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February 9, 2024[[link removed]]Wilson Weekly
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The Helmut Kohl Transcripts: A New Resource for Post-Cold War History [[link removed]]
[[link removed]]The Helmut Kohl Transcripts are now available on the Wilson Center Digital Archive. Kohl's wide-ranging contacts with world leaders and the many candid conversations recorded provide a detailed view of some of the most notable developments from the 1990s: the Gulf War, the Balkan Wars, the Middle East peace process, diplomacy with Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin, NATO enlargement, among other global issues and challenges.
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The US Congress: Priorities & Challenges in 2024 The Roots and Realities of 10 Conflicts in the Middle East
In this episode of Need to Know , Eddy Acevedo, Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor to the President and CEO of the Wilson Center, discusses the year ahead for the US Congress, detailing priorities it is juggling in addition to appropriations. Acevedo also touches on the role of Congress in shaping foreign policy and talks about the critical need for reliable information for those making public policy decisions. Since the mid-20th century, the Middle East has been a hotspot of volatility, with Israel engaging in wars and facing threats from militias like Hamas and Hezbollah. In this explainer, Robin Wright reviews how conflicts have involved regional and global powers, leading to widespread instability and violence.
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Winter 2024The New Multilateralism
As global alliances make profound shifts, the winter 2024 Wilson Quarterly examines emerging partnerships alongside traditional multilateral institutions to help reveal the strongest combinations. The new issue includes essays, Q&As, and other features touching nearly every region of the world.
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The Rwanda Bill: Testing the Offshore Model Nurdle Minigame
Several European governments are considering the offshoring of illegal immigrants, including the British government. Can it be undertaken without breaking international and domestic law? Is it an effective answer to calls to curb illegal migration? Global Fellow Diana Villiers Negroponte examines the UK’s Rwanda Bill, now making its way through Parliament, to answer these questions and more. Earn your way to level two of the Plastic Pipeline game and you will find this minigame, which puts the player in charge of cleaning up small plastic pellets called nurdles that have gotten loose after a cargo ship lost boxes enroute to a plastic products factory. Your job is to save marine life from being exposed to this pollution through quick action, netting nurdles, and cleaning up our ocean. Test your skills and learn about plastic pollution in the process.
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[link removed] [[link removed]] Event | VideoA Conversation with Mexican Presidential Candidate Xóchitl Gálvez
“Organized crime has taken hold of our territory and our economy in matters never seen before,” says Mexican presidential candidate Xóchitl Gálvez. “Just imagine for a minute that you are a truck driver, and you can’t get from Dallas to Detroit because there are gangs controlling interstate highways. They could mob and kill your drivers and steal your goods. Then those goods are traded in the black market, with the complacency of the authorities.”
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NOW Logo [[link removed]]Israel-Hamas War Update and Analysis
In this edition of Wilson Center NOW Wilson Center Distinguished Fellow Robin Wright discusses the latest developments in the Israel-Hamas war and assesses the impact of regional escalation which has drawn the US deeper into the crisis.
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Israel-Hamas War Update and Analysis
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Upcoming Opportunities
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Martin J. Sherwin Fellowship [[link removed]]Application Deadline: Feb. 15
Kennan Institute Title VIII Pre-Tenure Scholar [[link removed]]Application Deadline Extended: Feb. 15

Upcoming Events
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Is the Belt and Road Initiative Reshaping the Global Order? [[link removed]]Monday, Feb. 12 // 11:00 am–12:00 pm (ET)
Hostage Diplomacy as an International Security Threat: Strengthening our Collective Action, Deterrence and Response [[link removed]]Tuesday, Feb. 13 // 1–4:00 pm (ET)
What's Next for Pakistan, Post-Election? [[link removed]]Wednesday, Feb. 14 // 9:30–11:00 am (ET)
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Wilson in the News
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The US Confronts Middle Eastern Militias But Not Iran’s Long Game (New Yorker) [[link removed]]
“Since the Iranian Revolution—which marks its forty-fifth anniversary this week—the US has never really understood Iranians. It didn’t during the Shah’s era, either, and that is why Washington was surprised by the end of a regime that had been a pillar of its foreign policy.” -Robin Wright
The Cuban Regime’s Triple Threat (The National Interest) [[link removed]]
“Cuba observed sixty-five years since Fidel Castro’s violent seizure of power in 1959. While a new generation of Americans may not realize how dangerous he was, his brand of tyranny is still all too real to so many Cubans and others who continue to suffer today under a brutal dictatorship,” writes Eddy Acevedo, who makes a case for the Havana dictatorship to be held accountable for its destabilizing behavior.
How Upcoming Elections in South Asia Will Test Democracy in the Region (PBS) [[link removed]]
“Quietly, Russia has been a key player in South Asia. It has a close relationship with India, it has a growing relationship with Pakistan, and it also has energy cooperations set up with Bangladesh. The US feels a need to strengthen engagement with the countries of South Asia to push back against this growing influence of China and Russia.” -Michael Kugelman
Latin America’s “Voto Castigo” (The Global Americans) [[link removed]]
“Across Latin America, voters are increasingly casting a ‘punishment vote’ against their elected officials and political elites. This voto castigo reveals the public’s growing frustration with incumbent governments who seem unable—or unwilling—to address the region’s continuing complex challenges,” writes Beatriz García Nice. “Driving this need for voracious change is the people’s desire to exert some control—and using their vote to achieve it.”


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