Terrorism in an Age of Globalization
"The bloody crossroads of the next decade will be where globalization
meets terrorism," asserts Fareed Zakaria, the 2002-03 Van Evera Distinguished
Lecturer at Michigan Tech, in an op-ed piece in the New York Times
in December 2000. "All the wondrous developments of the new economy--falling
costs, fewer borders, easy communications--help international terrorists
and criminals as much as they do businessmen. And only well-exercised
power--military, economic and political--can meet this new threat."
Zakaria will visit the Michigan Tech campus on Monday, September 23 to
deliver the 2002-03 Van Evera Lecture, titled Terrorism in an Age of Globalization.
A reception will follow the lecture. Scheduled for 8:00 p.m. at the Rozsa
Center, the event is free and open to both campus and local communities.
Widely respected for his ability
to spot economic and political trends around the world, Fareed Zakaria
has developed an international reputation as a global thinker. Describing
him as "the most influential foreign policy adviser of his generation,"
Esquire Magazine named him "one of the twenty-one most important
people of the 21st Century."
Trained as an academic at
Yale and Harvard Universities, Zakaria became at the age of twenty-eight
the youngest managing editor in the history of Foreign Affairs, the leading
journal of international politics and economics, a position he held through
2000. In 2001 he was named editor of Newsweek International,
which has a global audience of 3.5 million, with editions distributed
throughout Europe, Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, and Asia. In
addition he writes a column that appears in Newsweek (USA), Newsweek
International, and often The Washington Post, making it one of the
most widely circulated columns of its kind in the world.
Indian-born Zakaria is co-editor
of The American Encounter: The United States and the Making of the Modern
World and author of From Wealth to Power, a provocative examination of
America's role on the world stage that received glowing reviews. Articulate
and engaging, he has given speeches at home and abroad, from universities
to investment conferences and at the World Economic Forum at Davos. He
has a reputation for impressing audiences with his knowledge of globalization
and what it means for countries, individuals, and corporations.
He has appeared on such programs
as Charlie Rose, Firing Line, The News Hour with Jim Lehrer,
The McLaughlin Group, the BBC World News and Meet
the Press. A recipient of the Overseas Press Club Award and a National
Magazine Award nomination, Zakaria writes frequently for such publications
as The New York Times, The New Yorker and The Wall Street
Journal as well as for the webzine Slate, for which he writes
a column on wine.
Before joining Foreign Affairs,
Zakaria ran the Project on the Changing Security Environment at Harvard
University, where he also taught international politics and economics.
He has been an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University and Case Western
Reserve University. His much anticipated next book, published by Norton
this fall, will shed light on the complex interaction between economics
and politics, on America's role in a rapidly changing world, and on the
way in which democracy is changing every aspect of our lives-from economics
and technology to politics and culture.
The Van Evera Lecture Series
is supported by a generous gift from the Van Evera family to the Michigan
Tech Fund and is coordinated by the MTU Great Events Series Office (487-2844).
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