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Reducing timber loss through responsible management of the world’s forest stock has the power to reduce poverty, conflict, and greenhouse gases. This policy paper details efforts to date and provides comprehensive proposals for much needed action.
In Every Nation for Itself: Winners and Losers in a G-Zero World, World Policy Institute Senior Fellow Ian Bremmer illustrates a historic shift in the international system and the world economy—and an unprecedented moment of global uncertainty.
Eric Alterman
Senior Fellow
Expertise: American foreign policy; media criticism
Eric Alterman is a Distinguished Professor of English, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, and Professor of Journalism at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. He is also “The Liberal Media” columnist for The Nation, a senior fellow and “Altercation” weblogger for Media Matters for America, (formerly at MSNBC.com) in Washington, DC, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress in Washington, DC, where he writes and edits the “Think Again” column, and a history consultant to HBO Films.
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, Alterman is a frequent lecturer and contributor to numerous publications in the US, Europe and Latin America.
In the past Dr. Alterman wrote for MSNBC.com and IntellectualCapital.com; formerly Adjunct Professor of Media History, New York University; Visiting Professor of Media History and Media Studies, Hofstra University (Fall, 1997); Contributing Writer, Mother Jones (1993-97); Contributing Writer, ELLE (1993-97); Columnist, The Sunday Express (London) (1996); Contributing Editor, Rolling Stone (1995-96); Junior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (1983). Media appearances for The Tonight Show, The Today Show, Nightline, The Charlie Rose Show, Crossfire, Booknotes, Journalist Roundtable, Media Week, All Things Considered, Fresh Air, On the Media, MSNBC, BBC and CBC Television.
Education:
Ph.D. in American History, Stanford University
M.A. in International Relations, Yale University
B.A. in History and Government, Cornell University
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