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Ronald Dworkin, Norman Doidge, and John O’Sullivan<br />
Jaime Daremblum<br />
THE MONTEBELLO SUMMIT AND<br />
THE FUTURE OF NORTH AMERICA<br />
The leaders of the three North American countries met<br />
August 20-21 in Montebello, Quebec, for the third in a<br />
series of annual summits that have been held to oversee a<br />
process of trilateral negotiations on economic regulation and<br />
security procedures called the Security and Prosperity<br />
Partnership of North America, or SPP. Participants of the<br />
conference reviewed the progress of the SPP negotiations,<br />
presented the status of relations among the three NAFTA<br />
partners, and discussed Negotiating North America, a paper<br />
by conference chairman and <strong>Hudson</strong> Senior Fellow<br />
Christopher Sands and Greg Anderson of University of<br />
Alberta. Discussants included Sands and Anderson; Jaime<br />
Daremblum, Director of <strong>Hudson</strong>’s Center for Latin<br />
American Studies; John Fonte, Director of <strong>Hudson</strong>’s Center<br />
for American Common Culture; <strong>Hudson</strong> Senior Fellow<br />
John O’Sullivan; <strong>Hudson</strong> CEO Kenneth Weinstein; former<br />
Congressman James R. Jones; Barbara Kotschwar<br />
from the Peterson <strong>Institute</strong>; Robert Pastor of American<br />
University; Daniel Schwanen of the Center for<br />
International Governance and Innovation; and Sidney<br />
Weintraub from the Center for Strategic and International<br />
Studies. C-SPAN filmed this event for a live broadcast.<br />
THE INTERNATIONAL DIMENSIONS<br />
OF SECURING CYBERSPACE<br />
Seymour Goodman, Professor of International Affairs and<br />
Computing at Georgia Tech, led this discussion on the extent<br />
of the internationalization of cyberspace, specific international<br />
problems, and weaknesses that add to cyberspace insecurity,<br />
especially relating to Africa, and discussed some forms<br />
of international cooperation that might help alleviate these<br />
problems. Harold Furchtgott-Roth, Director of <strong>Hudson</strong>’s<br />
Center for Telecom munications, Information, and National<br />
Security Policy, gave the introduction. C-SPAN carried a live<br />
broadcast of this event.<br />
FIGHTING FOR HUMAN RIGHTS<br />
IN BANGLADESH<br />
<strong>Hudson</strong> <strong>Institute</strong> hosted a discussion in New York with<br />
journalist Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury on human<br />
rights and radical Islam in Bangladesh. <strong>Hudson</strong> President<br />
Herbert London served as moderator.<br />
JULY<br />
CHRISTIANS AND ISLAMIC<br />
EXTREMISM IN THE PALESTINIAN<br />
STATE<br />
Growing Islamist extremism endangers a 2,000-year-old<br />
Palestinian Christian community; and heightened violence,<br />
the political rise of Hamas, and fears of the imposition of<br />
Islamic sharia law have thrown into question the survival of<br />
the Palestinian Christians, who now make up only three<br />
percent of the Palestinian population. A series of attacks<br />
against Christian targets has led Christians in the Gaza Strip<br />
to appeal for international assistance. This situation and<br />
future prospects of this threatened community were discussed<br />
by Justus Weiner, a distinguished Scholar in<br />
Residence at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. Nina<br />
Shea, Director of <strong>Hudson</strong>’s Center for Religious Freedom,<br />
gave the introduction.<br />
FALL 2007 / HUDSON INSTITUTE 11
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