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Karl
Meyer, who has edited World Policy Journal since the
year 2000, is an experienced writer and commentator on international
affairs, a former editorial writer for both the New York
Times and the Washington Post, the author of
a dozen books, and a visiting professor at Yale, Princeton, Tufts,
and most recently Bard College. Born in Wisconsin, he earned his
BA at the state university and his masters degree in public affairs
and PhD at Princeton University, and he has been a visiting fellow
at Oxford University and Berlin's Institute for Advanced Study.
His recent writings have focused on the imperial and postimperial
age in South Asia and the former Soviet Union, and he has written--with
his wife, Shareen Brysa--Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game
and the Race for Empire in Asia. His latest book, The Dust
of Empire, reissued in paperback in 2004 by Public Affairs,
examines the present and past of Russia and the West's involvement
with Central Asia, Iran, the Caucasus, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.
Dr. Meyer is a member of the Toynbee Prize Foundation, among other
honors. Meyer and his wife are currently writing a book on the dozen
Britons and Americans who shaped today 's Middle East.
Linda
Wrigley has been associated with World Policy Journal
since 1993, for the past six years as managing editor. She was formerly
an archivist on the staff of the Sterling Library at Yale University,
director of the study of the consumers' movement at Consumers Union
and was associate director of the Lehrman Institute, a New York
City think tank that focused on foreign affairs and economic policy.
She has also worked as a freelance book editor for foundations and
university presses, specializing in books on international affairs.
Her publications include the coedited volumes Greece at the
Crossroads: The Civil War and Its Legacy (with John Iatrides),
Immigration and U.S. Foreign Policy (with Robert W. Tucker
and Charles B. Keeley), and The Atlantic Alliance and Its Critics
(with Robert W. Tucker).
Benjamin
Pauker, the Associate Editor/Associate Publisher of World
Policy Journal, was a cofounder of Northeast Adventure
magazine where he served as editor from 1997 to 1999. A graduate
of the University of Rochester, he also worked for the Corporate
Strategy Board in Washington, D.C. from 1999 to 2000.
Senior Fellows and Project Leaders In any given year, there are up to 25 key policy analysts serving as senior fellows of the World Policy Institute. Their research, publications, public appearances and commentary in the print and electronic media comprise a body of work that makes the Institute an unparalleled leader in the national and international policy arenas. Eric
Alterman Termed
"the most honest and incisive media critic writing today" in the
National Catholic Reporter and author of "the smartest
and funniest political journal out there" in the San Francisco
Chronicle, Eric Alterman is the media columnist for the Nation,
the "Altercation" weblogger for MSNBC.com (www.altercation.msnbc.com),
and a fellow at the Center for American Progress, where he writes
and edits the "Think Again" column. Dr. Alterman is the author of
the national bestsellers What Liberal Media? The Truth About
Bias and the News (2003, 2004) and The Book on Bush: How
George W. (Mis)leads America (with Mark Green, February 2004).
His most recent book is When Presidents Lie: A History of Official
Deception and Its Consequences (2004,2005). His Sound and
Fury: The Making of the Punditocracy (1992, 2000), won the
1992 George Orwell Award and his It Ain't No Sin to Be Glad
You're Alive: The Promise of Bruce Springsteen (1999, 2001)
won the 1999 Stephen Crane Literary Award. Dr. Alterman is also
the author of Who Speaks for America? Why Democracy Matters
in Foreign Policy(1998). A contributor to virtually every significant
national public affairs publication in the U.S. and many in Europe,
in recent years he has also been a contributing editor to, or columnist
fo,r Worth, Rolling Stone, Elle, Mother Jones, World Policy
Journal, and the London Sunday Express. A senior fellow
of the World Policy Institute at The New School and adjunct professor
of journalism at Columbia University, Dr. Alterman received his
BA in history and government from Cornell, his MA in international
relations from Yale, and his PhD in U.S. history from Stanford.
He lives in New York City with his family and is at work on a history
of postwar liberalism. He can be contacted via e-mail at whatliberalmedia@aol.com.
Dr.
Alon Ben-Meir,
Middle East Project Director for the WPI, is a professor of international
relations and Middle Eastern Studies at The New School and at New
York University. Born in Baghdad, Dr. Ben-Meir has resided in the
United States since the late 1960s. Dr. Ben-Meir earned his master's
degree in philosophy and doctorate in international relations from
Oxford University. The author of numerous books, including the acclaimed
Middle East: Imperatives and Choices and the newly released
A War We Must Win and The Last Option, Dr. Ben-Meir
is a syndicated columnist for United Press International, with articles
appearing regularly in U.S. and international newspapers such as
the Washington Times, the Chicago Tribune, and
the Jerusalem Post. Many periodicals, including Middle
East Insight, Mediterranean Quarterly, and Middle
East Policy rely on Ben-Meir's expertise for monthly contributions
and insights into the Middle Eastern conflict. Dr. Ben-Meir has
been sought as an expert by the Today show, CNN, Fox News,
and The O'Reilly Factor. For more information on Dr. Ben-
Meir, visit www.alonbenmeir.com.
