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October 16, 2020[[link removed]]Wilson Weekly
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Cybersecurity Threats in Space: A Roadmap for Future Policy [[link removed]]
[[link removed]]Space presents new cybersecurity challenges. How best to meet them? Wilson’s Science and Technology Innovation Program recommends looking “beyond historic strategies of deterrence” to embrace “creative and innovative threat solutions” through industrial and international partnerships. The authors conclude that: “American, and global, essential systems depend on such efforts.”


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25 Years After Beijing: Women’s Leadership in the MENA Region The Perfect Weapon: David Sanger Discusses Upcoming HBO Documentary
“If you have initiatives that are not institutionalized, you're going to go nowhere,” says Mehrinaz El Awady, Director of the Gender Justice, Population and Inclusive Development Cluster at the United Nations Economic and Social Commission. “You will have just one-time success and that's it.” “There are two kinds of hacks that we are trying to protect against, each of which requires very different strategies,” says David Sanger, national security correspondent at the New York Times . “One of them is the hacking of infrastructure…and the second is the hacking of minds."


[link removed] [[link removed]] Waging War on Disinformation
Nina Jankowicz testified before the U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, telling legislators that “disinformation is a threat to democracy, no matter what political party it benefits or whether it is foreign or domestic in its source.”


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Rolling Out a Vaccine for COVID-19: Present Prospects and Lessons from the Past Ten Years after Debut, North Korea’s Kim Celebrates Nuclear Accomplishments - And Acknowledges Hardships
Despite rigorous safeguards still in place to protect the public, “even carefully-prepared vaccines can have problems,” says Dr. Peter Salk, President of the Jonas Salk Legacy Foundation. Jean Lee writes that while Kim “acknowledged the hardships the North Korean people are undergoing” in a recent address, he also “sought to pin the blame on circumstances largely beyond his control.”


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Foreign and Domestic Threats to U.S. Election Security
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New START and the Future of US-Russia Arms Control [[link removed]]October 19, 2020 // 10am – 11am
Book Launch | Portraying the Soul of a People: African Americans Confront Wilson’s Legacy From the Washington Stage [[link removed]]October 19, 2020 // 3:30pm – 4:30pm
Force Multipliers? U.S. and Taiwanese Interests in Latin America [[link removed]]October 22, 2020 // 9am – 10:30am
Skills for the Future in MENA's Changing Workforce [[link removed]]October 22, 2020 // 12pm – 1:30pm
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Wilson In the News
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IMF encourages countries affected by COVID to keep spending on safety net (Marketplace) [[link removed]]
Shihoko Goto says that “It will be incredibly difficult for industrialized countries to be able to waive off those debts and just to say: ‘You don’t need to pay us back.'”
Russian Election Meddling Efforts (Washington Journal / C-SPAN) [[link removed]]
“It is nice for Russia to say they aren't going to interfere in the 2020 election,” observes David Shimer, “but they are actively interfering in the 2020 election now.”
VP Debate Highlights Foreign Policy Differences Between Candidates (VOA) [[link removed]]
Robert Daly believes that “the fundamental nature of the relationship [between the U.S. and China]—fundamentally contentious and adversarial—will be the same in a second Trump term or a Biden term.”


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