Joanne J. Myers
Director, Public Affairs Programs

Joanne Myers is Director of the Carnegie Council's Public Affairs Programs (formerly Merrill House Programs). She is responsible for planning and organizing more than fifty public programs a year at the Council, many of which have been featured on C-SPAN's Booknotes.

Before joining the Council, Myers 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 consulate generals. Myers holds a J.D. from Benjamin C. Cardozo School of Law and a B.A. in international relations from the University of Minnesota.

Resources by this Author:

• Twilight War: The Folly of U.S. Space Dominance
• Petrostate: Putin, Power, and the New Russia
• Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History
• Descent into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia
• A Choice of Enemies: America Confronts the Middle East
• The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State
• Fixing Failed States: A Framework for Rebuilding a Fractured World
• The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order
• Empire of Lies: The Truth About China in the Twenty-First Century
• The Conscience of a Liberal
• The International Judge: An Introduction to the Men and Women Who Decide the World's Cases
• Climate Change and New Security Issues
• Torture and Democracy
• A Billion Lives: An Eyewitness Report from the Frontlines of Humanity
• The New Asian Hemisphere: The Irresistible Shift of Global Power to the East
• Uniting Against Terror: Cooperative Nonmilitary Responses to the Global Terrorist Threat
• Algeria: Anger of the Dispossessed
• Islam in Saudi Arabia's Politics
• Freedom in Retreat
• Perspectives on National Reconciliation in Iraq
• Beyond the National Interest: The Future of UN Peacekeeping and Multilateralism in an Era of U.S. Primacy
• The New American Story
• The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It
• Pakistan: The Struggle Between Politics and Extremism
• Towards a New Culture of International Relations: Rights and Responsibilities of the Individual in Multilateral Decision-Making
• Finance as a Tool of National Security: Update on the Effort to Combat Terror Financing
• The Elephant, the Tiger, and the Cell Phone: Reflections on India, the Emerging 21st-Century Power
• Secularism Confronts Islam
• Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race
• God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World
• Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy
• Head and Heart: American Christianities
• Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life
• What Makes a Terrorist: Economics and the Roots of Terrorism
• Challenges for Change: The Role of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) in the Islamic World
• The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics, and the Modern West
• Faith in the Halls of Power: How Evangelicals Joined the American Elite
• Hog Pilots, Blue Water Grunts: The American Military in the Air, at Sea, and on the Ground
• Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them
• Republic.com 2.0
• The People’s Choice: The French Election of 2007
• Shades of Gray: Military Commissions and the Rule of Law
• Off the Record: The Press, the Government, and the War over Anonymous Sources
• Children and Armed Conflict: Sri Lanka, a Case in Point
• Confronting Climate Change
• America Against the World: How We Are Different and Why We Are Disliked
• The Price of Liberty: Paying for America's Wars
• The Clash Within: Democracy, Religious Violence, and India's Future
• Once Upon a Country: A Palestinian Life
• Oil, Profits, and Peace: Does Business Have a Role in Peacemaking?
• The Occupation of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace
• China: Fragile Superpower: How China's Internal Politics Could Derail its Peaceful Rise
• The Darfur Crisis: Humanitarian Aid in the Balance
• Energy Security in the Gulf and the Growing Importance of "the East"
• Frontline Pakistan: The Struggle with Militant Islam
• Global Human Rights Leadership: Who Will Fill the Void Left by the United States?
• American Islam: The Struggle for the Soul of a Religion
• Nixon and Mao: The Week that Changed the World
• Secretary or General?: The UN Secretary-General in World Politics
• European Energy Security and the Role of Russia
• In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India
• Freedom in the World 2007: Is Freedom Under Threat?
• The Utility of Force: The Art of War in the Modern World
• Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present
• Global Financial Warriors: The Untold Story of International Finance in the Post-9/11 World
• Terrorism, Failed States, and Enlightened National Interest
• Nuclear Proliferation: A Delicate Balance Between Force and Diplomacy
• The International Struggle over Iraq: Politics in the UN Security Council 1998-2005
• Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo Van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance
• Generals in the Cabinet Room: How the Military Shapes Israeli Policy
• The Best Intentions: Kofi Annan and the UN in the Era of American World Power
• Is Democracy Possible Here? Principles for a New Political Debate
