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July 2, 2020

Wilson Weekly

Fostering Sustainable Tourism in Latin America
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A new report argues for using sustainable tourism in Latin America as an opportunity to highlight less traveled destinations and to market to growing demographics that value environmentally conscious products and services.



EVENT | VIDEO & QUOTES
USMCA: Launching a New Phase of Prosperity in North America
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“North America must continue to work together to adopt and implement policies that promote competitiveness, create jobs, and encourage investment… USMCA is a great step towards this objective,” says Deputy Under Secretary for International Trade Joseph Semsar.

EVENT | VIDEO & QUOTES
COVID-19 and Latin America's Epidemic of Corruption

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The coronavirus crisis has created new opportunities for corruption across Latin America, from snowballing demand for medical equipment and services to generous stimulus programs, as existing safeguards are bypassed in the name of expediency.


EVENT | VIDEO & QUOTES
Natural Resources, Sustainable Development, and Peace in Africa
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“Peacebuilding is a long process … Africa is rising yes, but there are still spots that can still contain conflicts that might jeopardize the evolution of economic development” states Seydina Ousmane Sene, Senior Economist at Initiative Prospective Agricole et Rurale.

PODCAST | NEED TO KNOW
Deadly Companions - Pandemics Changing History
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In the latest episode of Need to Know , author Dorothy Crawford explains how pandemics shape human actions and civilizations, and why she predicted the very pandemic we are living through today in her 2018 book Deadly Companions: How Microbes Have Shaped Our History .

COLLECTION
DEBRIEF | Russia’s 2020 Constitutional Amendments
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On July 1, Russian voters overwhelmingly passed an amendment that could allow President Vladimir Putin to stay in power until 2036—one of several amendments Putin proposed in January. Check out the Kennan Institute’s analysis of the dynamics that led up to the vote and the implications going forward.

CENTER NEWSNew Arms Control Negotiation Academy seeks to Re-imagine International Security
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This week, six renowned academic institutions, including the Wilson Center’s History and Public Policy Program, join forces and welcome the inaugural cohort of the Arms Control Negotiation Academy (ACONA), a new, highly selective program that will train 16 emerging international security leaders in arms control history, technology, and negotiations with the goal to identify new pathways that can reduce tensions between great powers.


WATCH & LISTEN
How Korea Transformed the Cold War: Fearing the Worst
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Wilson in the News

Is COVID-19 a Game Changer for Transatlantic Narratives on China? (Chatham House)
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Robert Daly writes “COVID-19 has catalysed a new American narrative on China,” but this “Bad China narrative” blinds the United States to China’s complexity and potential for collaboration, and is but one step away from “an almost-inevitable successor narrative…cold war.”

USMCA replaces NAFTA this week. How will it change trade? (Marketplace)
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In an interview, Mexico Institute’s Chris Wilson says that under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement “there will still be free trade across all of North America,” but there are new changes to labor and pay standards and “a new set of rules of origin in the auto sector.”

Floor procedures tightened in pandemic's wake (The Hill)
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Don Wolfensberger writes that emergency restrictions barring floor amendments and debate are taking an enormous toll “on our system of deliberative and representative democracy.”

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