In addition to publishing student research, the Monitor has just launched the International Interviews Series. The Monitor now interviews government officials, professors, international civil servants, and leaders of NGOs to get candid answers about the international scene. We are proud to present the first three interviews of our series. You can find PDF versions of each interview below. A print edition will be available in the fall.

We would like to thank the Reves Center for International Studies, the European Studies Program, the America in the World Speaker Series, and the Department of International Relations for making this project possible.

America in the World is a new speaker series at the College of William and Mary that brings international policy-makers and academics to the college. This program explores how America should exist in an increasingly interconected world. Furthermore, the program challenges students to consider how their roles as citizens of America affect the globalized world. Speakers John Prendergast, Adam Shapiro and Peter Katzenstein were all speakers in this program. Coming next fall, the Reves Center for International Studies will be hosting a new speaker series entitled "The World in America".

America’s Role in a World of Regions: Interview with Peter Katzenstein

Peter J. Katzenstein is the Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. Professor of International Studies at Cornell University. His research and teaching lie at the intersection of the fields of international relations and comparative politics. Katzenstein’s work addresses issues of political economy, security, and culture in both Europe and Asia, with a specific focus on Germany and Japan. His current research interests focus on the role of anti-Americanism, religion and popular culture, and regionalism in world politics, as well as changes in German politics. He is the author, co-author, and editor of 23 books and over 80 papers and book chapters. He is the recipient of the 1974 Helen Dwight Reid Award of the American Political Science Association for the best dissertation in international relations, of the American Political Science Association’s 1986 Woodrow Wilson prize for the best book published in the United States on international affairs, and, together with Nobuo Okawara, of the 1993 Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize. Since 1982, Katzenstein has served as the editor of more than the close to 100 books that Cornell University Press has published as part of the Cornell Studies in Political Economy. He received Cornell’s College of Arts and Science Stephen and Margery Russell Distinguished Teaching Award in 1993 and was made in 2005 one of Cornell University’s Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellows, in recognition of sustained and distinguished undergraduate teaching.
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Darfur Genocide: Interview with John Prendergast and Adam Shapiro

John Prendergast is Senior Advisor to the International Crisis Group and one of the leaders of the ENOUGH campaign. Previously John worked at the White House and State Department during the Clinton administration, where he was involved in a number of peace processes throughout Africa. John has also worked for members of Congress, the United Na­tions, human rights organizations, and think tanks. He has authored eight books on Africa, the latest of which he co-au­thored with actor/activist Don Cheadle, entitled Not on Our Watch which has just been released this month. John travels regularly to Africa’s war zones on fact-finding missions, peace-making initiatives, and awareness-raising trips involving net­work news programs, celebrities, and politicians.

Adam Shapiro most recently served as Country Director in Afghanistan for the international human rights organization Global Rights. He is a Ph.D. candidate in International Relations at American Uni­versity, and holds an MA in Politics from New York University and an MA in Arab Studies from Georgetown University. Adam is a founding member of InCounter Productions which produced the documentary film, About Baghdad, based on filming in Baghdad, Iraq in 2003. Adam is also a co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement in Palestine and lived and worked in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for three years. He has lived and worked throughout the Arab world and speaks Ara­bic. Adam serves on the Board of Directors of Partners for Peace and as a Member of the Executive Team of Imagine Life.
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Anti-Americanisms in Europe: Interview with Andrei Markovits

Andrei Markovits is currently the Karl W. Deutsch Collegiate Professor of Comparative Politics and German Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is the author and editor of many books, scholarly ar­ticles, conference papers, book reviews and newspaper contributions in English and many foreign languages on topics as varied as German and Austrian politics, anti-Semitism, anti-Americanism, social democracy, social movements, the European right and the European left. Markovits has also worked extensively on comparative sports culture in Europe and North America. He has widely written on global soccer with special emphasis on Germany, Austria and the United States. His latest book, Uncouth Nation: Why Europe Dislikes America, was published by Princeton University Press in January 2007. The book’s Italian translation just appeared in May 2007 with publications in other languages to follow. The new book demonstrates how European antipathies towards the United States and many things American have preceded the presidency of George W. Bush by decades, if not centuries. Moreover, these antipathies reach far beyond the common confines of politics and thus feature tropes that habitually comprise what one usually labels prejudice. Markovits is also a dedicated teacher who has won many teaching awards, most notably the Golden Apple Prize in 2007 bestowed by the student body of the University of Michigan on the faculty member it deems to be the best teacher on the university’s Ann Arbor campus.
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