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June 30, 2023[[link removed]]Wilson Weekly
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What Happens to Prigozhin and the Wagner Group Now? [[link removed]]
[[link removed]]“From Putin’s perspective this crisis is over, however the ramifications and the perceptions that remain are not over, and that will be Putin’s dilemma going forward. How does he deal with a sense of diminished power and diminished authority when that is what he has relied upon throughout his 20+ years in power.”
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Mixed Signals: Is a US-China Cold War Heating Up or Cooling Down? Renewing the Multilateral Development Banks
“China attacks the United States constantly... It's not that they don’t insult us, but they have never personalized it in reference to Joe Biden. Now that it’s personalized it gets a little tougher.” Robert Daly provides prescient insights on the heels of Biden calling Xi Jinping a dictator, and Blinken’s visit to China. Former President of Peru Francisco Sagasti traces the evolution of multilateral development banks and argues that their structures and strategies must be reconsidered to better address 21st century financing requirements. Read more in this new report from the Latin America program.
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Spring 2023Healing the Wounds of Globalization
Can inclusive trade save global economic cooperation or is it just another buzzword? We turn to Jeffrey Kucik, Canada Institute fellow and associate professor at University of Arizona, who specializes in international trade law, to find out. Read more in the latest issue of the Wilson Quarterly .
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Welcome to Blockchain Explained Beyond Collateral Damage: Femicides, Disappearances, and New Trends in Gender-Based Violence in Mexico
In the inaugural Blockchain Explained podcast, we hear from co-hosts Kellee Wicker and Alan Rechtschaffen about why blockchain technology is so important to understand and what you can expect to learn from this new series. Strap in, it’s going to be a wild ride! Gender-based violence is on the rise in Mexico, and the drivers of femicides, sexual violence, and disappearances are evolving, revealing intricate connections between criminal networks, state-sponsored violence, and domestic forms of abuse. Gema Kloppe-Santamaria and Julia Zulver explain.
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NOW Logo [[link removed]]Global Peace Index 2023: Peacefulness Declines For 9th Straight Year
The latest edition of Wilson Center NOW features Michael Collins, executive director of the Institute for Economics and Peace for The Americas. He discusses the newly released 17th edition of the annual Global Peace Index. The world’s leading measure of peacefulness, this new report “reveals the average level of global peacefulness deteriorated for the ninth consecutive year with post-COVID civil unrest and political instability remaining high while regional and global conflicts accelerate.”
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Wilson In the News
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Russian President Vladimir Putin Denounces Wagner Group Leader, Now Exiled in Belarus (WBUR) [[link removed]]
“The timing of this mutiny could not have been worse because it comes just two weeks before the NATO summit, and the big decisions that 30 powerful Western nations will make... and when you think of the venue of the NATO summit, in Vilnius, Lithuania, which is a former Soviet Republic, this in itself is an in-your-face affront to Putin.” -Robin Wright
Prigozhin’s Mutiny Is the Beginning of Putin’s End (Foreign Policy) [[link removed]]
“There is another similarity to World War I that Putin did not mention: corruption and incompetence in the Russian military, as well as the inhumane treatment of its own soldiers. Anger with Russia’s top brass has not been limited to Wagner, and Prigozhin’s rage may well extend to the ranks of the Russian military.” -Lucian Kim
China Owns 380,000 Acres of Land in the US. Here's Where. (NPR) [[link removed]]
"That ability by the government to gain access to information is one of the reasons why people view the risk of dealing with a Chinese corporation similar to what they would view as the risk of dealing with the Chinese Communist Party or the government." -Mark Kennedy
Could a US-backed Afghanistan Have Survived? (Frankly Fukuyama) [[link removed]]
In this probing, nearly hour-long interview with Francis Fukuyama, Asia Program Senior Fellow Nader Nadery reflects on the collapse of the American-backed Afghan state, and the problems he encountered in trying to create a modern Afghan bureaucracy while director of Afghanistan’s civil service under former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani. You’ll want to bookmark this one!


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