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Research Program
Fall/Winter 2011

Table of Contents
About Hudson Institute .............................................................................................. i
International Security and Foreign Affairs ........................................................ 1
Promoting American National Security .......................................................................... 1
Defeating the Threat of Radical Islam ............................................................................ 3
Facing a Rising Asia ....................................................................................................... 4
Advancing U.S. Interests in the Americas ....................................................................... 5
Building Vibrant Civil Societies and Democracies across the Globe ............................ 5
Religious Freedom and Human Rights ................................................................ 7
Religious Freedom .......................................................................................................... 7
Freedom of Speech .......................................................................................................... 7
Human Rights.................................................................................................................. 8
Eye on the UN ................................................................................................................. 8
Economic, Health, and Innovation Policy Studies ........................................... 9
Fostering Innovation ....................................................................................................... 9
Building a More Competitive Economic Environment ................................................... 9
E-Government ............................................................................................................... 10
Energy Policy ................................................................................................................ 10
Health Care and Biotechnology Policies ...................................................................... 10
Economics of the Internet ............................................................................................. 10
Housing and Financial Markets ................................................................................... 11
The Future of the Automotive Industry ......................................................................... 11
Food Policy ................................................................................................................... 11
Obesity Solutions Initiative ........................................................................................... 11
Philanthropy, Society, and Culture ..................................................................... 12
American Identity .......................................................................................................... 12
Philanthropy and Civic Renewal .................................................................................. 13
Culture and the Rule of Law ......................................................................................... 13
Hudson Institute Leadership ................................................................................. 15
Hudson Institute Board of Trustees .................................................................... 15

About Hudson Institute
This year, Hudson Institute celebrates a half century as one of America’s premier policy research
organizations.
Founded by the late geostrategist Herman Kahn in 1961, Hudson Institute provides policy
research, insights, and analysis that advance national security, protect our liberty, and draw on
the power of free markets.
Hudson Institute has fifty years of proven, nonpartisan leadership in shaping critical domestic
and international policies. With ties to leaders around the world, and offices in Washington and
New York, Hudson projects into an uncertain future a compelling voice of reason on the great
challenges of the day, including:
protecting American national security and advancing the interests of the United States
and its allies;
securing human rights and religious freedom;
promoting growth and innovation through sound, market-based economic policies; and
strengthening civil society and philanthropy at home and abroad.
Hudson’s experts have experience at the highest levels of government and the private sector.
Decisionmakers and opinion leaders around the globe value Hudson Institute’s distinctive,
forward-looking research and innovative policy solutions.
Hudson scholars are frequently called to testify before congressional committees, and they
organize policy conferences that help shape debates on key issues. Hudson’s staff regularly
produces op-eds, white papers, briefings, journal articles, and studies that are widely circulated
on Capitol Hill and in the executive branch. The Institute’s website, Hudson.org, averages more
than 500,000 unique page views per month.
Hudson research garners press coverage in a wide variety of high-profile global print outlets and
serves as a resource for leading national and international publications. Hudson scholars offer
their expertise on pressing issues on every major U.S. news channel and in a variety of foreign
outlets.
Hudson Institute events provide a forum for scholars to advance their work and stimulate further
discussion of their ideas. Major policymakers speak at Hudson events, which attract leading
experts, stakeholders, and journalists as attendees and as viewers online. In addition to public
events, Hudson scholars also hold numerous private roundtable discussions, receptions, and
briefings.
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International Security and Foreign Affairs
Hudson Institute is a comprehensive and future-oriented policy research organization
that, for fifty years, has analyzed defense and foreign policy events and trends.
Hudson’s international policy scholars, many of whom have served in high-level
government posts, combine strong regional competencies—in Europe, the Middle East,
and Latin America, as well as Central, East, and South Asia—with knowledge of U.S.
and foreign military capabilities and strategic aims.
Hudson research in global affairs is conducted in five main areas:
promoting American national security;
defeating the threat of radical Islam;
facing a rising Asia;
advancing U.S. interests in North and South America; and
building vibrant civil societies and democracies across the globe.
Promoting American National Security
America’s military forces are the world’s most technologically advanced and powerful,
both because of our wealth and innovation and because of the diverse and competing
requirements of U.S. national security.
