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May 29, 2020
Wilson Weekly
To Reopen or Not to Reopen: That is the Border Question
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In this Need to Know episode, Canada Institute Director Christopher Sands assesses how America’s northern neighbor is tackling the recommencement of its economic activity – and possible effects on North America’s supply chains.
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Violent Non-State Actors and COVID-19: Challenge or Opportunity?
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Deputy Director of the Asia Program Michael Kugelman observes that “the coronavirus poses a small challenge for the Taliban, but it offers a much larger opportunity.”
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Healthcare in a Post-COVID-19 Brazil: Pathways for Public-Private Partnerships
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Leandro Fonseca, former director of Brazil’s National Agency of Supplemental Health, says Brazilians are “becoming aware that prosperous nations are the ones who provide better health care for their populations.”
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Zelensky’s First Year in Office: Successes, Failures, and Outlook for the Future
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“There have been no major concessions to the Kremlin so far,” says Mikhail Minakov, Kennan Institute Senior Advisor on Ukraine, about the fears of some who did not support Volodymyr Zelensky in last year’s poll.
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A Pandemic of Violence: COVID-19 and Gender-Based Violence
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COVID-19 has led to a shadow pandemic of domestic violence and rising femicide in some parts of the world. A panel of global experts assesses the scope of the problem and possible solutions.
WATCH & LISTEN
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Chaos in Afghanistan Dims Hopes for Peace
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Wilson in the News
Now Is the Time for Latin America’s Renewable Energy Boom (Americas Quarterly)
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In a co-authored piece, Anders Beal urges that a “longer-term economic recovery” in Latin America “should place a greater emphasis on the role of renewable energy.”
Estonia Already Lives Online—Why Can’t the United States? (The Atlantic) [[link removed]
]Nina Jankowicz observes that after a Russian DOS attack in 2007, “some media and banking sites were overwhelmed, but Estonians’ personal data was not compromised.”
The Coronavirus and the US-Russia-China Triangle (The National Interest)
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Stapleton Roy says that after 2014, the United States has fostered a natural process that “pushed Russia into a closer embrace with Beijing than the Russians are comfortable with.”
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