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Africa: Year in Review 2024 [[link removed]]
Thursday, Feb. 6 // 10:30 am–12:00 pm (ET)
Join the Wilson Center Africa Program to commemorate the 10th anniversary of its annual Africa: Year in Review publication.
Each year, the Wilson Center Africa Program partners with African and US-based policymakers, practitioners, scholars, and experts to publish a series of impactful essays reflecting on the most important developments across the African continent, in US-Africa relations, and on Africa’s role in the global arena over the past year.
The Africa: Year in Review 2024 launch event will examine the key successes and challenges of the past year as highlighted by the contributors to this year’s edition. Their insights provide guidance to policymakers and the public on how recent events will impact US-Africa relations going forward. The event’s featured panelists will discuss a wide range of interconnected topics, exploring key issues in African governance, economic growth, peace and security, and humanitarian and development assistance.
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STILL TO Come THIS WEEK
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Donald Trump's Second Term: Thinking Through the Transition [[link removed]]Monday, Feb. 3 // 10–11:00 am (ET)
This discussion of the transition from the Biden to the Trump administration will feature two leading thinkers on foreign policy and economic statecraft, Will Ruger and Eddie Fishman. They will address questions of continuity and discontinuity; the role of economic sanctions in American foreign policy; and the overall priorities the Trump administration has toward Russia and Ukraine.
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Security in Focus: Poland’s EU Presidency and the Transatlantic Alliance in 2025 [[link removed]]Monday, Feb. 3 // 2–3:15 pm (ET)
On January 1, 2025, Poland assumed the EU Council Presidency at a time of heightened security challenges, including the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, foreign election interference, and persistent hybrid attacks targeting Europe’s critical infrastructure. Poland’s primary focus will be to bolster Europe’s security and defense, with an emphasis on strengthening cooperation with the United States. This raises important questions about the common and divergent security challenges across the Atlantic. What impact could the EU’s growing role as a security provider have on the transatlantic relationship and the NATO alliance?
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Hotel Lux: An Intimate History of Communism's Forgotten Radicals [[link removed]]Monday, Feb. 3 // 4–5:30 pm (ET)
Hotel Lux follows Irish radical May O’Callaghan and her friends, three revolutionary families brought together by their vision for a communist future and their time spent in the Comintern’s Moscow living quarters, the Hotel Lux. Historian Maurice Casey reveals the connections and disconnections of a group of forgotten communist activists whose lives collided in 1920s Moscow: a brilliant Irish translator, a maverick author, the rebel daughters of an East London Jewish family, and a family of determined German anti-fascists.
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Report Launch | Ten Political Risks for Mexico in 2025 [[link removed]]Tuesday, Feb. 4 // 9–10:30 am (ET)
This report analyzes the ten key risks that could impact the business environment and democratic governance in Mexico in 2025. The analysis is based on Integralia's methodology, which evaluates each risk's potential impact and likelihood using quantitative and qualitative indicators. Each risk has a distinct probability of occurrence, which may shift through the year.
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Book Talk | Punishing Putin: Inside the Global Economic War to Bring Down Russia [[link removed]]Tuesday, Feb. 4 // 12–1:00 pm (ET)
Punishing Putin: Inside the Global Economic War to Bring Down Russia uncovers how the United States and its allies responded to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine with an unprecedented series of economic sanctions designed to degrade Russia’s war machine. From freezing its currency reserves to confiscating the mega yachts of Russian tycoons and manipulating the global price of oil, Baker explores how the West unleashed a new era of economic warfare.
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North American Trade War? The Geopolitical Impacts for China and the United States [[link removed]]Thursday, Feb. 6 // 10:30 am–12:00 pm (ET)
In response to what it calls a national emergency; the Trump administration has imposed sweeping tariffs—25% on imports from Mexico and Canada and 10% on imports from China—to pressure its trade partners on migration and fentanyl trafficking. These measures have sparked strong reactions from Mexico, Canada, and China, raising concerns about escalating economic tensions and the future of global trade. Join the Mexico Institute, Canada Institute, and Kissinger Institute online for a timely discussion on the immediate and long-term implications of these tariffs
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Russian Media in Exile Find Global Relevance [[link removed]]Thursday, Feb. 6 // 12–1:00 pm (ET)
In this discussion, leading independent Russian journalists will discuss their latest investigations into how Russia successful evades the sanctions, how Russian intelligence agencies targeted Americans in Afghanistan, and what happened with the assets of Western companies that were forced to leave Russia following the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
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Brief: New Executive Order on Cryptocurrency and Financial Innovation [[link removed]]Thursday, Feb. 6 // 3–4:00 pm (ET)
Within 72 hours of returning to the White House, President Donald Trump issued a landmark Executive Order aimed at reshaping US cryptocurrency policy and positioning America as a global leader in digital assets, blockchain innovation, and financial technology. To break down the significance of this executive action, the Wilson Center’s Digital Assets Forum is hosting a briefing to analyze its impact, explore what is changing, and discuss how this directive could influence US fiscal and monetary policy moving forward.
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