It's a Funny World
With the Taliban going strong and the polar ice caps melting away, we wouldn’t blame you for feeling like there's nothing to laugh about - until now. You may not have thought policy wonks were funny, but we’re about to prove you wrong with a special evening of international stand-up comedy benefiting World Policy Journal
featuring professional comedians and friends of the World Policy Institute:
- Ophira Eisenberg
- WPI Senior Fellow Ian Bremmer
- Kevin Bleyer
- Robert George
- Emcee Christian Finnegan
Monday, September 13
7 -8:30 pm
at COMIX, 343 West 14th Street
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.
World Policy Institute - The Program on Citizenship and Security
PROGRAM ON CITIZENSHIP & SECURITY
Staff
Project Leaders:
Michele Wucker, Senior Fellow and World Policy Institute Executive Director, is the recipient of a 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship for her work on changing views of citizenship, exclusion, and belonging. She is co-founder of WPI's Immigrant Voting Project and of WPI's Citizenship and Security Program, and a research fellow at the Immigration Policy Center. Ms. Wucker lectures frequently about immigration, cross-cultural conflict and conciliation, and Caribbean politics.
Belinda Cooper is a co-founder of the Citizenship and Security Program at the World Policy Institute and an adjunct professor at New York University’s Center for Global Affairs. She is the editor of War Crimes: The Legacy of Nuremberg, which explores the interconnections between the Nuremberg tribunal and today’s international criminal tribunals. Cooper teaches and lectures on human rights and international law, especially as related to the current “war on terror.”
Ian Cuthbertson is the Director of World Policy Institute's Counterterrorism Program and a co-founder of the Citizenship & Security Program. He is a former member of the Diplomatic Service of the United Kingdom, was vice president of Programs at the EastWest Institute in New York, and is a past editorial director and executive vice president of the media publishing company TV Books.
Mira Kamdar has been a Senior Fellow at the World Policy Institute since 1992, and was Acting Director in 1996-97. Mira is a Bernard Schwartz Fellow of the Asia Society for the calendar year 2008, based at the Society's New York headquarters, where her work focuses on issues of equity and sustainability in the context of accelerating globalization and climate change, and on a changing U.S.-Asia relationship.