Paul
Berman
is a political and literary journalist who has reported from various
countries in Latin America and Europe and has commented frequently
on American foreign policy. His books include Terror and Liberalism
(2003), which has been translated into seven languages, and A
Tale of Two Utopias: The Political Journey of the Generation of
1968. He is a contributing editor to the New Republic
and a member of the editorial board of Dissent.
Ian Bremmer is president of Eurasia Group, the political risk consultancy. Bremmer's research focuses on US foreign policy, states in transition, and global political risk. His five books include Nations and Politics in the Soviet Successor States (Cambridge University Press, 1993), which became the standard college text on the post-Soviet states. In 2001, Bremmer authored Wall Street's first global political risk index, now the DESIX (Deutsche Bank Eurasia Group Stability Index)--a joint venture with investment bank Deutsche Bank. Bremmer has also published over 100 articles and essays in International Affairs, The Harvard Business Review, World Policy Journal, The New Republic, The New Statesman, Fortune, The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, The International Herald Tribune, and The New York Times. He is a columnist for The Financial Times, contributing editor at The National Interest, and a political commentator on CNN, FoxNews and CNBC. Bremmer has spent much of his time advising world leaders who share a commitment to a pro-engagement US foreign policy towards the developing world, including US Senators John Kerry (D-MA) and Lamar Alexander (R-TN), Japanese Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi, and former Russian Prime Minister Sergei Kiriyenko. Bremmer received his
PhD in political science from Stanford University in 1994. He went
on to the faculty of the Hoover Institution where, at 25, he became
the Institution's youngest ever National Fellow. He has held research
and faculty positions at Columbia University (where he presently
teaches), the EastWest Institute, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,
and the World Policy Institute, where he has served as Senior Fellow
since 1997. He lives in New York.
Michael A. Cohen, is Co-Director of The Privatization of Foreign Policy Project. Mr. Cohen brings a wealth of experience as both a writer and observer of foreign policy. He previously served in the U.S. Department of State from 1997 -1999 as chief speechwriter for U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Bill Richardson and Undersecretary of State, Stuart Eizenstat. He also worked as the chief speechwriter for Senator and then-DNC Chairman, Chris Dodd. Before that he worked at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace as well as Foreign Policy magazine, and for the past four years, he has been a freelance speechwriter and consultant for a number of corporate and political clients. Mr. Cohen has ghostwritten two books--one a memoir of a prominent Democrat political consultant the other —In the Campaign Trail‚ a history of U.S. Presidential campaigns. He is currently writing a biography of former Yugoslav Prime Minister, Milan Panic. In addition, Mr. Cohen is an adjunct professor at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. He holds a bachelor's degree in international relations from American University and a Master's degree from Columbia University.
Belinda
Cooper
lived in Berlin, Germany, for many years and has engaged in research
and writing on the social and cultural aspects of Germany's post-cold
war search for a unified national identity, as well as on the experience
of Jews in Gemany. She holds a law degree from Yale Law School and
taught most recently as a visiting assistant professor of law at
Ohio Northern University Pettit College of Law. Her legal teaching
and research focus on international human rights, international
law, and women and law. She has edited a book on international war
crimes tribunals (War Crimes: The Legacy of Nuremberg,
TV Books, 1999), and her articles have appeared in the New
York Times, the Christian Science Monitor, LA Weekly,
and other newspapers and journals in the United States and Germany.
Ms. Cooper has taken part in human rights fact-finding missions
and has coauthored reports on domestic violence in Armenia, Uzbekistan,
and Tanzania. In 2002 she was a fellow at the American Academy in
Berlin, researching a project on German policy toward single parents.
She is also a translator of German scholarly books and articles.
Ian
M. Cuthbertson is a senior fellow at the World Policy Institute
and Director of the WPI's Counterterrorism Project. He is a former
member of the Diplomatic Service of the United Kingdom, was vice
president of Programs at the EastWest Institute in New York, and
is a past editorial director and executive vice president of the
media publishing company TV Books. He also serves as a consultant
on security issues to a number of governments, international organizations,
and multinational companies. His current work explores future options
for American and Western foreign and defense policy, particularly
in the area of countering the threat from terrorism. During the
past year, he has been active in speaking at meetings, seminars,
and conferences at universities and policy forums, as well as in
a variety of media appearances on the continuing risks and threats
posed by both international and domestic terrorism, in particular
the spread of radical Islamist terrorist networks within a variety
of Western penal systems. He is the author and editor of a number
of books and articles on European military affairs, transatlantic
security issues, and the balance between protecting civil liberties
and conducting essential intelligence-gathering in the war on terrorism.
