Nationwide Poll on Iraq War and Its Impact on Future of U.N., Relations With Iran, North Korea to be Released at Press Club

3/27/2003

From: Steven Kull of the Program on International Policy Attitudes, 202-232-7500

News Advisory:

What: National Press Club Morning Newsmaker News Conference

When: Monday, March 31, 2003 9 a.m. -- 10 a.m.

Who: Dr. Steven Kull, director, Program on International Policy Attitudes University of Maryland and the PIPA/Knowledge Networks Poll

Where: National Press Club Murrow Room National Press Building (13th Floor) 529 14th Street, NW (14th & F Streets) Washington, D.C.

Details:

Dr. Steven Kull, director of the Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA), will present the results of a new nationwide PIPA/Knowledge Networks poll examining American attitudes on the war with Iraq. PIPA carries out research on public attitudes on international issues by conducting nationwide polls, focus groups and comprehensive reviews of polling conducted by other organizations.

Dr. Kull is a political psychologist specializing in the study of public and elite attitudes on public policy issues and the principal investigator of numerous in-depth studies of public opinion. Dr. Kull has been interviewed on the News Hour, CNN, NBC, BBC, NPR, the PBS series "Great Decisions," Canada AM, Al Jazeera, C-SPAN, the award-winning documentary "Faces of the Enemy" and other radio and TV news programs. He regularly gives briefings for Congress, the State Department, NATO, the UN and the EU. He is the co-author (with I.M. Destler) of Misreading the Public, The Myth of a New Isolationism (Brookings 1999) He was on the research team of the recent poll of the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations and the German Marshall Fund. His articles have appeared in Foreign Policy, Harper's, Public Opinion Quarterly, The Washington Post and The Christian Science Monitor. Dr. Kull is a faculty member at the School of Public Affairs, University of Maryland, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Association for Public Opinion Research.