Hudson global affairs scholars analyze a broad but integrated range of issues central to
U.S. national security, including national security strategy, defense policy and
technology, maritime security and the future of the U.S. Navy, countering hostile
ideologies and terrorism, nuclear proliferation and cyber threats, and intelligence law and
policy.
Security Strategies
Strong American national security requires an integrated and cross-disciplinary
understanding of grand strategy. Hudson Institute’s national security experts study the
manifold threats faced by the United States, its allies, and its interests; offers forwardlooking
analyses of ever-changing global security landscapes; provides realistic
knowledge of U.S. capabilities, ranging from counterterrorism to high-tech warfare; and
develops comprehensive and effective strategies that seek to minimize threats, leverage
existing capabilities and alliances, and promote U.S. values and interests.
Hudson scholars analyze these threats— from Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran, to the Middle
East, Asia, Africa, and beyond—and seek to provide a solid footing for national security
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strategies to counter them and maintain U.S. global leadership. The Institute’s team
includes former senior-level officials, including Senior Vice President Lewis Libby, the
former chief of staff to Vice President Richard Cheney; Senior Fellow Douglas Feith, the
former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy; former Pentagon officials including, Seth
Cropsey, the former Deputy Undersecretary of the Navy, Jack David, the former Deputy
Assistant Secretary of Defense, Abram Shulsky, and Richard Weitz; and former Principal
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Arms Control Christopher Ford. President and
CEO Kenneth Weinstein focuses on alliance relations with Europe and Asia.
Defense Policy and Technology
Maintaining the American military advantage requires tapping the technological prowess
of the U.S. economy, and, where necessary, the capabilities of our allies. The key to
ensuring that the Defense Department can benefit from technological advances is
preserving a defense-industrial base that is vibrant and technologically superior; this is
possible only through competition.
Competition in the defense-industrial arena has recently been impeded by a number of
developments. Most notable has been the consolidation of the defense-industrial base into
fewer contractors, and the reduced number of major defense programs for which they can
compete. A top-down, bureaucratic procurement process does not encourage competition
and will thwart efforts to ensure that our weapons systems remain at the technological
cutting edge.
Hudson Institute Senior Fellows—Douglas Feith, former Undersecretary of Defense for
Policy, Abram Shulsky, former Pentagon analyst, Seth Cropsey, former Deputy
Undersecretary of the Navy, and Christopher Ford, former Principal Deputy Assistant
Secretary of State for Arms Control—analyze the political and institutional factors
potentially imperiling future advances in the defense industry.
Maritime Security and Strategy
U.S. naval power was critical to assuring the rise of the United States as a global power.
Increasing ship costs, the likelihood of decreasing naval budgets as land action against
jihadists continues, and the Navy’s own declared strategy of emphasizing humanitarian
assistance and disaster relief all suggest that the United States will experience increasing
difficulty executing the traditional missions of a great maritime power. Led by Seth
Cropsey, a Hudson Senior Fellow and former Deputy Undersecretary of the Navy,
Hudson Institute’s maritime policy research focuses attention on the implications of a
shrinking U.S. Navy threatened by future budget cuts, a growing Chinese navy, and an
increasingly tense world, exploring the likely effect of these changes on the United
States’ position as a great power.
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Proliferation Threats
Following years of dramatic nuclear reductions after the end of the Cold War, the current
goal of U.S. nuclear policy is to fundamentally alter the status quo. As a means to help
reach this goal, the idea of countervailing reconstitution—maintaining the capacity to
restart nuclear weapons programs after the elimination of all existing weapons—may be
the only vehicle accepted by both supporters and detractors of the current nuclear
balance. Led by Senior Fellow Christopher Ford, a former Principal Deputy Assistant
Secretary of State for Arms Control, and drawing on Hudson Institute’s rich heritage of
strategic nuclear research, the Center for Technology and Global Security provides
comprehensive analysis of the policy merits and programmatic implications of
countervailing reconstitution as an approach to continuing nuclear reductions, the
possibility of achieving a world free of nuclear weapons, and maintaining an abolition
regime in the face of proliferation pressures.