Most recently, he was the co-editor, with Professor Heinz Gaertner,
of the book European Security and Transatlantic Relations after
9/11 and the War in Iraq: A Fork in the Road. He also had the
pleasure of writing a new introduction to a revised edition of Francis
Parkman's seminal study on the French and Indian Wars: Montcalm
and Wolfe.
Claudia
Dreifus continues
her "Conversations..." feature in the Tuesday Science
section of the New York Times. She is also a Contributing
Editor of AARP's AARP-The Magazine. Her work this year has
appeared in Scientific American, Smithsonian, the AARP Bulletin,
the AARP's Voices of Civil Rights Project, the New York Times
Travel and Ideas sections. In addition to teaching at Columbia University's
School of International and Public Policy, she is writing a book
on higher education with political scientist Andrew Hacker.
Stephanie Elizondo Griest is a Chicana author, speaker, and activist from South Texas. Her memoir, "Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana" (Villard/Random House, 2004) documents her four-year excursion to 12 communist and post-communist societies, where -- among other things -- she taught journalism at China Daily as a Henry Luce Scholar and volunteered at a Russian children's shelter. It won the National Association of Travel Journalists of America's "Best Travel Book of 2004" award. She has also written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Associated Press, Latina Magazine, and Bitch, and recently received a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University to write a second memoir that combines her travels in Mexico with family history there and the stories of undocumented workers. As a national correspondent for The Odyssey: US Trek, she once drove 45,000 miles across the United States, documenting histories traditionally left out of classroom textbooks for a Web site monitored by 500,000 K-12 students. The co-founder and director of the Youth Free Expression Network, a project of the National Coalition Against Censorship, she frequently writes and speaks out for the civil liberties of young people. A sought-after public speaker, she has performed in venues ranging from Royal Festival Hall in London to salons in Mexico to universities, public schools, and community centers throughout the United States. She can be contacted via her Web site at www.aroundthebloc.com.
William
D. Hartung is
the president's fellow at the World Policy Institute and director
of the institute's Arms Trade Project. Mr. Hartung is the author
or coauthor of numerous books and studies, including How Much
Are You Making on the War, Daddy? A Quick and Dirty Guide to War
Profiteering in the Bush Administration (Nation Books/Avalon
Group,2004); a chapter in Patriotism, Democracy, and Common Sense:
Restoring America's Promise at Home and Abroad, edited by Alan
Curtis (Rowman Littlefield, 2004); The Hidden Costs of War (Fourth
Freedom Forum, 2003); Axis of Influence: Behind the Bush Administration's
Missile Defense Revival, written with Michelle Ciarrocca (World
Policy Institute, 2002); and And Weapons for All (Harper
Collins, 1994). His articles on the arms trade and the economics
of military spending have appeared in the New York Times,
the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Newsday, USA
Today, the Christian Science Monitor, The Nation, Harper
's Magazine, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Policy, and World Policy Journal. He has been
a featured expert on national security issues on ABC World News
Tonight; Now With Bill Moyers; CBS's 60 Minutes; NBC's Nightly News
and the Today show; the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer; NewsNight with
Aaron Brown and Moneyline with Lou Dobbs on CNN; Hannity &Colmes
and Cavuto on Business on Fox News; BBC World; the Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation; the Australian Broadcast System; TV Asahi (Japan);
MBC Network News (Korea); TV Globo (Brazil); Canal Plus (France);
German public television; National Public Radio; and scores of local
and regional radio stations throughout the United States. In his
spare time, Mr. Hartung is a stand-up comedian, specializing in
political humor. He has performed at Stand-Up NY, the Comic Strip,
and Café Underground, as well as at receptions and annual
gatherings of progressive organizations like Peace Action, the Friends
Committee on National Legislation, and the Women 's International
League for Peace and Freedom.
Kathleen
Hunt is the UN representative for CARE International, where
she advocates for humanitarian and human rights principles in the
decisions of the U.N. Security Council and other agencies, and reflects
the work of some 12,000 CARE International employees in more than
65 countries. During the last year she has briefed council members
on issues ranging from Afghanistan, Sudan, and Iraq, to the protection
of children affected by armed conflict. She is a founder and co-chair
of the Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict, an independent
monitoring and advocacy network, and also serves on the advisory
committee of the Children's Rights Division of Human Rights Watch.
During the last year, she has appeared in reports by CNN, BBC, ABC,
Reuters, Associated Press, and Agence France Presse on topics including
Afghanistan, Iraq, HIV/AIDS, and children and armed conflict. Prior
to joining CARE International in 2000, Kate worked as a foreign
correspondent for National Public Radio, the New York Times Magazine,
and the New Yorker on assignments in more than 25 countries.
