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March 31, 2023[[link removed]]Wilson Weekly
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20 Years of PEPFAR: Past Successes and Future Potential [[link removed]]
[[link removed]]“This bipartisan program has changed the course of human history in so many ways. It brought essential support and awareness on HIV and AIDS to nearly every part of the world, including so many corners of the world that had been left behind or left without... but our work on and through PEPFAR is far from over.” -Ambassador Mark A. Green
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Leopoldo Lopez Testifies Before Congress on US Support of Democracy, Human Rights The US-Japan Economic Partnership Roadmap Emerges
“In February of 2014, after calling for nonviolent protests against the corrupt and autocratic regime of Nicolás Maduro, I was arrested, sent to a military prison, kept in solitary confinement for almost four years, and sentenced to 14 years of prison.” -Leopoldo Lopez, Public Policy Fellow Trade used to be the biggest source of friction between the United States and Japan. But trade is now emerging as a concern that binds the world’s biggest and third-largest economies. Find out more from Shihoko Goto in her latest article.
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[link removed] [[link removed]] Event | VideoPutin's Concept of International Law
Professor Lauri Mälksoo argues that Vladimir Putin’s recent writings and speeches, along with changes to Russia’s constitution in 2020 and the Russian president’s personal preoccupation with questions of historical memory, reveal that Putin’s interpretation of international law is imperialist.
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Netanyahu Delays Judicial Overhaul Iran’s Dissident Sunni Cleric
“The only chance to annex the West Bank would be by weakening the Supreme Court... The coalition that supports the government is itching to finish the legislation, because under any possible scenario, it seems that the parties of coalition would take a rout, an, utter defeat.” -Guy Laron, senior lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a fellow with the Wilson Center's Kennan Institute and Middle East Program. Molavi Abdolhamid Ismaeelzahi, the most outspoken Sunni cleric in Iran, has demanded an end to theocratic rule but rejected violence as a political tool to achieve it. Aaron Boehm tells us more about Ismaeelzahi’s background, influence, and criticisms against him in his latest article for The Islamists.
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NOW Logo [[link removed]]Gender Equality and Health Equity Through Foreign Policy: A Progress Report
In this edition of Wilson Center NOW, we are joined by Maternal Health Initiative and Canada Institute Fellow Valerie Percival, whose project argues that improvements in gender equality and health equity place societies on pathways to peace and provide for more stable and less corrupt governments.
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Upcoming Events
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Corruption, Accountability and Democracy in Brazil: Challenges and Solutions [[link removed]]
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Cold War Liberation: The Soviet Union and the Collapse of the Portuguese Empire in Africa, 1961-1975 [[link removed]]Monday, Apr. 3 // 4–5:30 pm (ET)
The Cost of Afro-Arab Social Exclusion in MENA [[link removed]]Wednesday, Apr. 5 // 12–1:00 pm (ET)
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Wilson In the News
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US Politicians Must Decide What They Really Want from TikTok (Nikkei Asia) [[link removed]]
“To politicians, though, what distinguishes TikTok is its rare combination of being owned by a Chinese corporation and being an American household name. As a result, its standing in the US-China relationship is akin to dry kindling at a time when hawks are driving the dynamics of the relationship from both sides.” -Rui Zhong, Program Associate, Kissinger Institute on China and the United States
Russia’s New Fan ID Law Seen as New Form of Authoritarian Surveillance (PRI) [[link removed]]
“Protest rallies are prohibited now in Russia, so they are the only community with the chance to protest and they use that for more than 100 percent, so they showed many, many people that you can protest.” -Alena Popova, Galina Starovoitova Fellow
China’s Ties to Honduras Show its Increasing Influence (NewsNation) [[link removed]]
“It's a reflection of the fact that we have a peer competitor, economically, diplomatically, and within a thousand miles of China, militarily. This is another sign of many, that America really is in strategic competition with a peer competitor and needs to pay attention.” -Mark Kennedy, Director, Wahba Institute for Strategic Competition
Biden to Visit Canada for First Time Since Becoming President (PRI) [[link removed]]
“The Canadians would like it to be a longer visit, they’d like to do more things, but it’s been a kind of rush job, not because of anything other than crazy calendars... It goes back to the symbolic value. It’s a way of saying, politics is politics, but there’s something about Canada that I really love.” -Christopher Sands, Director, Canada Institute


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