Complementary work is done by Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Political-
Military Analysis Richard Weitz, who researches proliferation issues, and by Adjunct
Fellow Shmuel Bar, who analyzes regional proliferation through the traditions, history,
and current strategic thinking of Muslim and Arab culture.
Intelligence Law
Adjunct Fellow John Shenefield, former Associate Attorney General of the United States,
analyzes the shortcomings and challenges of the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance
Act.
Defeating the Threat of Radical Islam
Believing that the threats emanating today from the Muslim world are increasingly
interconnected and global in character, Hudson Institute research focuses on the power of
radical Islam and the challenges it presents to American interests; the threat of terrorism
and global Jihad, and threats to U.S. allies, especially Israel; and potential U.S. policy
responses.
Hudson Institute research on radical Islam draws upon the expertise of Muslim and non-
Muslim scholars, including Senior Vice President Lewis Libby, Research Fellow Eric
Brown, Senior Fellow Maneeza Hossain, Senior Fellow Meyrav Wurmser, and Visiting
Fellow’s Nibras Kazimi, Elizabeth Samson, and Lee Smith.
The Center on Islam, Democracy, and the Future of the Muslim World, directed by
Senior Fellow Hillel Fradkin, is the only U.S. policy program dedicated to analyzing the
Muslim world as a whole and not solely specific regions and countries. This focus
derives from the tendency of Muslim regimes and political movements—especially
radical Islamic ones—to view themselves as global in their politics. The Center also
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undertakes research on specific regions and countries of importance to American national
security interests.
Current Trends in Islamist Ideology, the flagship publication of the Center, is the only
journal exclusively devoted to radical Islam and its ideology. Founded in response to the
terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 by Fradkin, Eric Brown, and Husain Haqqani, a former
Hudson fellow who currently is Pakistani Ambassador to the United States, Current
Trends is universally regarded as an authoritative source of in-depth research and analysis
on the ideological dimensions of the contemporary Islamist movement. It present editors
are Fradkin and Brown.
Countering the ideological underpinnings of jihadist extremism is the key to reducing the
threat of radical Islam. Though many researchers have considered recasting strategic
communications or using other forms of “soft power,” none has come to grips with the
basic question of how the United States should now organize itself now to implement
strategy in this area. Hudson Senior Fellows Douglas Feith and Abram Shulsky are
currently analyzing factors that will enable the United States to conduct activities to
counter hostile ideologies effectively.
A firm supporter of the importance of the U.S.-Israeli relationship as a part of America’s
national interests in the Middle East, Hudson Institute regularly hosts public forums for
such prominent Israeli officials as Ambassador Michael Oren and Ministers Moshe
Ya’alon and Uzi Landau. Hudson scholars frequently write op-eds and articles asserting
the importance of maintaining Israel’s security; they visit Israel to meet with its officials
and conduct projects with Israeli partner organizations. Hudson Institute scholars
participate in the annual Herzliya Conference, Israel’s premier defense policy forum.
Adjunct Fellow Ronald Radosh, an award-winning historian, writes on Arab-Israeli
relations, and U.S. policy on the Middle East.
Facing a Rising Asia
Hudson Institute’s research portfolio is extensive in issues relating to Asia, including
geopolitics, trade, proliferation, religion, demographics, and international policy.
Hudson Institute China scholars include Senior Fellows Charles Horner and Christopher
Ford. They study how contemporary developments in China are influenced by the
country’s evolving views of its modern historical experience and by its intellectual and
cultural traditions. Horner and Research Fellow Eric Brown have paired to study China’s
“New March West” and the strategic implications of Sinic-Islamic relations.
Hudson scholars—including Senior Fellows Jack David, Chris Ford, and Seth Cropsey,
Senior Vice President Lewis Libby, and Visiting Fellow John Lee—study U.S. strategy
for the future and security of the Asia-Pacific region and South Asia, including bilateral
and trilateral relationships as well as broader alliance issues in the region. Special
attention is focused on countries where Hudson has a long legacy of research, including
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Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. Research Fellow Aparna Pande examines the future of India’s
defense and foreign policy, its relations with Pakistan and China, and its alliance with the
United States.