She also worked as a consultant on forced migration and human rights
for the Open Society Institute, Human Rights Watch and UNICEF. Her
work has formed the basis of two award-winning television segments,
"Babies for Sale" (60 Minutes) and "Unwanted Children
of Russia" (20/20).
A
Senior Fellow at the World Policy Institute since 1993 Mira Kamdar
served as acting director of the World Policy Institute from
1996 to 1997 and is a member of the Worl d Policy Journal
editorial board. She received her PhD and MA degrees from the University
of California at Berkeley and her BA from Reed College. Her work
has appeared in publications around the world, including the International
Herald Tribune, the Times of India, the Los Angeles Times, World
Policy Journal, the Connecticut Journal of International Law,
and Tehelka. She has provided expert commentary on India
for CNN International news, TV Ontario, the BBC, and KPFK Radio.
Her book Motiba's Tattoos, a historical memoir about the
Indian diaspora in the twentieth century (Public Affairs, 2000;
Plume, 2001; Public Affairs Ltd., 2002) was a 2000 Barnes &
Noble "Discover Great New Writers" selection and won the
2002 Washington State Book Award. She is a member of the Pacific
Council on International Policy. Her current work focuses on issues
relating to the Indian diaspora; on citizenship and security in
a transnational, post-9/11 world; and on the growing divide between
competing visions of democracy in the twenty-first century.mirakamdar@aol.com
Peter
B. Kaufman
is the founder and president of Intelligent Television. He has been
a World Policy Institute Senior Fellow in media and international
affairs for 12 years, and serves as a member of the Editorial Board
of the World Policy Journal . Prior to Intelligent Television,
Kaufman served as founder and president of TV Books, where he developed
and concluded publishing deals with television networks and independent
television producers, literary agents, and authors around the world.
After he sold majority interest in TV Books to Broadway Video, Lorne
Michaels's television and film company, Mr. Kaufman served as Director
of Strategic Initiatives at Innodata Corporation, the world's largest
provider of digital asset services and XML solutions. He also has
served as founder and executive director of PUBWATCH, a nonprofit
organization supporting book industries in Eastern Europe, and director
of publications at the Institute for EastWest Studies. Educated
at Cornell University and the Columbia University's W. Averell Harriman
Institute for Advanced Study of the Soviet Union, he has written
for Publishers Weekly , Scholarly Publishing ,
Slavic Review , Russian History , The New
York Times , The Nation , The Times Literary Supplement,
and International Book Publishing: An Encyclopedia .
Nina
L. Khrushcheva's
book Visiting Nabokov, which discusses a vital connection
between Russian culture and Russian politics, is forthcoming from
Yale University Press. In the last year Dr. Khrushcheva has given
a number of presentations on Russian and American politics and the
media at various international organizations in the United States
and abroad, such as the University of Strasbourg, the Council on
Foreign Relations, the Ukrainian Rada (parliament), and others.
Khrushcheva has written and published a number of articles in various
international publications, including the International Herald
Tribune and the Wall Street Journal. In the last year
she has commented on Russian and Ukranian political developments
for MSNBC, NBC, ABC, the History Channel, Newsweek Radio, NPR, BBC,
Democracy Now and other broadcast media, and is currently doing
research for a book on the culture of Stalinism. She is directing
a WPI project entitled New Post-Transition Russian Identity, sponsored
by the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Maria Figueroa Küpçü, Co-Director of the Privatization of Foreign Policy Project, specializes in strategic market research and the development of international political and corporate advocacy campaigns. As a Senior Director at the consulting firm Penn, Schoen & Berland Associates she advised candidates in the U.S., Ukraine, South Korea, Serbia, and Zimbabwe as well as executives of multi-national corporations. From 1998-2000 she was Assistant Director at the Council on Foreign Relations, one of the leading foreign policy think thanks in the U.S. Previously, she worked as a poverty and development analyst for the United Nations in New York and in Turkey including positions with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the United Nations Center for Human Settlements (UNCHS) . In 1995, she co-founded the international advocacy network —Youth for Habitat II‚ and was a principle organizer of the involvement of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in UN policy making on social development issues. Ms. Figueroa Küpçü holds a Bachelor's degree in International Relations from Tufts University and a Master in Public Policy in International Trade and Finance from the JFK School of Government at Harvard University.
Jeffrey
Madrick is editor of Challenge magazine, distinguished
visiting professor of humanities at Cooper Union, and director of
policy research at Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis
at The New School. He contributes regularly to the New York Review
of Books, and in the last year alone has also written for the
New York Times (where he was a regular columnist), The
Nation, the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times and Salon.com.
