Events Detail

The recent spate of riots in France provoked a major international debate about France's once-heralded republican model of social integration and a new focus on the future of Europe's largely unassimilated and predominantly Muslim minority communities. The fact that these riots followed the Madrid and London bombings and have since been succeeded by anti-Muslim riots in Australia raises many unsettling questions. Is the multiculturalism model a solution or part of the problem? Did the French riots have largely economic or cultural origins? Can Muslim minorities in Europe be assimilated? And if so, how?

To examine these questions in their French and European contexts, Hudson Institute's newly-established Center for European Studies, in conjunction with the Center on Islam, Democracy and the Future of the Muslim World, will hold a panel discussion entitled "France's Riots, Europe's Muslims."

XAVIER GUILHOU
Author, La Fin du Risque Zero

HILLEL FRADKIN
Director, Center on Islam, Democracy and the Future of the Muslim World, Hudson Institute

ROBERT LEIKEN
Director, Immigration and National Security, Nixon Center

JOHN O'SULLIVAN
Director, Center for European Studies, Hudson Institute
Author, recent New Criterion article on Muslims and British national identity

To RSVP, send an email to rsvp@hudson.org or call 202-974-2400.