Hudson scholarship devotes special attention to the challenge of developing a stronger
framework for the United States’ bilateral relationships in the region, so that they are not
wholly subsumed within, or submerged by, the larger relationship with China.
Advancing U.S. Interests in the Americas
The Center for Latin American Studies provides analysis of key economic, social, and
political developments and trends throughout Latin America. Senior Fellow and Center
Director Jaime Daremblum served as Ambassador of Costa Rica to the United States
from 1998 to 2004. The Center facilitates dialogue between leaders in Latin America and
the United States to advance policies that promote freedom, democracy, and economic
opportunity. It focuses on critical emerging issues, including radical populist regimes; the
increasing roles of China, Russia, and Iran in Latin America; the Palestinian upsurge in
the region; possibilities for increased regional cooperation on energy and security issues;
and avenues for improving U.S.-Latin American relations.
Senior Fellow Christopher Sands specializes in Canada and U.S.-Canadian relations, an
area that encompasses energy issues, the alliance relationship, and border security. John
Walters, Hudson’s Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, was director of
the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy during the George W. Bush
administration. Walters analyzes the security threat from large, violent criminal
organizations operating across the U.S.-Mexico border and in Central and South
America.
Building Vibrant Civil Societies and Democracies across the Globe
Hudson Institute is committed to the flourishing of democratic societies around the
world. Hudson scholarship on society, culture, and philanthropy is guided by a
fundamental understanding of, and loyalty to, the principles of liberal democracy and its
key elements: respect for the rule of law, individual rights, and the integrity of civil
society.
Hudson scholars are involved with efforts to build and strengthen civil society in dozens
of countries, and frequently travel the globe to promote these efforts. Research Fellow
Eric Brown and Senior Fellow Abram Shulsky interact with Iraqi civil society figures and
researchers to encourage engagement with their American counterparts on a range of
topics, including the relationship between religion and politics and law and democracy,
and the necessity of a strong culture of independent policy research and commentary.
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In Georgia, Senior Fellow Charles Fairbanks leads an effort to build democracy through
the civic education of university students. The market-oriented liberal arts program,
constructed by Fairbanks and implemented by him in Georgia during and after the
Russian invasion, has resulted in record enrollments by Georgian students. Fairbanks, as
well as Senior Fellows Richard Weitz and David Satter, analyze the strategic challenges
posed by Russia and its looming autocracy.
Under the direction of Senior Fellow Carol Adelman, the Center for Global Prosperity
creates awareness of the central role of the private sector in economic growth and
prosperity in the developing world. The Center produces the annual Index of Global
Philanthropy and Remittances, the sole comprehensive guide to private giving to
developing countries by institutions and individuals in the United States and other
developed countries. Now in its sixth edition, the Index reframes the discussion about the
roles of public and private sectors in foreign aid by showing that the full scale of a
country’s generosity is measured not just by government aid, but by private giving as
well. The Index painstakingly details the levels of U.S. and international private
assistance to the developing world, which far exceed official development aid in both
scale and impact.
In addition to the Index of Global Philanthropy and Remittances, the Center for Global
Prosperity is undertaking a new pilot index entitled A Comparative Index of
Philanthropic Freedom, the first indicator-based competition in philanthropy that
compares the freedom to give on a country-by-country basis. This project addresses
issues central to the success of liberal democracy, including individual freedom and the
integrity of civil society.
Hudson Senior Fellow and Former USAID administrator Andrew Natsios examines how
U.S. policy can promote stability and democracy in fragile states, focusing often on
Africa.
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Religious Freedom and Human Rights
Hudson Institute hosts a vibrant program that presses for religious and other fundamental
freedoms and human rights. The program documents abuses of religious freedom,
especially in the Muslim world, and it works to develop policies that protect human rights
in a range of ways, including fighting human trafficking, reforming prisons, and
combating Internet censorship.
Hudson research in religious freedom and human rights is conducted in four main areas:
promoting religious freedom;
defending freedom of speech;
protecting human rights; and
exposing hypocrisy and intolerance at the United Nations.
