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April 7, 2023[[link removed]]Wilson Weekly
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Get Tougher on Fentanyl and Bolster US-Mexico Crime Collaboration [[link removed]]
[[link removed]]“Washington and Mexico City should prioritize an urgent initiative to significantly improve bilateral collaboration, working to overcome the past reluctance of Mexico’s president. The initiative and any new agreement should address forthrightly issues that have been holding back US-Mexico anti-crime cooperation.” -Earl Anthony Wayne
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MENA Turbulence Slows the Abraham Accords, but Wind Still at their Back Finland Joins NATO Security Alliance
“The Abraham Accords process between Israel and several Arab states, which was sponsored by the Trump administration, then endorsed by President Biden, has run into two challenges simultaneously. First is the Chinese-brokered Saudi Arabia-Iran diplomatic rapprochement, and second, Israel’s hardline approach to Palestinians in the West Bank and Jerusalem... The Accords will survive both.” -James Jeffrey “Finland dealt with its own Russian invasion during the Winter War. The Russian invasion of Ukraine strikes a particular note with Fins as a result of this history. Putin gravely miscalculated when it invaded Ukraine. His brutal actions have driven support for NATO within Finland to 83 percent.” -Jason Moyer of the Global Europe Program
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[link removed] [[link removed]] Podcast | Need to KnowIntroduction to the Farm Bill
“This year’s farm bill is being discussed as a big vehicle for some conservation priorities from the administration and the Democratic side. One of the things they focus on is trying to make these conservation programs not required but instead encouraged.” - Deputy Director of Congressional Relations Erin Jarnagin
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McCarthy Meets with President of Taiwan Rethinking the Power of Money
“For Kevin McCarthy, he’s out there at the Reagan Library with a number of Democratic and Republican members of the Select Committee on China, and they want to show China itself—but also the American people—that they are uncowed by China’s many threats.” -Robert Daly Seismic shifts in the international order are challenging US dominance and extending well beyond the political and security realms, to impact the financial sphere. In a new collection of essays, the Wilson Center’s Geoeconomics Initiative and the Digital Assets Forum reimagine how money could shape the emerging global financial order.
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NOW Logo [[link removed]]Confronting Saddam Hussein: Invasion of Iraq a Tale of "Fear, Power, and Hubris"
“One of the things that I really found surprising when I looked carefully at the documents and talking to the policymakers, was the acknowledged role of George W. Bush as the key decision maker... the journalistic literature I thought overstated the role of neoconservatives, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld.” - Melvyn P. Leffler, American history professor and author
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Upcoming Events
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The Brazil 100 Conference: A Look Into Lula's First 100 Days [[link removed]]Monday, Apr. 10 // 12–1:30 pm (ET)
China’s Climate Security Vulnerabilities [[link removed]]Tuesday, Apr. 11 // 9:30–11:00 am (ET)
Ukraine’s Cultural Response to War | A Collaboration with PBS’s Culture Quest [[link removed]]Wednesday, Apr. 12 // 1–2:30 pm (ET)
The Ninth Annual Nancy Bernkopf Tucker Memorial Lecture on US-East Asia Relations [[link removed]]Wednesday, Apr. 12 // 4–5:30 pm (ET)
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Wilson In the News
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Op-ed: Biden’s Arctic Drilling Go-Ahead Illustrates the Limits of Democratic Problem Solving (Environmental Health News) [[link removed]]
“To balance a diverse set of goals, he found compromise. He endorsed drilling, even as his administration is investing massive amounts into the development of a fossil-fuel-free economy. If this were any conventional policy challenge, his judgment would be hailed as masterful. But there’s nothing conventional about this crisis.” -Ruth Greenspan Bell
Kevin McCarthy to Meet with Taiwan's President Despite Warnings (NewsNation) [[link removed]]
“We’ve had a long history of having strategic ambiguity, and you will note that every time that President Biden has said we’d come to Taiwan’s defense, he’s also had his people backtrack that and say we aren't changing our commitment to our one-China policy.” -Mark Kennedy
Taiwan’s President Visits US as Macron Touches Down in Beijing (PRI) [[link removed]]
“Xi and Putin are in very strong agreement, and in something close to an alliance, because neither of them wants to have their countries shaped by the United States. They see the United States as a twilight power that is clinging in a way that is dangerous and deluded to hang onto what’s left of its hegemony.” -Robert Daly
Experts Say It'll Be 'Very Difficult' to Get US Reporter Out of Russia (Scripps News) [[link removed]]
"We've been trying to negotiate a deal with Paul Whelan, who has also been charged with espionage, and that hasn't happened. The charge of espionage is really a much greater charge in the Russian Federation than other charges, and I think that will make it very difficult to make a deal to get this journalist out." -William Pomeranz


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