Joanne J. Myers

Former Director, Public Affairs Program, Carnegie Council

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.

Featured Work

The Gamble: General Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008

FEB 20, 2009 Podcast

The Gamble: General Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008

What's next for Iraq? Thomas Ricks predicts that the U.S. military presence there will continue for at least another five to ten years, and ...

image of book cover - Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century

FEB 11, 2009 Podcast

Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century

Once the stuff of science fiction, robotics are already changing the way wars are being fought, says P.W. Singer. How will they affect the ...

FEB 9, 2009 Podcast

The Cuba Wars: Fidel Castro, the United States and the Next Revolution

As Castro finally leaves the stage and a new president arrives in Washington, both the Cuban system and U.S.-Cuba relations could be on ...

The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century

FEB 4, 2009 Podcast

The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century

George Friedman, founder and CEO of Strategic Forecasting, Inc., asks: What's in store during this new century? Which nations will gain and lose power? How ...

JAN 27, 2009 Podcast

Lessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam

For Bundy, the ultimate actor in Vietnam was not the military, the secretary of state or of defense, or the national security advisor. It was ...

JAN 27, 2009 Podcast

The Crisis of American Foreign Policy: Wilsonianism in the Twenty-First Century

Was George W. Bush the true heir of Woodrow Wilson, the architect of liberal internationalism? Was the Iraq War a result of liberal ideas about ...

JAN 13, 2009 Podcast

Andrew Carnegie

Biographer David Nasaw tells the fascinating story of Andrew Carnegie's efforts to stop World War I, and how his failure broke his heart.

DEC 22, 2008 Podcast

A Conversation on NATO

The post-Cold War NATO has expanded, both in mission and membership. In each instance, problems have arisen with Russia. What are the lessons to be ...

Network Power: The Social Dynamics of Globalization

DEC 12, 2008 Podcast

Network Power: The Social Dynamics of Globalization

How can we understand the dynamics of globalization? Author David Singh Grewal explains that the idea of network power supplies a coherent set of terms ...

DEC 11, 2008 Podcast

Creative Capitalism: A Conversation with Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, and other Economic Leaders

Michael Kinsley and William Easterly discuss Bill Gates's controversial proposal for "creative capitalism," in which big corporations integrate doing good into their way of doing ...