Enterprise Diplomacy and US Strategic Goals

Monday, Jan.22 // 4–5:00 pm (ET)

In this era of “great power competition,” economic statecraft and the power of private enterprise have never been more important to our future. Military strength is important, but so many of America’s essential partnerships are driven at least as much by shared economic interests. In terms of our relationships with developing countries, we have much more to offer than authoritarian powers. We want to help countries go from being aid recipients to partners to fellow donors. We want to advance self-reliance and economic freedom, while authoritarians seek to promote dependency and state control.

Our vision for the future will only succeed, however, if our political and diplomatic leaders tap into the power of private enterprise and economic collaboration. We need to work harder to close the gap between the public and private sectors. We need to do more to model our market-based principles and foster economic opportunities in our friends, allies and partners.

Join us for a conversation on the importance of enterprise diplomacy and public-private collaboration in the global arena, featuring Gildenhorn Fellow Senator Roy Blunt and former President of the World Bank Group, David Malpass, followed by a panel discussion.

Still to Come this week

Finland’s Priorities and Challenges in 2024: A Conversation with Minister Anders Adlercreutz

Monday, Jan. 22 // 11:00 am–12:00 pm (ET)

Join us for a conversation with Finland’s Minister for European Affairs and Ownership Steering, Anders Adlercreutz, for a unique discussion on Finland’s priorities and challenges entering 2024. What role will Finland—itself going to the polls to elect a new President in February—have in shaping the future of Europe?

Fragile Victory: The Making and Unmaking of Liberal Order

Monday, Jan. 22 // 4–5:00 pm (ET)

The liberal democratic order that seemed so stable in North America and Western Europe has become precarious. James Cronin argues that liberalism has never been secure and that the international order has had to be crafted, redeployed, and extended since 1945. Cronin emphasizes the links between internal and external politics in its history. Fragile Victory provides the context necessary to understand such diverse challenges as the triumph of Brexit and Trump, the rise of populism, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Ukraine's Development and De-oligarchization Dilemma

Tuesday, Jan. 23 // 3:30–4:30 pm (ET)

Mykhailo Minakov will present results of the de-oligarchization process so far, as well as his perspective of how de-oligarchization will influence the political regime and system in Ukraine.

Japan in the Year 2024

Thursday, Jan. 25 // 9:00 am–12:00 pm

At its 10th annual Japan in the Year conference, the Japan-America Society of Washington DC will partner with the Wilson Center to discuss what’s in store for the year ahead in Japan’s foreign policy and domestic affairs.

Oqlanmagan – The Unexonerated: Film Screening and Discussion

Friday, Jan. 26 // 2–3:00 pm (ET)

In the 1990s, Uzbekistan’s first president Islam Karimov arrested tens of thousands of practicing Muslims, imams, and citizens engaged in Islamic study groups, forcing them to sign pre-written confessions that led to decades in prison on terrorism and treason charges. Following Karimov’s death in 2016, his successor, Shavkat Mirziyoyev, acknowledged for the first time the existence of a blacklist against former prisoners, their social contacts and extended family. Oqlanmagan – The Unexonerated, a documentary sponsored by the Oxus Society, is one of the first attempts to tell the story of more than 18,000 people formerly designated as “extremists” by the Karimov government, This event will feature a screening of the film followed by a discussion.