Mr. Madrick was a Shorenstein Fellow at Harvard University in 2001–2002.
He has made appearances on the News Hour with Jim Lehrer, the Charlie
Rose Show, Now with Bill Moyers, Frontline and various TV and radio
programs, including frequent appearances on NPR. His latest book
is Why Economies Grow (Basic Books). He is currently at work
on a history of the US economy since 1970 to be published by Alfred
Knopf. Two of his books, The End of Affluence (1995) and
Taking America (1987) were New York Times Notable
Books of the Year, and the latter was chosen as one of Business
Week's Ten Best Books of the Year. He is a regular advisor and
consultant to several Senators and Congressmen.
Armando
Martínez Bravo
is a
WPI project leader and was program director of the World Policy
Institute's Program on Emerging Powers, which focused on the new
and expanding influence that Brazil, India, and South Africa are
assuming in the evolving international system. In Emerging Powers:
The New World Order and What We Make of It, he argues that the
United States should build new coalitions with emerging powers around
a number of global policy issues, including the environment, trade,
financial flows, and information technology, while not forgetting
about the special needs of emerging powers, including debt forgiveness,
multilateral assistance, and regional security. Mr. Martínez
is currently editing a collection of essays by Brazilian, Indian,
and South African scholars on a number of global policy issues,
to be published in the fall of 2005. Previously he led the institute's
study on the cultural and political implications of the Internet,
and coauthored "Comment on the Zapatista Netwar" for the
edited volume In Athena's Camp: Preparing for Conflict in the
Information Age (1998)and also for The National Security
of Mexico and the United States: A Moment of Transition (published
in Spanish). His latest piece, "Is God Really Brazilian?"
explores the conditions and constraints for Brazil's emergence as
a great power. Mr. Martínez was formerly the regional director
for the West and Southwest regions at Hispanics in Philanthropy.
As regional director, he managed four sites —Northern and Southern
California, Colorado, and New Mexico —of the Funders' Collaborative
for Strong Latino Communities. He has held positions at various
research and international organizations, including the Ford Foundation's
Latin America and Caribbean Regional and Human Rights and International
Cooperation Programs, the International Policy Division of the RAND
Corporation, the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy
at UC–Berkeley, and the Center for Iberian and Latin American
Studies at UC–San Diego. He holds a master's in international
affairs, with a management specialization in Asia and Latin America,
from the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific
Studies at UC–San Diego and a BA in Latin American studies
and the history of art from UC–Berkeley. Mr. Martínez
was elected to term membership of the Council of Foreign Relations
from 1995 to 2000. He has provided political commentaries for print,
television, and radio, most recently on CNN International, CNN en
Español, TV Globo Brasíl, Radio Nacional de España,
and La Vanguardia Dossier.
James
N. Nolt has
been a senior fellow for ten years. He specializes in international
business and political economy, security issues, and US–East
Asia relations. Dr. Nolt is currently coauthoring a book under contract
with Routledge Press entitled International Political Economy:
The Business of War and Peace. He has written articles recently
on Chinese military power, China's entry into the World Trade Organization,
and economic liberalization in Asia. He is a regular reviewer for
Publishers Weekly magazine. He has appeared on CBS News,
CNN World News Asia, WebFN, the syndicated PBS program Asian America,
and at conferences in East Asia. He has been interviewed on numerous
radio programs, including Newsweek on Air, and across Canada on
the CBC radio network.
Silvana
Paternostro
is a journalist
who has written extensively on Cuba and Central and South America.
She specializes in women's issues and has also written extensively
about AIDS, revolutionary movements, and the intersection of literature,
music, and other cultural forms with politics and economics. She
is the author of In the Land of God and Man: Confronting Our
Sexual Culture, which explores gender roles and the effect
of government and religion on women's lives in Latin America and
was short-listed for the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction.
Her exposé of "re-virginization" centers in the United States
appeared the book Se Habla Espanol: Voces Latinas en USA,
the first anthology of new Latino voices in the United States published
in Spanish. She is a contributing editor of Bomb magazine,
a New York's cultural magazine focusing on interviews between artists,
writers, actors, directors, and musicians; and a frequent contributor
to the New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, the
Paris Review, the New Republic, and numerous other
publications. Her work is frequently translated and reprinted in
Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian. In 1999 she was selected by Time/CNN
as one of fifty Latin American Leaders for the New Millennium. Currently
she is at work on her second book, My Colombian War: A Journey
through the Country I Left Behind, which mixes memoir with
history and reportage to tell the story of Colombia's forty-year-old
civil war and uncover the truth about U.S involvement in the country.
It will be published by Henry Holt in 2005.
