Edited by Alan Johnson

Price: £9.95 + £2 p&p (UK) / US$45.00 (overseas)

This book brings together a series of conversations about the dilemmas of progressive foreign policy after 9/11. Democratiya editor Alan Johnson talks to Jean Bethke Elshtain, Martin Shaw, Kanan Makiya, Paul Berman, David Held, Saad Eddin Ibrahim, Ladan Boroumand, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Joshua Muravchik and Mary Kaldor.

Alan Johnson is founder and editor of Democratiya, and Professor of Democratic Theory and Practice at Edge Hill University. He is the co-author of the Euston Manifesto, a founder member of Labour Friends of Iraq, and an advisory editor of Engage Journal. He is the co-editor of Leadership and Social Movements and the co-author (with Abdullah Muhsin) of Hadi Never Died: Hadi Saleh and the Iraqi Trade Unions.

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Send a cheque for £11.95 (for UK orders) made payable to 'The Foreign Policy Centre' or an international money order for US$45 (for overseas orders) to: The Foreign Policy Centre (Book Orders), Suite 14, 2nd Floor, 23-28 Penn Street, London N1 5DL, UK. Make clear you are ordering 'Global Politics After 9/11' and include your full postal address.

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For more information about events recently hosted or co-hosted by the Foreign Policy Centre, please see below and our Events page at: www.fpc.org.uk/events

Date: Wednesday 16 July 2008, 3.00-5.00pm

Speakers:

•Jeff Seabright, Vice President, Environment and Water Resources, The Coca-Cola Company

•Jon Hobbs, Lead Policy Analyst - Environmental Assessment and Mining & Development, Policy and Research Division, Department for International Development (DFID)

•Dax Lovegrove, Head of Business and Industry Relations, WWF-UK

Co-chairs: Baroness Margaret Jay and Stephen Twigg, FPC Director

This Foreign Policy Centre event, in association with Coca-Cola Great Britain, formed the final part of the 'CSR in Emerging Markets: The Role of MNCs' series. The event examined CSR in emerging markets with a focus on environmental sustainability, including exploring the linkages between and impact of multinational business practices on the environment, as well as the latest developments in CSR policies which relate to protecting the environment. The speakers presented business, government and civil society perspectives on these themes.

This event was held in association with Coca-Cola Great Britain.

Date: Wednesday 25 June, 10.30-12.00

Speakers:

Malcolm Wicks MP, Minister of State for Energy

Lars G. Josefsson, President and Chief Executive, Vattenfall

Dr Emma Wilson, Senior Researcher, Business and Sustainable Development, International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

Ed Crooks, Energy Editor, Financial Times

Chair: Rt Hon John Gummer MP, Former UK Secretary of State for the Environment (1993-1997)

The aim of this FPC and Vattenfall event was to critically explore the challenges and opportunities presented by improving energy productivity and securing environmental sustainability. The event critically explored the challenges faced by governments, business leaders, individual households and wider civil society in improving energy efficiency. The forum addressed how the world can accelerate its investments in the clean technologies necessary to reduce carbon emissions, thus making renewable energy much more affordable for the future. It also explored the best ways of undertaking the more costly tasks associated with taking immediate action to cut emissions today.

Date: Wednesday 14th May 2008, 9.30-3.30pm

Speakers included:

• Boris Nemtsov, Former Deputy Prime Minister of Russia
• Ed Lucas, The Economist and Author of 'The New Cold War: How the Kremlin Menaces Both Russia and the West'
• David Clark, Chair, The Russia Foundation
• Akhmed Zakaev, Prime Minister, Resistance Government of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria
• Tony Wood, Writer & Author
• Andrei Piontkovsky, Executive Director, Centre for Strategic Studies, Moscow

Taking place only days after Dimitry Medvedev formally took over as President of the Russian Federation, this Chechnya Peace Forum and Foreign Policy Centre event focused on what is happening in Russia today, with sessions on democracy and politics, civil liberties and the rule of law, Russian policy in Chechnya and the Caucasus and Russian influence on the world stage.

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• The full programme