• The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future
• The New Faces of Christianity: Believing the Bible in the Global South
• Making Globalization Work
• The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West
• Faith and Politics: How the "Moral Values" Debate Divides America and How to Move Forward Together
• Uberpower: The Imperial Temptation of America
• Shopping for Bombs: Nuclear Proliferation, Global Insecurity, and the Rise and Fall of A. Q. Khan's Nuclear Network
• New News Out of Africa: Uncovering Africa's Renaissance
• Debate--The United Nations: Still Relevant After All These Years?
• The Progress of UN Reform
• Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency in Iraq
• Are We Misreading Iran's Nuclear Politics?
• Redefining Politics: Latin American Style
• Storm from the East: The Struggle between the Arab World and the Christian West
• Iran Awakening: A Memoir of Revolution and Hope
• Decade of Nightmares: The End of the Sixties and the Making of Eighties America
• You Must Set Forth at Dawn: A Memoir
• Islamic Challenge: Politics and Religion in Western Europe
• Fair Trade for All: How Trade Can Promote Development
• Globalized Islam: The Search for a New Ummah
• Race Against Time: Searching for Hope in AIDS-Ravaged Africa
• The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements 1967–1977
• The Forgotten War: Afghanistan
• Public Philosophy: Episodes and Arguments in American Civic Life
• Reaching for Power: The Shi'a in the Modern Arab World
• The Shield and the Cloak: The Security of the Commons
• Arguing About War (2006)
• Stoic Warriors: The Ancient Philosophy Behind the Military Mind
• The Twelve Religious Tribes of American Politics
• Cousins and Strangers: America, Britain, and Europe in a New Century
• American Vertigo: Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville
• My Italian Mission: Ethical Dilemmas and Lessons for Today
• Development Agenda 2006: From Ideas into Action
• Opus Dei: The First Objective Look Behind the Myths and Reality of the Most Controversial Force in the Catholic Church
• Corporate Warriors: The Privatized Military and Iraq
• Rx for Survival: Why We Must Rise to the Global Health Challenge
• German Immigration Issues
• ILLICIT: How Smugglers, Traffickers, and Copycats Are Hijacking the Global Economy
• The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth
• Chinese Ambitions and the Future of Asia
• America and the Challenges of Religious Diversity
• The E-Bomb
• Imperial Grunts: The American Military on the Ground
• The Cube and the Cathedral: Europe, America and Politics Without God
• Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq
• Globalization: What's New?
• Three Billion New Capitalists: The Great Shift of Wealth and Power to the East
• The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War
• Ending Torture and Secret Detention in America's Name
• At the Point of a Gun: Democratic Dreams and Armed Intervention
• Sons of the Conquerors: The Rise of the Turkic World
• Return to Greatness: How America Lost Its Sense of Purpose and What It Needs to Do to Recover It
• The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
• The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time
• Liberty for Latin America: How to Undo 500 Years of State Oppression
• The Democracy Advantage: How Democracies Promote Prosperity and Peace
• Lightning Out of Lebanon: Hezbollah Terrorists on American Soil
• Beyond the Age of Innocence: Rebuilding Trust Between America and the World
• The Ethics of Identity
• Bearing Witness to Genocide: Rwanda, Darfur, and the Implications for Future Peacekeeping Operations
• Children at War
• Three Challenges for the Human Rights Movement: Darfur, Abu Ghraib, and the Role of the United Nations
• The World's Banker: A Story of Failed States, Financial Crises, and the Wealth and Poverty of Nations
• America the Vulnerable: How Our Government is Failing to Protect Us from Terrorism
• Indonesian Democracy: New Hope
• Global Crises, Global Solutions
• What We Owe Iraq: War and the Ethics of Nation Building
• The United States of Europe: The New Superpower and the End of American Supremacy
• Challenges in UN Peacekeeping Operations
• Exporting America: Why Corporate Greed Is Shipping American Jobs Overseas
• New Perspectives on the Transatlantic Alliance
• Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe
• The Case for Democracy: The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny and Terror
• Free World: America, Europe, and the Surprising Future of the West
• In Defense of Globalization
• Arguing about War (2004)
• The Universal Hunger for Liberty: Why the Clash of Civilizations Is Not Inevitable
• Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Dependency on Imported Petroleum
• The War for Muslim Minds: Islam and the West
• The Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace
• Gag Rule: On the Stifling of Dissent and the Suppression of Democracy
• The Right Nation: How Conservatism Won
• Inside the Mirage: America's Fragile Partnership with Saudi Arabia
• Power, Terror, Peace, and War
• State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century