Swadesh M. Rana. Prior to joining WPI as a project leader, Swadesh M. Rana was chief of the Conventional Arms Branch at the United Nations, the first woman to hold that position. She was a senior political analyst in the Executive Office of Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, was chosen as the senior political aide to the chief of civil administration for UNPROFOR in Yugoslavia, and directed the first United Nations project on small arms and intrastate conflicts. For her role in the design and successful implementation of the Gramsh Pilot Project (GPP), the UN's first undertaking to offer community developmental incentives for retrieving weapons from civil society, she was honored by the President of Albania. Since joining the WPI, she has provided consultancy services for the Permanent Missions of Germany and Switzerland to the United Nations, the Office of the President of Argentina, and the Foreign Office of Kenya. In July 2003 she served as advisor to the chairman of the first review conference on the implementation of the UN's program of action on illicit arms traffic. She was chairperson of the concluding session of the fourth Asian Security Conference in New Delhi that was attended by representatives of thirty countries. She was a consultant to the PBS Frontline project "Eastern Europe and Illicit Arms Traffic"; was a regular commentator for Zee TV, a major Indian channel, on the live and later coverage of 9/11 and U.S military action in Afghanistan; spoke on the Voice of America on the Security Council and U.S action in Iraq; and appeared on the Indian TV outlet Bharatvani to discuss U.S problems in post-Saddam Iraq. Her debut novel, Kotheywali, is currently being serialized on Abhivyakti, a prestigious Web magazine for classics in Hindi literature. In February 2004 she won a Golden Star award in international poetry for her poem in Hindustani which uses Urdu, the official language of Pakistan, in the script of Hindi, the official language of India. Swadesh was a Gold Medalist in earning her master's degree in political science from the University of Punjab in Chandigarh and her PhD in international affairs from Jawaharlal University in New Delhi. She has received over 50 national and international awards for academic excellence and professional distinction. Strategic stability and nuclear deterrence in South Asia are her current interests.
Andrew
Reding,
a graduate of Middlebury College and Princeton University's Woodrow
Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, consults on human
rights, democracy, and international affairs for the federal government,
the media, and a public policy research center. He has an appointment
as International Affairs Expert with the Department of Justice in
Washington, and directs the Institute's Project for Global democracy
and Human Rights. Reding's policy articles and reports have appeared
in numerous periodicals in the U.S. and abroad, including World
Policy Journal, Washington Quarterly, New York Times Magazine,
Worldbusiness, New Perspectives Quarterly, Texas Observer, Mother
Jones, The Nation,, and, in Mexico, Proceso, Mira, and
Este País. His commentaries have appeared in the New
York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Wall Street
Journal, Miami Herald, Newsday, Journal of Commerce, and dozens
of regional newspapers, as well as the Globe and Mail, National
Post, Ottawa Citizen, Toronto Star, and Montreal Gazette
in Canada, and Reforma, El Norte, Excelsior, and El Financiero
in Mexico. He has been an expert witness before House and Senate
committees, and served as a motion picture consultant to Warner
Brothers and documentary consultant to the CBC. He is involved in
public policy at the local level, having recently completed a four-year
term as city council member in Sanibel, Florida.
David
Rieff is
an American writer and policy analyst. He has served as a consultant
for several humanitarian organizations and written widely on topics
ranging from war, human rights, and humanitarian assistance to Africa,
to third world immigration to the United States and cultural issues.
He covered the Bosnian war, spending extended periods of time in
Sarajevo during the seige, and the Rwandan genocide. He is the author
of five books, including Los Angeles: Capital of the Third World
and Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and the Failure of the West.
He is also the coeditor (with Roy Gutman) of War Crimes: What
the Public Should Know, a primer on international humanitarian
law, and A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis, published
by Simon & Schuster in October 2002. He is a contributing editor
to the New Republic, and his work has appeared in many
journals and newspapers in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Spain,
France, and Germany, including the New Yorker, the New
York Times, the New York Times Magazine, the Washington
Post, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Review
of Books, the Nation, the National Post (Canada),
the Times Literary Supplement(London), Le Monde
(Paris), and El PaĂs (Madrid).
Sherle
Schwenninger
was the founder of World Policy Journal, and served as its
editor from 1983 to 1991 and as director of the World Policy Institute
and its European programs from 1992 to 1996. Prior to that he was
director of the institute's policy studies program and its transnational
academic program.More recently he served as a senior program coordinator
for the Project on Development,Trade,and International Finance at
the Council on Foreign Relations, and he is the author, with Walter
Mead, of A Financial Architecture for Middle-Class-Oriented Development.
He contributes regularly to The Nation magazine. Mr. Schwenninger
is currently working on a two-year study of American foreign policy
after 9/11.
