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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MAY 4, 2005 • Transcript
At the Point of a Gun: Democratic Dreams and Armed Intervention
David Rieff tries to bridge the gap between our democratic dreams and the means we use to achieve them in tricky wars of humanitarian purpose.
MAY 3, 2005 • Podcast
Sons of the Conquerors: The Rise of the Turkic World
Hugh Pope discusses the past, present, and future of the Turkic world, which stretches from Central Asia to Turkey. His topics include oil, trade, and ...
APR 19, 2005 • Podcast
Return to Greatness: How America Lost Its Sense of Purpose and What It Needs to Do to Recover It
In a candid discussion of American politics and ideals, Alan Wolfe looks to the future and how the U.S. can keep liberty and equality ...
APR 6, 2005 • Podcast
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
Globalization, particularly outsourcing, is leveling the playing field around the world, says columnist Thomas Friedman, making India a major player.
MAR 30, 2005 • Podcast
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time
In this 2005 talk, Jeffrey Sachs, director of the New Millennium Project, proposes ways to end extreme poverty all over the world within the next 20 years.
MAR 22, 2005 • Transcript
Liberty for Latin America: How to Undo 500 Years of State Oppression
Most Latin American countries have not overcome their inheritance from the colonial past: corporatism, state mercantilism, privilege, bottom-up wealth redistribution, and political law. By adopting ...
MAR 17, 2005 • Transcript
The Democracy Advantage: How Democracies Promote Prosperity and Peace
The authors argue that democracy and development go hand in hand. Therefore, more aid should be given to poor democracies and democratizers than to poor ...
MAR 15, 2005 • Transcript
Lightning Out of Lebanon: Hezbollah Terrorists on American Soil
"Hezbollah makes Al-Qaeda look like Sunday-schoolers, children, kindergartners" according to an FBI contact interviewed by journalists Diaz and Newman.
MAR 2, 2005 • Podcast
Beyond the Age of Innocence: Rebuilding Trust Between America and the World
Mahbubani observes that much of the world is disappointed with America's leadership, and yet would like it to take the lead in creating a stable ...
FEB 16, 2005 • Transcript
The Ethics of Identity
"Questions of identity, especially various forms of political identity, ethnicity, nationality, and politicized religion, are supposed to be problems for liberalism. So I became interested ...