,” YaleGlobal, Sep. 28, 2007. WPI Senior Fellow Claudia Dreifus, “Through Analysis, Gut Reaction Gains Credibility,” The New York Times, Aug. 28, 2007. WPI Senior Fellow Alon Ben-Meir, “Mid-East Peace Conference Under the Shadow of the Iraq War,” Aug. 20, 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, “India and the United States,” Forbes.com, Aug. 13, 2007. WPI Senior Fellow Nina Khrushcheva has published a number of pieces for Project Syndicate. *** MEDIA CITATIONS MIRA KAMDAR was interviewed for Outlook (India) on January 28, 2008, for the article, “Out Here The Nano is a No-No.”
Canada’s National Post reviewed NINA KHRUSHCHEVA’s new book, Imagining Nabokov, on January 19, 2008.
NINA KHRUSHCHEVA was featured in Canada’s National Post in the article, “When Nina Khrushcheva Lists Russian Despots, She Doesn’t Omit Her Grandfather,” on January 19, 2008.
A US News and World Report article, “Rising Anti-Americanism in Russia,” cited NINA KHRUSHCHEVA, January 18, 2008.
Fellows IAN CUTHBERTSON and BELINDA COOPER were cited in “The Fog of War Crimes,” an article penned by former WPI Project Leader Frida Berrigan for ZNet, January 8, 2008.
SHERLE SCHWENNINGER was cited in the January 12, 2008 Las Vegas Sun article, “Fix the Economy, but How?”
IAN BREMMER announced Eurasia Group’s annual list of Top Risks on January 7, 2008.
NINA KHRUSHCHEVA was cited in The New York Times, “Rubles are a Girl’s Best Friend,” December 9, 2007.
MIRA KAMDAR’S Planet India was included in The Nation's 2007 list of best books on Asia. Swadesh Rana was interviewed on January 2, 2008 at 12 noon on Voice of America radio about the postponement of elections in Afghanistan following the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. A half-hour interview with Michele Wucker on the radio show "Dialogo de dos Pueblos" was broadcast December 16, 2007 and January 27, 2008, via Canal de Noticias (CdN) in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Nina Khrushcheva was interviewed December 4, 2007, on Russia's parliamentary elections. CLICK FOR AUDIO
Ian Cuthbertson
was cited in an International Security Network Security Watch
article, “Ameripol
Comes to Life,” by Sam Logan,
Belinda Cooper was interviewed by “All Things Considered” commentator Melissa Block on the controversial Congressional resolution recognizing the Turkish genocide of the Armenians in the early 20th century. October 16, 2007. Listen to the audiocast here. WPI Senior Fellow Ian Cuthbertson was quoted in Investors Business Daily, “Jihad on our Shores,” August 10, 2007. Mira Kamdar was quoted in Bloomberg.com, “Indian Business Plans to Use Expatriates as Nuclear Lobbyists,” June 1, 2007. Michele Wucker appeared recently on MSNBC (Sept. 23, 2007), Bloomberg Radio (Aug. 14), and Clear Channel Radio (Sept. 24) to discuss current immigration policy and proposed reforms. *** LECTURES AND PANELS MICHELE WUCKER will speak at the Seventh Annual International Women's Day Conference, "Women in Politics: Changing the Face of Power," at the Daniel Arts Center Bard College at Simon's Rock in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. For more information: www.simons-rock.edu, email iwd@simins-rock.edu, or call 413-528-7394.
“The Prophet of Post-Communism: Vladimir Nabokov and Russian Politics,” is the title of NINA KHRUSHCHEVA’s lecture at the Kennan Institute, Washington DC, January 28, 2008.
MASARU TAMAMOTO spoke about "Japan's Politics of Cultural Shame" at an East Asian Institute Lecture at the University of Cambridge, January 28, 2008.
MASARU TAMAMOTO delivered the Alumni and Friends Lecture on "Japan and the World: Perspectives of a Changing Country" on January 22, 2008 at the MCI Management Center Innbruck, Austria University of Applied Sciences.
IAN BREMMER was the Keynote speaker at the Major Business Forum, 2008 in Grand Cayman January 17, 2008. Masaru Tamamoto delivered the Alumni and Friends Lecture on "Japan and the World: Perspectives of a Changing Country" on January 22, 2008 at the MCI Management Center Innbruck, Austria University of Applied Sciences. Masaru Tamamoto spoke about "Japan's Politics of Cultural Shame" at an East Asian Institute Lecture at the University of Cambridge, January 28, 2008. 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” at the Harvard Center for European Studies in Berlin (panelists included former WPI project leaders Priscilla Hayner and Lars Waldorf), October 1, 2007. Stephanie Griest held a "Crash
Course in Memoir Writing Workshop" at MediaBistro
in New York City Nov. 7, 2007 WPI Senior Fellow Jeff Madrick participated in a one day workshop, “The Economics of Global Warming,” Oct. 12, 2007, The New School. WPI Project Leader Patrick Radden Keefe spoke about "The Espionage Industrial Complex: Costs of Privatizing Intelligence Post-9/11" Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2007, at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of International Affairs. Mira Kamdar spoke at the Houston World Affairs Council, Sep. 26, 2007. Nina Khrushcheva, author of Imagining Nabokov: Russia between Art and Politics, discussed her new book at The Harriman Institute at Columbia University December 5, 2007. To a standing-room-only audience, Silvana Paternostro read from and discussed her new book, My Colombian War, December 10, 2007, at The Half King in New York City. Michele Wucker spoke at the Wake Forest University conference “Voices of our Time: Immigration - Recasting the Debate,” Oct 3-5, 2007. Click HERE for webcast and podcast. 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. *** BOOKS The French edition of Senior Fellow Mira Kamdar's new book was 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 February 19, 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 co-author 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. New Books in 2007: WPI Senior Fellow Silvana Paternostro’s memoir, My Colombian War: A Journey Through the Country I Left Behind (Henry Holt, 2007) is available November 13, 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 WPI Senior Fellow Nina Khruscheva’s new book, Imagining Nabokov: Russia Between Art and Politics will be published in November 2007 by Yale University Press. WPI Senior Fellow 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. WPI Senior Fellow Mira Kamdar’s 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 WPI Board Member Zachary Karabell’s 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) New In
Paperback WPI Executive Director Michele Wucker’s 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
OTHER NEWS WPI Senior Fellow Stephanie Elizondo Griest, an intrepid journalist who seamlessly weaves reportage and memoir, has won the 2007 Richard J. Margolis Award. The Richard J. Margolis Award is given annually to a promising nonfiction writer whose work combines warmth, humor, wisdom and concern with social justice. The 2007 award is accompanied by a $5,000 honorarium and a one-month residency at Blue Mountain Center (Blue Mountain, New York), the award's sponsor.For more on the Margolis Award, visit www.margolis.com/award. Claudia Dreifus was awarded the American Society of Journalists and Authors’ highest honor, the Career Achievement Award. April 20, 2007 World Policy Journal Managing Editor Ben Pauker’s film, “Congo: On the Trail of an AK-47 (China’s Calling Card to Africa)” is now available online on PBS’ Frontline. Martin Walker has been appointed Head of A.T. Kearney's Global Policy Council.
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