Program on Citizenship & Security In the News
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Ian Cuthbertson was interviewed by about Muslims in Britain on National Public Radio's "To the Point" on August 16, 2006.
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Ian Cuthbertson was interviewed about the London Airport on August 10, 2006 in the following media: Fox News and WABC News (television) and the following radio stations: Bloomberg Radio (250 Affiliated Stations); KLIF Dallas; WTAM Cleveland; WREC Memphis; KFGO Fargo ND; WILM Wilmington DE; WIST New Orleans; KCMO Kansas City; WFLA Tampa; WOC Davenport IA; WOAI San Antonio
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A Nation by Design: Immigration Policy in the Fashioning of America, the new book by Aristide Zolberg, Citizenship & Security Advisory Board member, was published in April 2006 by Harvard University Press.
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Michele Wucker's new book, Lockout: Why America Keeps Getting Immigration Wrong When Our Prosperity Depends on Getting It Right, was be published May 8, 2006 by PublicAffairs Press
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The Program on Citizenship & Security and Breakthrough hosted a book event April 17, 2006 featuring the critically acclaimed author Marina Budhos and her moving and timely new novel Ask Me No Questions (Ginee Seo Books/Atheneum/Simon & Schuster) inspired by events stemming from the U.S. government crackdown on illegal immigrants in the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Check the events page for details.
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Michele Wucker will moderate a World Policy instiute panel discussion, "Fortress America's Barriers to Global Talent," on April 6, 2006 from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Check the events page for details.
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In partnership with the Heinrich Boll Foundation and German Council oon Foreign Relations (DGAP), the Program on Citizenship & Security will host the conference, "Immigration and Security: European Challenges and International Perspectives," in Berlin, March 23-25. The conference -- conceived as a small semi-public workshop of invited experts -- will focus on aspects of migration and national security that are most pertinent to Europe, though it will inclue panels that draw on the experiences of the other regions and will include Indian and U.S. guests. Participants will include scholars, representativesof the government and private sector, policy makers and activists. For more information about the conference, e-mail citizenshipsecurity@newschool.edu.
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Internationale Politik, the journal of the Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Auswaertige Politik. has published an edition (in German) of Migration and Security in conjunction with the Program on Citizenship & Security's upcoming conference in Berlin. The edition, with some of the articles accessible in PDF format, can be found at http://www.internationalepolitik.de.
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Ian Cuthbertson moderated a World Policy Institute panel discussion, "Old Europe vs. New Europe," February 23, 2006, with Dr. Nicole Lindstrom, Visiting Professor, MA in International Relations Program at the New School and Professor of International Relations Department at Central European University; and Michael Meyer, European Editor, Newsweek International.
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The World Policy Institute hosted Program on Citizenship &
Security Advisory Board Member Jocelyne Cesari for a presentation on the new
paperback edition of her book, When
Islam and Democracy Meet: Muslims in Europe and in the United States
at The New School in New York City, January 24, 2006. International Center
for Migration, Ethnicity and Citizenship Director Aristide Zolberg introduced
the talk and Mira Kamdar moderated the discussion.
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Belinda Cooper spent a week in Portland, Oregon, in January, where she gave a talk on the situation at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to a lawyers' group on January 17 and to a local Jewish congregation on January 19.
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Ron Hayduk, co-director of Citizenship & Security Partner, The Immigrant Voting Project, published his new book, Democracy for All: Restoring Immigrant Voting Rights in the United States. Democracy for All examines the politics and practices of noncitizen voting in the United States, chronicling the rise and fall-- and re-emergence -- of immingrant voting in the U.S. In addition to making the case for noncitizen voting, this book takes a close look at the politics of and actors in recent campaigns that successfully re-established noncitizen voting, others that failed, and ones that are currently underway.
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Belinda Cooper chaired a Harvard Center for European Studies panel discussion in Berlin on "The Current and Future Role of the Extreme Right in Germany."
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Michele Wucker testified in front of the Government Operations Committee of the New York City Council, November 14, 2005, in favor of the Voting Rights Restoration Act, Prop. 628, which would extend municipal voting rights to legally present noncitizens. A copy of her testimony is available at www.immigrantvoting.org.
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Ian Cuthbertson spoke on "Meeting the Challenge of Effectively Combating Terrorism in a Multi-Cultural Democracy," Austrian Institute for International Relations, November 4, 2005.
