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SCHOLAR IN THE SPOTLIGHT WILLIAM SCHAMBRA Hudson Media Highlights continued ■ Radio Marti Paul Marshall discusses global religious freedom July 11 ■ NPR Husain Haqqani on Pakistan July 10 ■ CTV (Canada) Andrei Piontkovsky on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to the U.S. July 2 ■ NPR Meyrav Wurmser debates engagement with Hamas June 28 “What is really very nice about Hudson Institute is that it is trying to stir debate and discussion in a sector—the nonprofit sector—which is intellectually moribund,” Georgetown University Scholar Pablo Eisenberg said at a public gathering August 9. At the center of this effort is Hudson Senior Fellow William Schambra, Director of the Bradley Center for Philanthropy and Civic Renewal. Since the center was founded at Hudson Institute in January 2003, Schambra has hosted dozens of discussions on hot button issues in the sector such as the political activity of 501(c)(3)s, Warren Buffett’s bequest to the Gates Foundation, the sector’s costly obsession with measurement and evaluation techniques, and philanthropy’s involvement in campaign finance reform. He is frequently invited to speak to nonprofit gatherings and university groups around the country and to write for the sector’s most widely distributed publication, the Chronicle of Philanthropy. These activities are often the fodder for discussion in several blogs on the nonprofit sector and philanthropy. Schambra’s “citizen-centered, town-square view of politics—and policymaking,” as described in a December 2006 profile in WORLD Magazine, informs his work, “helping to advance a view of effective philanthropy as being rooted in local communities.” Prior to joining Hudson Institute, he worked for eleven continued on page 22 ■ MSNBC Diana Furchtgott-Roth on the immigration bill June 24 ■ FOX NEWS Leon de Winter on Islam in Europe June 15 ■ BBC William Odom discusses the Iraq war June 15 ■ Fox News Channel David Satter on Vladimir Putin at the G-8 summit June 9 ■ Voice of America William Odom on the Iraq War June 6 4 HUDSON INSTITUTE / FALL 2007
EXCERPTS OF CONGRESSIONAL TESTIMONY BY HUDSON SCHOLARS ZEYNO BARAN’S testimony on energy and democracy in Central and Eastern Europe before the House Foreign Affairs Committee July 25 As the EU and the U.S. are act ive ly working to diversify European gas away from Russia (by supporting a pipe line project called Nabucco to trans port gas from the Caspian region via Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, and Hun gary, ending in Austria), Moscow has used its economic relations with Hungary (trade between Hungary and Russia increased by 70 percent over the last year) to try to pull Budapest away from its EU and NATO allies. As in Uk raine, energy played a key role in this effort. In 2000, an Irish-registered company called Milford Holding acquired a significant stake in BorsodChem, Hun gary’s primary chemical company and owner of a pipeline distribution network. It was soon revealed that Gaz prom was the real force behind Mil ford Holding. Shortly thereafter, a series of obscure, recently created com - panies began snatching up BorsodChem shares. Fearful that Gazprom or other Russian actors might be behind these firms as well, the Hungarian government rallied local companies and banks to fight off further intrusion and prevent a Russian takeover. JAIME DAREMBLUM’S testimony on U.S.-South American relations before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs June 19 Data from the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), show that between 2003 and 2006, over 18 million Latin Americans were able to escape from the poorest ranks of society. This is a tangible testimony to falling unemployment, improved income distribution, and a strong upswing in the number of jobs, namely in some South American countries, among them Colombia and Peru. Growing trade opportunities lie at the core of such economic and social advances. And trade, precisely, has been a chapter in which the U.S. has kept constantly engaged since 1983 through various free trade programs such as the Caribbean Basin Initiative (CBI), culminating in actual free trade agreements, namely with Chile, D- Cafta, plus those with Colombia, Peru, and Panama. It is crucial that the latter three agreements, as it was with Chile and D-Cafta, receive congressional approval for the benefit of millions more Latin Americans and of course American producers and consumers. This is a promise the U.S. cannot afford to abandon or circumvent, particularly in Colombia, without incurring costly negative consequences. As we all know, until only a few years ago, a democratic Colombia was on the verge of being lost amidst the chaos and extreme violence generated by drugs and drug-related terrorism. Thanks to the resilience of the Colombian people and the sustained backing of the U.S. through Plan Colombia, as well as the able leadership of President Álvaro Uribe, the country has begun to turn the tide in this decades-long battle. DIANA FURCHTGOTT- ROTH’S testimony on worker competitiveness before the House Ways and Means Committee June 14 In 2007, the United States leads the industrialized world in job creation, and our unemployment rate is among the lowest in the industrialized world. In contrast, unemployment rates in most other countries are far higher. In April 2007, the latest month for which comparable data are available, Ameri - cans had an unemployment rate of 4.5 percent, while unemployment rates in the Eurozone were 7.1 per cent; in France, 8.6 percent; in Germany, 6.7 percent; in Spain, 8.2 percent; and in Canada, 6.1 percent. Only Japan had a FALL 2007 / HUDSON INSTITUTE 5
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