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Michael Novak
David Satter
Irwin Stelzer
WORLD TRENDS IN RELIGIOUS
FREEDOM
At this event, Hudson’s Center for Religious Freedom
released the initial findings of its forthcoming survey,
Religious Freedom in the World 2007. The book describes
and analyzes 100 countries, especially those where religious
freedom is most violated. It ranks them comparatively;
includes scores and charts of freedom; details world trends,
correlating religious freedom with measures of economic
freedom, social well being, civil liberties, and political rights;
and features essays by experts explaining relevant issues.
Paul Marshall, a Senior Fellow with Hudson’s Center for
Religious Freedom, presented the survey results. Discussion
and additional commentary were provided by Brian Grim,
Senior Research Fellow in Religion and World Affairs at the
Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life; Theodore Malloch,
Founder and Chairman, Spiritual Enterprise Institute;
Zainab Al-Suwaij, Co-founder and Executive Director of
the American Islamic Congress (AIC); and Richard Land,
President of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics &
Religious Liberty Commission. This panel was chaired by
Michael Novak of the American Enterprise Institute.
JUNE
WE ARE SPENDING $2 BILLION
A DAY
Hudson Institute hosted this conference on the U.S. trade
deficit in New York City to discuss issues related to the
trade deficit, such as oil imports and oil money. Panelists
included author and consultant Erin Anderson, CNN host
Lou Dobbs, Senior Fellow at the U.S. Business and
Industry Council William Hawkins, Wall Street Journal
writer Stephen Moore, Hudson Adjunct Fellow Ernest
Preeg, and former CIA Director James Woolsey. Hudson
President Herbert London and former Secretary of
Education and radio talk show host William Bennett
moderated.
U.S.–RUSSIAN RELATIONS: THE
KENNEBUNKPORT AGENDA
The meeting between President George W. Bush and
Russian President Vladimir Putin in Kennebunkport came at
a critical moment in U.S.-Russian relations. After a promising
start at the beginning of the Bush administration, relations
between the two countries are now at a post-Soviet
low. A group of Hudson experts convened to discuss the
Kennebunkport summit and the future of relations between
Russia and the United States. Discussants included Zeyno
Baran, Director of Hudson’s Center for Eurasian Policy,
Andrei Piontkovsky, Hudson Visiting Fellow and former
director of the Moscow Center for Strategic Research, and
Senior Fellow David Satter, a former Moscow correspondent.
Senior Fellow Richard Weitz moderated.
LEFTISM AND POPULISM IN
TODAY’S LATIN AMERICA: IS
CHAVISMO CONTAGIOUS?
The Center for Latin American Studies, directed by Senior
Fellow Jaime Daremblum, in partnership with the Insti -
tute for Foreign Policy Analysis, held the inaugural lecture
of a new series on politics and society in Latin America
featuring Javier Corrales, an associate professor of govern-
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