Kim
Taipale, BA,
JD (New York University), and MA, EdM, LLM (Columbia University),
is the founder and executive director of the Center for Advanced
Studies in Science and Technology Policy (http://advancedstudies.org)
- a private non-partisan research and advisory organization focused
on information, technology, and national security policy - and is
a senior fellow at the World Policy Institute where he directs the
Global Information Society Project
Masaru
Tamamoto
writes on Japanese national identity and international relations.
He is currently the editor of an English-language print and electronic
publication of the Japan Institute for International Affairs. He
resides in Yokohama, Japan. He has taught at American University
(Washington DC)and Ritsumeikan University (Kyoto), and has received
fellowships from Princeton, Harvard, and Tokyo Universities. Tamamoto
holds a PhD from Johns Hopkins University. He received his BA from
Brown University.
Martin
Walker is
the Editor of United Press International's English-language operations.
He is the coauthor of Europe in the 21st Century, written
during a fellowship at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for
Scholars in Washington, DC. In twenty-five years as a journalist
with Britain's Guardian newspaper, he served as bureau
chief in Moscow and the United States and as European editor and
assistant editor. He was awarded Britain's Reporter of the Year
prize in 1987. He is also a regular commentator on the BBC, National
Public Radio, and CNN; and a guest panelist on Inside Washington
for CBS-TV, Capital Gang Sunday for CNN, and White
House Chronicle on PBS. He scripted and narrated the BBC series
Martin Walker's Russia, and the BBC Analysis special
—Clintonomics.‚ He also gives a weekly analysis of the world's press
for NPR's On the Media. Mr. Walker is a contributing editor
to the Los Angeles Times opinion section and to Europe
magazine. He has written for the New York Times, the Washington
Post, Foreign Policy, the New Yorker, the
New Republic, the Times Literary Supplement, the
Spectator, Die Zeit of Germany, El
Mundo of Spain, and the Moscow Times and Moskovskii
Novosti. He is also a contributing editor to Demokratisatsiya,
the journal of post-Soviet reform, and a columnist for theglobalist.com.
Mr. Walker has served as vice chairman of the advisory board of
the European Institute of Washington, DC. He is a member of the
review board of International Affairs, the journal of Chatham
House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London. A
guest lecturer at the University of Moscow, Columbia University,
UCLA, the University of Toronto, New York University, and the University
of Pittsburgh, Mr. Walker is also a senior fellow with A.T. Kearney's
Global Business Policy Council and a member of Czech President Vaclav
Havel's Forum 2000 group. Lissa
Ree Weinmann,WPI
senior fellow, is a writer and communications/political consultant
with a diverse portfolio of national and international public affairs
work. Ms. Weinmann directs the Cuba Project at the World Policy
Institute, where she coordinates a national educational program
on how US policy toward Cuba impacts US national interests as well
as Cuba itself. She organized the first National Summit on Cuba
in 2002 and its follow-up, the Florida Summit on Cuba, in 2003.
The summits bring together viewpoints from across the country —with
a special emphasis on the Cuban-American community —to discuss
the creation of a Cuba policy that can better address US national
security and the needs of Cubans and Americans alike. Ms. Weinmann
is executive director, founder, and member of the board of directors
of the first national coalition of prominent Americans working to
normalize food and medical trade with Cuba: Americans for Humanitarian
Trade with Cuba, formed in January 1998. Before focusing on Cuba,
she was vice president of one of the top crisis communications firms
in the United States, Abernathy MacGregor Inc., New York, where
she specialized in developing public affairs campaigns requiring
grassroots mobilization efforts and the coordination of Republican
and Democratic forces. She has worked in Venezuela, Mexico, Peru,
and Colombia as a journalist, photographer, and media and political
consultant. She earned a BS in journalism at the Newhouse School
at Syracuse University and a master of international affairs from
the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.
She is currently working on a book about US-Cuba relations.
Alan
Wolfe is
professor of political science and director of the Boisi Center
for Religion and American Public Life at Boston College. His most
recent books include Return to Greatness: How America Lost Its
Sense of Purpose and What It Needs to Do to Recover It (2005),
The Transformation of American Religion: How We Actually Practice
Our Faith (2003), and An Intellectual in Public (2003).
He is the author or editor of more than ten other books, including
Marginalized in the Middle (1997), One Nation, After All
(1998), Moral Freedom: The Search for Virtue in a World of Choice
(2001), and School Choice: The Moral Debate (editor,2002).
Both One Nation, After All and Moral Freedom were
selected as New York Times Notable Books of the Year. A contributing
editor of the New Republic and The Wilson Quarterly,
Professor Wolfe writes often for those publications as well as for
Commonweal, the New York Times, Harper's, the Atlantic Monthly,
the Washington Post, and other magazines and newspapers. He
served as an advisor to President Clinton in preparation for his
1995 State of the Union address and has lectured widely at American
and European universities. Professor Wolfe has been the recipient
of grants from the Russell Sage Foundation, the Templeton Foundation,
and the Lilly Endowment. Under the auspices of the US State Department,
he has twice conducted programs that bring Muslim scholars to the
United States to learn about separation of church and state. He
is also listed in Who's Who in the World, Who's Who in America,
and Contemporary Authors.
