EVENT: Immigration and Security: European Challenges and International Perspectives
Berlin, March 23-25, 2006
Institut für Internationale Pädagogik und Didaktik Professor Rabeya Mueller, Citizenship & Security Working Group Leader Mira Kamdar, and American Academy Visiting Fellow Claudia Koonz discuss "Religion: Building Bridges or Barriers?" in Berlin March 25, 2006 CLICK HERE FOR MORE IMAGES
NEW BOOKS

 As fears caused by globalization and terrorism increase pressure to close America's doors, Citizenship & Security executive director Michele Wucker argues in Lockout that to do so would be catastrophic. (May 2006) Click on the book cover for more details.

A Nation by Design : Immigration Policy in the Fashioning of America

In A Nation by Design, Citizenship & Security Advisory Board member Aristide Zolberg explores American immigration policy from the colonial period to the present, discussing how it has been used as a tool of nation building. (April 2006) Click on the book cover for more details.
At a time of unprecedented turmoil in the transatlantic relationship, as America asserts its right to act unilaterally to defend itself against terrorism and Europeans are increasingly aggressive in promoting a multilateralist approach to security issues, this book examines the post-9/11 and Iraqi war security environment, especially the impact on NATO and transatlantic relations as the European Union seeks to build a unified foreign and defence policy that will enable Europeans to play a fuller role in the international system. European Security and Transatlantic Relations after 9/11 and the Iraq War: A Fork in the Road, co-edited by Program on Citizenship & Security Working Group Leader Ian Cuthbertson, addresses these issues. (Summer 2005) Click on the book cover for details.

The Program on Citizenship & Security addresses the ways in which democratic societies are managing the intersection of policies related to security and to the treatment of minorities and immigrants in the post-9/11 world. It networks policymakers, experts and advocates working on both immigration and security, with a particular focus on involving representatives of the private sector in the discussion on evolving priorities in these critical policy areas. Our work is interdisciplinary and comparative, with an initial focus on Germany, France, India and the U.S. In the wake of the tragic bombings in Madrid, London and New Delhi and ethnically tinged riots in France and Australia, these issues have taken on added urgency, and the need for international collaboration in a search for solutions has become more important than ever. The Program provides a unique international forum to spur cross-border discussion of these issues.

Through four working groups covering major thematic areas in which international and interdisciplinary work can best influence policy, the program will compare and contrast the strengths and weaknesses of existing policies in the liberal democracies within the purview of the program. Working in consultation with our international advisory board members and with our institutional partners abroad, program participants develop concrete proposals to harmonize immigration/integration and security policies, with a focus on the role the private sector must play for these to be successful.

The Program on Citizenship & Security and its sister programs, The Immigrant Voting Project (www.immigrantvoting.org) and the Counterterrorism Project, are located at the World Policy Institute (www.worldpolicy.org), part of The New School (www.newschool.edu) in New York.