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 New Chinese Empire and What It Means for the United States by Ross Terrill

MAY 14, 2003 Transcript

The New Chinese Empire: And What It Means for the United States

Our interests with China are peace, prosperity, and mutual exchange between two great countries and civilizations with openness for business, for students, for the professions. ...

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APR 30, 2003 Transcript

The Piratization of Russia: Russian Reform Goes Awry

How did a small group of Russian oligarchs manage to amass incredible fortunes in the short period following the end of the Cold War? Marshall ...

Unilateralism and U.S. Foreign Policy

APR 24, 2003 Transcript

Unilateralism and U.S. Foreign Policy

How is U.S. unilateralism in foreign policy perceived from abroad? This panel of international affairs experts presents a range foreign perspectives and discusses the ...

Terror And Liberalism by Paul Berman

APR 15, 2003 Transcript

Terror and Liberalism

Paul Berman discusses the common ideological underpinnings of totalitarian movements, from fascism and communism to the radical Islamist movement. He observes that&...

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APR 1, 2003 Transcript

Challenges for the U.S.--Threats and Opportunities on the Korean Peninsula

Donald Gregg sees North Korea’s recent confessions to kidnapping Japanese citizens and reviving its nuclear program as “evidence that Kim Jong Il is trying ...

Answering Only to God: Faith and Freedom in Twenty-First Century Iran by Abdo and Lyons

MAR 18, 2003 Transcript

Answering Only to God: Faith and Freedom in Twenty-First Century Iran

The national struggle underway in modern Iran is indicative of the theological debates in the Middle East today. At the heart of the turmoils in ...

Detail from book cover: "The War Over Iraq" by William Kristol and Lawrence Kaplan

MAR 5, 2003 Transcript

The War Over Iraq: Why Saddam Must Go . . . and Why America Must Lead

William Kristol and Lawrence Kaplan argue that a successful nation-building effort in Iraq will not only be a catalyst for change in the Middle East ...

FEB 27, 2003 Podcast

The End of the American Era: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Geopolitics of the Twenty-first Century

International relations authority Charles Kupchan argues that America ignores Europe at its own peril.

FEB 4, 2003 Transcript

Of Paradise and Power: America vs. Europe in the New World Order

The widening military gap between Europe and the United States has an unavoidable effect, says Robert Kagan. "It is a natural human phenomenon that if ...

Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda by Dallaire

JAN 29, 2003 Podcast

Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda

Dallaire recalls the agony of not being able to take action to halt the Rwandan genocide because he lacked the requisite authority as well as ...