WPI - Arms Trade Resource Center: Economics of Security Study Group - November 19, 2004

The End of the Free Market

WPI Senior Fellow Ian Bremmer recounts the battle between state capitalism and the free market. Detailing the rise of state-owned firms in China, Russia, the Arab states of the Persian Gulf, Iran, Venezuela, and elsewhere, he demonstrates the growing challenge that state capitalism will pose for the entire global economy.

WPI - Arms Trade Resource Center: Economics of Security Study Group - November 19, 2004

ARMS TRADE RESOURCE CENTER

Dear Friends,

We know that all of you are still trying to digest the streams of information coming out of the election. We interrupt this reverie to announce the details of the next meeting of the Economics of Security in the Post 9-11 World Study Group.

We are delighted to welcome Winslow Wheeler to discuss his new book, "THE WASTRELS OF DEFENSE: How Congress Sabotages U. S. Security" (Naval Institute Press, 2004). Mr. Wheeler is a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Center for Defense Information in Washington who spent 30 years working on Capital Hill, on the staffs of both Democratic and Republican Senators, and for the General Accounting Office.

He was recently on 60 Minutes (October 31, 2004), commenting on equipment deficiencies for US military personnel in Iraq. We will be sending selections from his writing along with the next email

Please join us.

WHERE: Room 720, 66 Fifth Avenue (betweem 12th and 13th)

WHEN: FRIDAY, November 19, 2004, 2:30 TO 4 P.M.
(coffee and tea available starting at 2 p.m.)

RSVP TO: Frida Berrigan, berrigaf@newschool.edu

Co-sponsored by: The Graduate Program in International Affairs (GPIA) and the World Policy Institute at New School University (NSU)

Convenors: David Gold, Master's Program in International Affairs, New School University and Bill Hartung, Arms Trade Resource Center, World Policy Institute

Schedule for 2004/2005 Study Group Session:

**December 10, 2004, 66 Fifth Ave., Room 720
Mia Bloom from the University of Cincinnati, whose book, "DYING TO KILL: The Global Phenomenon of Suicide Terror," will be published by Columbia University Press in 2005. She will talk about her research.

**January 21, 2005, 66 W 12th; Room 510
Economics of Security co-chairs Bill Hartung and David Gold will speak on the prospects for the defense budget in a second Bush Administration

**February 25, 2005, 66 W 12th; Room 510
Topic to be announced (TBA)

**March 18, 2005, 66 W 12th; Room 510
Topic TBA

**April 22, 2005, 66 W 12th; Room 510
Topic TBA

**May 20, 2005, 66 W 12th; Room 510
Topic TBA