• Reason: Why Liberals Will Win the Battle for America
• The Challenges of Global Migration: An EU View
• The Press and the War on Terrorism
• Colossus: The Price of America's Empire
• Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment
• Waging Peace: Israel and the Arabs, 1948–2003
• A New World Order
• Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics
• Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies
• The Choice: Global Domination or Global Leadership
• Opening Mexico: The Making of a Democracy
• Where is the Lone Ranger When We Need Him? America’s Search for a Post-Conflict Stability Force
• The UN Security Council: From the Cold War to the 21st Century
• Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
• Universal Democracy? Prospects for a World Transformed
• Afghanistan between Hope and Abyss
• Challenges to the UN
• Of Paradise and Power: America vs. Europe in the New World Order (With a New Afterword)
• The Lesser Evil: Hard Choices in a War on Terror
• The Oligarchs: Wealth and Power in the New Russia
• Backstory: Inside the Business of News
• Freedom on Fire: Human Rights Wars and America’s Response
• Nehru: The Invention of India
• The Roaring Nineties: A New History of the World’s Most Prosperous Decade
• Fear’s Empire: War, Terrorism, and Democracy in an Age of Interdependence
• PLAN B: Rescuing a Planet under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble
• The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century
• Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and Lessons for Global Power
• Why Societies Need Dissent
• The Dust of Empire:The Race for Mastery in the Asian Heartland
• Rogue Nation: American Unilateralism and the Failure of Good Intentions
• At War with Ourselves: Why America Is Squandering Its Chance to Build a Better World
• The Future of Political Islam
• The New Chinese Empire: And What It Means for the United States
• The Piratization of Russia: Russian Reform Goes Awry
• Unilateralism and U.S. Foreign Policy
• Terror and Liberalism
• Challenges for the U.S.--Threats and Opportunities on the Korean Peninsula
• Answering Only to God: Faith and Freedom in Twenty-First Century Iran
• The War Over Iraq: Why Saddam Must Go... and Why America Must Lead
• The End of the American Era: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Geopolitics of the Twenty-first Century
• Of Paradise and Power: America vs. Europe in the New World Order
• Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda
• Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World’s Water
• The Mobilization of Shame: A World View of Human Rights
• Johannesburg: Achievements and Challenges
• Global Poverty and U.S. Foreign Policy
• One World: The Ethics of Globalization
• The New Killing Fields: Massacre and the Politics of Intervention
• First Great Triumph: How Five Americans Made Their Country a World Power
• A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis
• From a Reporter's Notebook: Afghanistan One Year Later: The Struggle for the Soul of a Nation
• Ethnic Conflict and Civic Life: Hindus and Muslims in India
• The Fragmentation of Afghanistan: State Formation and Collapse in the International System
• The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power
• Globalization and Its Discontents
• Unholy War: Terror in the Name of Islam
• Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam
• The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity
• Al-Jazeera: How the Free Arab News Network Scooped the World and Changed the Middle East
• A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
• What Went Wrong? Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response
• Human Rights and the Campaign Against Terrorism
• Public Intellectuals: A Study of Decline
• The Paradox of American Power: Why the World's Only Superpower Can't Go It Alone
• Countering Terrorism: Is the UN Playing Its Proper Role?
• Strategy: The Logic of War and Peace
• Multilateralism and U.S. Foreign Policy: Ambivalent Engagement
• Rethinking Europe's Future
• Can Asians Think? Understanding the Divide Between East and West
• The Graves Are Not Yet Full: Race, Tribe and Power in the Heart of Africa
• Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos
• Behind the Headlines: Afghanistan, Central Asia and the Rise of Militant Islam
• The Secret Strength of American Foreign Policy
• Bad Elements: Chinese Rebels from Los Angeles to Beijing
• Sectarian Violence in India: The Story of the One Riot
• Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden
• In the Wake of September 11: Human Security and Human Development in the 21st Century
• The European Union's Foreign Policy: Making a Difference in the World
• Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry
• America and Political Islam: Clash of Cultures or Clash of Interests?
• Israel and Palestine: Coexistence?
• The European Response to Terrorism
• Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict
• From War to Peace: Altered Strategic Landscapes in the Twentieth Century
• History of the Present: Essays, Sketches and Dispatches from Europe in the 1990s

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