Religious Freedom
The Center for Religious Freedom, Directed by Senior Fellow Nina Shea, seeks to show
the centrality of religious freedom to political freedom and democracy. The
Center defends individuals and minority groups persecuted for their religious beliefs, and
works to promote religious freedom through U.S. foreign policy. Led by Shea and Senior
Fellow Paul Marshall, the Center’s current work highlights and opposes the tyranny of
Muslim blasphemy and apostasy laws, which are used to oppress Muslim reformers,
converts, religious minorities, and others.
The Center actively documents the religious persecution roiling the Muslim world today.
Throughout the Muslim Middle East, Jews, Christians, Hindus, Zoroastrians, Bahais,
Mandeans, Yazidis, and liberal Muslims are violently persecuted and often driven out of
their countries en masse. State-enforced Islamic blasphemy and apostasy rules are now
making an appearance in the West under the guise of so-called hate speech bans.
Visiting Fellow Marcello Pera, former President of the Italian Senate, researches how
Europe could reclaim its Christian culture to meet the civilizational challenges posed by a
strong and growing Muslim presence.
Freedom of Speech
The very definition of free speech in democratic societies is under threat, as Western
Europe, Canada, and Australia—whose own blasphemy laws fell into disuse decades
ago—now arrest and try political leaders, cartoonists, journalists, and writers who
criticize Islam. Hudson Senior Fellows Paul Marshall and Nina Shea fight the silence of
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the U.S. foreign policy establishment on the coercion of religious conformity in the
Muslim Middle East and the related threat to free speech in the West.
To further the free exchange of ideas and dialogue, Senior Fellow Michael Horowitz
works with a broad coalition to neutralize efforts by China, Iran, and other authoritarian
regimes to monitor or block their citizens’ Internet access.
Human Rights
Senior Fellow Michael Horowitz focuses on additional human rights issues that affect
some of the most vulnerable populations in the world today, including children, rape
victims, and refugees from authoritarian regimes. Horowitz builds bipartisan coalitions
that seek to protect these populations by passing and implementing effective laws and
policies, such as those designed to prevent international and domestic human trafficking,
address prison rape and promote international prison reform, provide aid for victims of
obstetric fistula, and combat Chinese support for the authoritarian regime of Kim Jong-il
in North Korea.
Senior Fellow Melanie Kirkpatrick is currently writing a book recounting a rare goodnews
story from North Korea: the escape to freedom of a small number of its people with
the help of rescuers from the United States and South Korea. Through the little-known
stories of North Korean refugees and the courageous individuals who help them, she
examines the failed policies of the United States, South Korea, China, and the United
Nations and will recommend more humane policies designed to open up North Korea,
create dissent, and change the totalitarian regime.
Eye on the UN
Directed by Senior Fellow Anne Bayefsky, EYEontheUN.org reports on the wide range
of United Nations actions that leave human rights victims defenseless and contribute to
racism, intolerance, and anti-Semitism. EYEontheUN is dedicated to making transparent
the United Nation’s record on its fundamental promise—to identify, condemn, and
protect against human rights violations and confront and respond to threats to
international peace and security.
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Economic, Health, and Innovation Policy Studies
Ever since the founding of Hudson Institute in 1961, our economic and health policy
research has been shaped by a basic belief in the power and vibrancy of markets and
technology to shape a better future for mankind. Driven by this future-oriented and
dynamic vision, our scholars research issues ranging from digital innovation to the future
of the workforce to preparedness in the face of a potential bioterrorist threat.
Hudson research in economic, health, and innovation policy is conducted in nine main
areas:
fostering innovation;
building a more competitive economic environment;
making government more efficient;
designing effective energy policy;
promoting innovative, market-oriented health care solutions and biotechnology
policies;
providing market-based guidance on Internet policy;
analyzing housing and financial market trends;
examining the transformation of the U.S. automotive industry; and
encouraging state of the art agricultural and food policy.
Fostering Innovation
Hudson Institute is launching a major initiative to begin a national debate about
innovation strategies. The program, which leverages the talents of Hudson scholars
across the breadth of the Institute, will analyze conditions favorable to America’s
innovation dominance in the past; identify factors that drive or weaken American
innovation today; examine the old innovation pipeline and construct a new one; spark a
debate on national innovation policy; and provide a strategy to revitalize American
innovation superiority, with a focus on breakthrough technologies.