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Mira Kamdar (above) moderates "The Future of Secular Europe" panel at The New School November 3, 2005
On November 3, Mira Kamdar hosted "The Future of Secular Europe", a World Policy Institute panel discussion with TALAL ASAD, Professor of Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center and Author of Formations of the Secular; WILLEM MAAS, Faculty Fellow, Center for European Studies, New York University, and author of the book in progress, Creating European Citizens; MARK MAZOWER, Professor of History, Columbia University, Author of Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims, and Jews, 1430-1950. Webcast available at www.dialnsa.edu
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Belinda Cooper spoke to visiting scholars and students at the Harvard Center for European Studies on changing Turkish attitudes toward the Armenian genocide in the context of EU accession and the development of Turkish civil society, Cambridge, November 1, 2005.
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Ian Cuthbertson participated in "Pragmatic Realism. Russian Foreign Policy under Putin," Vienna Meets Eastern Europe Panel Discussion, Austrian Institute of International Relations, 21 October, 2005.
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Ian Cuthbertson participated in a panel discussion and press conference chaired by Franz Vranitzky, former Chancellor of Austria on the book. European Security and Transatlantic Relations after 9/11 and the Iraq War, edited by Professor Heinz Gaertner and Ian M. Cuthbertson, Pressclub Concordia, Vienna, 20 October, 2005
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Ian Cuthbertson gave a lecture on "Confronting the Threat Posed by of Religiously Inspired Terrorism: Keeping a Sense of Proportion in the Face of Catastrophe" University of Vienna, 25 October 2005.
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Ian Cuthbertson was interviewed by Moore Parker on FM4 Radio, ORF, Vienna on 18 October 2005
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Ian Cuthbertson was interviewed for a feature article, with photograph, in the Austrian newspaper, Der Standard, 14 October 2005
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Ian Cuthbertson was interviewed by Christop Winder of the Austrian newspaper, Der Standard, 12 October 2005
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Ian Cuthbertson participated in "Between Helping to Prepare for Threats and Exaggerating Dangers: The Role of the Media in the Security Policy" a debate at the Austrian Institute of International Relations, 10 October, 2005
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Ian Cuthbertson spoke on "Confronting the Threat of Nuclear, Biological. Chemical and Radiological (NBCR) Terrorism," at the US Embassy's symposium on "Energy Security and Strategic Policy: Challenges for the EU and the US" Vienna, 6 October, 2005
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Ian Cuthbertson participated in the Wassenaar Arrangement on Export Controls for Conventional Arms and Dual-Use Technologies International Outreach Seminar to Industry, Permanent Mission of Japan, Vienna, 3 October 2005
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Ian Cuthbertson participated in "Security in an Insecure World" debate during the City of Vienna's "The Long Night of Foreign Policy," at the Austrian Institute of International Relations, 1 October 2005
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Michele Wucker spoke on U.S. national security policy involving noncitizens at the conference "Security Dilemmas and Options for National Immigration Policies," coordinated by the Center for International Relations, Collegium Civitas, the German Marshall Fund, Fundaczya Club Obywatelski, and the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, in Warsaw, September 29, 2005. See event photos at http://www.csm.org.pl/pl/files/Dylematy_bezpieczenstwa.pdf. Her comments are online at http://www.csm.org.pl/en/files/raports/2005/rap_i_an_1005a.pdf
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Michele Wucker was quoted in a (New York) City Limits magazine article, "Poll Position: Groups Push for Voting Rights," September 19, 2005.
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Ian Cuthbertson is a City of Vienna Research Fellow on Crisis Management and Conflict Research at the Austrian Institute for International Affairs, Vienna, 17 September-17 November 2005
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Ian Cuthbertson co-edited the new book, European Security and Transatlantic Relations after 9/11 and the Iraq War: A Fork in the Road, published in Summer 2005.
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Michele Wucker spoke about "Fixing a Broken Immigration System" at the Bangor Foreign Policy Forum in Maine on August 1, 2005.
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On August 9, 2005, Ian Cuthbertson was a guest for a 30-minute discussion and call-in segment during the 'Under the Learning Tree' show on the UK's proposed new counter-terrorism measures on WBAI, Pacifica Radio's New York station.
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Ian Cuthbertson was quoted in The Christian Science Monitor June 29, 2005. "Europe, US clash over terror war"
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Mira Kamdar participated in the joint bilateral task force of the Pacific Council and the Observer Research Foundation, led by Ambassador Richard Celeste and Ambassador Abid Hussain with core participation by Ashley Tellis, Rafiq Dossani, Ian Lesser, Dan Sneider and Kamdar. The task force released the first bilateral report of its kind, "India-US Relations: A Vision for the Future," in June 2005. Copies are available on the Pacific Council's website at www.pacificcouncil.org.
