Joanne Myers was director of the Carnegie Council's Public Affairs Programs (formerly Merrill House Programs). She was responsible for planning and organizing more than 50 public programs a year at the Council, many of which have been featured on C-SPAN's Booknotes.
Myers is also a columnist and advisory board member for PassBlue, an independent digital publication that covers the United Nations.
Before joining the Council, she was director of the Consular Corps/Deputy General Counsel at the New York City Commission for the United Nations, Consular Corps and Protocol, where she acted as the liaison between the mayor of New York and the consulates general. Myers holds a JD from Benjamin C. Cardozo School of Law and a BA in international relations from the University of Minnesota.
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JUN 25, 2002 • Transcript
The Fragmentation of Afghanistan: State Formation and Collapse in the International System
Afghanistan is "hard to rule" for the same reason it's hard to conquer: it does not have many resources, the settlements are far apart, and ...
JUN 3, 2002 • Transcript
The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power
The United States has a long but largely uncelebrated history of fighting "small wars," and "if the past is a prologue of what is to ...
MAY 15, 2002 • Transcript
Globalization and Its Discontents
There will be a strong backlash against globalization unless the international institutions that govern it become more democratic, says Stiglitz.
MAY 7, 2002 • Transcript
Unholy War: Terror in the Name of Islam
The communications revolution of the late 20th century made Muslims around the world aware that they were part of a global community, a development that ...
APR 17, 2002 • Transcript
The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity
Christian influence on world events is less likely to originate in the United States or Europe than in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, where a ...
APR 17, 2002 • Transcript
Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam
Today, Islamist movements in the Middle East are fragmented, according to Gilles Kepel, and no longer have the capacity to mobilize different social groups simultaneously ...
APR 15, 2002 • Transcript
Al-Jazeera: How the Free Arab News Network Scooped the World and Changed the Middle East
The Qatar-based television network Al-Jazeera has been a hugely positive force in the Middle East, according to Mohammed el-Nawawy and Adel Iskander Farag, because it ...
APR 11, 2002 • Transcript
A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
Why did the United States largely ignore the Rwandan genocide and yet devote endless time to the contemporaneous Bosnian crisis? According to Samantha Power, the ...
MAR 26, 2002 • Transcript
What Went Wrong? Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response
In this learned talk given just six months after 9/11, Lewis explains that in the Middle East there are two prevailing opinions about why the Islamic ...
MAR 14, 2002 • Transcript
Human Rights and the Campaign Against Terrorism
Governments around the world are wrong to use the war on terrorism as an excuse to disregard human rights principles, says Kenneth Roth. "The war ...