Building a More Competitive Economic Environment
With 450 million consumers and a combined GDP of $15 trillion, North America
competes with the economies of the European Union and Asia in a world where
communication, technology, capital, and high-skilled labor are mobile and fluid. Hudson
Institute’s scholars research and publicize factors critical to ensuring a competitive
environment, including regulation, taxation, border access and security, and inspection
processes.
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E-Government
The dramatic improvements that digital currency has created in the private sector for
business and commercial transactions are catalyzing the public sector with a whole new
potential for transformative results. Visiting Fellow Hanns Kuttner analyzes this critical
development and the significant possibilities for digital currency applications by
government at all levels.
Energy Policy
Senior Fellow Irwin Stelzer, Director of Hudson’s Economic Policy Studies, and Visiting
Fellow Lee Lane work to examine factors shaping U.S. and global energy policy and
markets, including shifting demand, challenges posed by carbon taxes and regulation, the
need for realism in climate policy, the inadvisability of federal spending on green jobs,
and nuclear policy in a post-Fukushima age.
Stelzer, who writes on antitrust and regulatory policy, also comments on tax and other
economic policy development in the United States and Britain.
Health Care and Biotechnology Policies
Hudson Institute scholars on health issues include Senior Fellow Tevi Troy, former
Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services, and Visiting Fellow Hanns Kuttner, a
former White House health policy advisor.
Troy studies the threat to innovation posed by government policies in the health care
sector. He also analyzes the implementation of President Obama’s sweeping health care
reform law. His work on bioterrorism aims to keep the U.S. population and policymakers
aware of—and informed about—the nature and extent of bioterror threats.
Kuttner advances alternative methods for modeling the cost growth of health care,
including developing a range of variables and scenarios that show possible paths of future
health care costs, and he explores how strategic considerations could lead various actors
to make different choices.
Under the direction of Senior Fellow Jeremiah Norris, the Center for Science in Public
Policy researches an array of international health issues, including the economic impact
of neglected tropical diseases and the macroeconomic impact of cardiovascular diseases
in the developing world.
Economics of the Internet
Senior Fellow and Former FCC Commissioner Harold Furchtgott-Roth Directs Hudson’s
Center for the Economics of the Internet, a program presenting a market-oriented
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perspective on Internet policy, including clear property rights, clear contract rights,
competition, and an absence of government interference. The Center strives to provide
market-based guidance to those policymakers and government officials who are
formulating and implementing Internet policies.
Housing and Financial Markets
Directed by John Weicher, Senior Fellow and former Assistant Secretary for Housing at
the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Center for Housing and
Financial Markets has been conducting research and hosting events on the major current
policy issues in housing and housing finance in the aftermath of the housing market
collapse. These issues include the role and future of the government-sponsored
enterprises, various proposals to repeal the mortgage interest deduction, and recent
criticisms of the thirty-year fixed-rate mortgage. The Center is also studying the longterm
dynamics of the housing market by measuring and analyzing changes in affordable
rental housing stock.
The Future of the Automotive Industry
Senior Fellow Christopher Sands analyzes the potential consequences of new U.S.
industrial policy initiatives relating to automotive manufacturing, and explores how firms
and governments can best preserve and enhance the current competitive advantages and
strengths of the auto sector in North America.
Food Policy
The Center for Global Food Issues, directed by Senior Fellow Dennis Avery, serves as a
broker between urban and farming communities, helping to educate city dwellers about
the importance of modern farming while offering farmers a broader perspective on their
role. The center monitors national and global farm production and consumption trends,
new technologies that impact farming and food demand, and farm/food policy changes.
Obesity Solutions Initiative
Senior Fellow Hank Cardello focuses on pragmatic, market-based solutions to pressing
societal problems related to food, including free market solutions to solving America’s
obesity crisis and alternatives to “fat taxes.” The Obesity Solutions Initiative at Hudson
Institute seeks to forge workable policies and solutions to the global obesity epidemic
among critical stakeholders.