Michele
Wucker is
co-director of WPI's Immigrant
Voting Project and a project director of WPI's Citizenship
and Security Program. She is the author of Why
The Cocks Fight: Dominicans, Haitians and the Struggle For Hispaniola
(FSG/Hill & Wang, 1999). She is working on a new book, LOCKOUT:
How American Paranoia Is Driving Away the World's Best and Brightest
and Threatening the U.S. and Global Economies, to be published
by Public Affairs in 2006. Ms. Wucker lectures frequently about
immigration, cross-cultural conflict and conciliation, and Caribbean
politics. Formerly Latin America bureau chief for International
Financing Review, she has written for many U.S. and Latin American
publications including The American Prospect, America
Economia, Newsday, The New York Times Book Review, Valor Economico,
The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal,and World
Policy Journal. Ms. Wucker has been a source for major U.S.
and international media including The New York Times, The Boston
Globe, Reuters, CNN, CNBC, National Public Radio and Public
Radio International. She is a graduate of Rice University
and of Columbia University's School of International and Public
Affairs.
RESEARCHERS Frida Berrigan is a senior research associate at the World Policy Institute's Arms Trade Resource Center. A graduate of Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, Ms. Berrigan served as director of a Central America solidarity organization in Baltimore for two years. Before joining the World Policy Institute in early 1999, she spent six months as an editorial intern at The Nation magazine. Her primary research areas with the project include nuclear weapons policy, war profiteering and corporate crimes, weapons sales to areas of conflict, and military training programs. She is the author of institute issue briefs, including Indonesia at the Crossroads: US Weapons Sales and Military Training and Beyond the School of the Americas: US Military Training Here and Abroad. Ms. Berrigan's primary responsibilities with the project currently involve coordinating outreach to the media, government policy makers,and nongovernmental organizations. Toward that end, she serves as the editor of the project's highly regarded e-mail newsletter, ATRC Update, which goes out roughly twice a month to hundreds of key activists, journalists, and policy makers, many of whom pass it on to their own extensive lists. She is also responsible for organizing and updating the project's media lists and cultivating new media contacts. In addition, she serves as a principal spokesperson for the project in the media and in various public forums, supplementing the work of Project Director William D. Hartung on these fronts. Since joining the project, she has published articles in The Nation, In These Times, the Providence Journal, the Hartford Courant, the Duluth News Tribune,the Baltimore Sun, the Nonviolent Activist, and Peaceworks. Michelle Ciarrocca is a senior research associate with the institute's Arms Trade Resource Center. She has a bachelor's degree in liberal arts from The New School, with concentrations in international studies and anthropology. She started at the institute as a research intern in the summer of 1998 and joined the center in the fall of that year. Ms. Ciarrocca's primary responsibilities with the project include designing and updating the project's website and serving as the principal researcher on reports and articles dealing with the missile defense and nuclear weapons lobbies. She is the coauthor of a number of institute research reports, including Post-9/11 Economic Windfalls for Arms Manufacturers and Axis of Influence: Behind the Bush Administration's Missile Defense Revival. During her seven years with the project, Ms. Ciarrocca has become an accomplished writer of magazine articles, op-ed pieces, and letters to the editor, authoring or coauthoring pieces that have appeared in the Boston Globe, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Arizona Republic, the New Jersey Herald, and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. She has also placed numerous opinion articles with CommonDreams.org and the Global Beat Syndicate. She has authored or coauthored major magazine articles on the missile defense issue that have appeared in The Nation, Multinational Monitor, and Extra!, published by Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR).
John Loggia, as project director of the Cuba Project at the World Policy Institute, coordinates the National Summit on Cuba conferences, and develops panel discussions and research projects working in close contact with other Latin American specialists. He also produces educational materials that include webcast documentary videos of US leaders speaking about Cuba. He is webmaster for the project and various affiliated pages. He is also currently producing/ directing a documentary film focusing on the historical relationship between the United States and Cuba. He began his career working on independent films as a set and production designer apprenticing with well-known production designer Santo Loquasto. He has worked with directors such as Brian De Palma (Home Movies), Beth B (Vortex), Tobe Hooper (The Dress), Ulu Grossbard (Falling in Love), and Larry Cohen (Q). Mr. Loggia was production designer on the seminal independent film Parting Glances directed by Bill Sherwood. In 1996 he wrote, produced, and directed the feature film Live Free and Die (Fox/ Lorber films). He has a BA from Sarah Lawrence College and speaks French. |
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