Have a pandemic and climate change wrongly pushed a third great threat to mankind – nuclear conflict – to the back burner? In his new book, Robert Litwak reminds readers that a nuclear event would be a global game changer—and the risks of that have risen to their highest level since the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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Trump or Biden: What Would it Mean for Latin America and the Caribbean?
Juan Cruz, former senior director for Western Hemisphere Affairs at the NSC, says that while “we need to use all the tools that the U.S. government has at its disposal” to influence Venezuela, there is also “room to reassess” the sanctions regime against that nation.
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Indigenous Midwives
Claire Dion Fletcher, Co-chair of the National Aboriginal Council of Midwives, observes that “being a culturally safe health care provider doesn’t mean you try to be an indigenous midwife, because you can’t do that.”
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Woodrow Wilson Awards to Honor Mnuchin, Lagarde, Crapo and Meeks
On September 30, 2020 the Wilson Center, chaired by Governor Bill Haslam, will present The Woodrow Wilson Awards to The Honorable Steven F. Mnuchin, Her Excellency Christine M. Lagarde, Senator Mike Crapo (R-ID) and Congressman Gregory Meeks (D-NY) at a dinner and ceremony at The Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, DC.
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Whither the Middle East: More Conflict or New Peace?
“Will normalization replace the peace process as we know it?,” asks former U.S. Ambassador to Israel and Egypt Daniel Kurtzer. “No. The issue will never be resolved until there is a territorial component.”
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U.S. Interests and Engagement in the Sahel: Current State, Key Issues, and the Way Ahead
“At the heart of the crisis in the Sahel, I believe, it’s ultimately a crisis of the state’s legitimacy. That is, whether or not citizens perceive that their government is legitimate, equitable, and able and willing to meet their needs,” said Dr. J. Peter Pham, U.S. Special Envoy for the Sahel Region of Africa in this Africa Program event.
Rui Zhong observes that “WeChat and TikTok’s recent trials show how the chief executives in both China and the US have outsize influence over the way modern technologies evolve.”