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Philanthropy, Society, and Culture
Hudson Institute research has always been guided by a belief in the importance of
culture, religion, the rule of law, and constitutionalism, all of which help to define the
United States and other liberal democratic societies. Our renowned scholars work to
promote a vital civil society through applied research that examines contemporary policy
debates through the prism of American citizenship, patriotism, and civic education.
Hudson research in philanthropy, society, and culture is conducted in three main areas:
enhancing understanding of American identity;
promoting philanthropy and civic renewal; and
analyzing culture and the rule of law.
American Identity
Herbert London, President Emeritus of Hudson Institute and former Dean of New York
University’s Gallatin School, is a prolific social critic whose work examines the decline
of American culture, the rise of radical secularism, and the challenge posed by radical
Islam. Senior Fellow and former Chairman of the National Endowment for the
Humanities Bruce Cole, also the former Chairman of the American Revolution Center,
writes on civic education and American history.
Senior Fellow Amy Kass, an Emeritus Professor of the Humanities at the University of Chicago
who has won numerous awards for her teaching, works extensively on civic renewal and
American identity. American public life requires citizens who know who they are as Americans,
who are knowledgably attached to their country and communities, and who possess the
character—the attitudes, sensibilities, and virtues—necessary for robust civic participation. The
overall aim of Kass’ work is to contribute to the formation of such citizens by exploiting the
soul-shaping possibilities offered by American imaginative literature and political rhetoric.
Under the direction of Senior Fellow John Fonte, the Center for American Common
Culture seeks to strengthen, sustain, and perpetuate American national identity and the
American way of life. The Center established itself as a major actor in the policy arena by
promoting the patriotic assimilation of immigrants and by presenting a vigorous
intellectual defense of American national identity, democratic sovereignty, and common
culture.
Fonte’s current work examines issues related to the patriotic assimilation of immigrants
and the challenge to American self-government from a host of forces advocating
transnationalism over American democratic sovereignty.
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Philanthropy and Civic Renewal
Directed by Senior Fellow William Schambra, the Bradley Center for Philanthropy and
Civic Renewal encourages foundations and charitable donors to direct more resources to
the small, local, and often faith-based grassroots associations that are the heart of a vital
civil society.
In its research, writing, and regular seminars, the Center critically examines the current
giving practices of American foundations, which tend to support large, expert-driven
projects that often undercut small civic associations. It aims to provoke conversation
about the most important—and seldom discussed—issues before the nonprofit sector. It
also provides practical advice and counsel to funders who are interested in designing
grant-making programs that support civic renewal.
Schambra is a regular columnist for The Chronicle of Philanthropy, the top news source
for charity leaders, foundation executives, and development officers.
Culture and the Rule of Law
Judge Robert Bork, the noted constitutional scholar and Hudson Distinguished Fellow, is
currently working on a book examining the tumultuous events of 1973. Judge Bork spent
much of that year as the solicitor general and acting attorney general, and his book will
provide unique recollections and insight.
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Hudson Institute Leadership
KENNETH R.WEINSTEIN
President & CEO
LEWIS LIBBY
Senior Vice President
GRACE PAINE TERZIAN
Vice President for Communications
JOHN P. WALTERS
Executive Vice President & COO
HERBERT I. LONDON
President Emeritus
JOHN W. FREEMAN
Chief Financial Officer
Hudson Institute Board of Trustees
ALLAN R. TESSLER
Chairman of the Board of Trustees
MARIE-JOSÉE KRAVIS
Vice Chair
SARAH MAY STERN
Vice Chair
WALTER P. STERN
Chairman Emeritus
Thomas C. Barry
Linden S. Blue
John Catsimatidis
Jack David
Gerald Dorros
Russ Gerson
Lawrence Kadish
Deborah Kahn Cunningham
Laurence Leeds, Jr.
George Jay Lichtblau
Herbert I. London
Bill Matassoni
Ebby Moussazadeh
Yoji Ohashi
Carolyn Parlato
E. Miles Prentice III
Jack Rosen
Nina Rosenwald
Joseph Schmuckler
William Schweitzer
William D. Siegel
Susan M. Steinhardt
Kenneth R. Weinstein
Margaret Whitehead
Curtin Winsor, Jr.
John C. Wohlstetter
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