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October 23, 2020[[link removed]]Wilson Weekly
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The Ends of History [[link removed]]
[[link removed]]The past is always with us, even when governments try to alter or erase it. How does contested history shape politics and culture across the globe – or in the context of the growing racial reckoning in the United States? The Fall 2020 Wilson Quarterly surveys the landscape of historical memory.


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New START and the Future of U.S.-Russia Arms Control Portraying The Soul Of A People: African Americans Confront Wilson’s Legacy From The Washington Stage
Lynn Rusten, Vice President at the Nuclear Threat Initiative, says that the risks of conflict sparked by an accident or miscalculation are underplayed: “There have been a lot of near misses that are concerning.” “The people involved in creation of African American theater, in Washington and in general, were… deeply tied to international intellectual movements,” observes Distinguished Fellow Blair Ruble.


[link removed] [[link removed]] U.S. Administration and Iran Stoke Gulf Arms Race
David Ottaway writes that “a vastly expanded arms race is breaking out in the Persian Gulf” – spurred by U.S. desire to sell warplanes to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the end of a UN-imposed arms embargo on Iran.


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Force Multipliers? U.S. and Taiwanese Interests in Latin America Skills for the Future in MENA's Changing Workforce
Alex L.J Shyy, Deputy Secretary-General of Taiwan’s International Cooperation and Development Fund, says his organization seeks to “encourage government transparency” and “deepen democracy” in the region. Aref Boualwan, Strategy Officer at the World Economic Forum, points to “domain knowledge” as the region’s greatest challenge: “You find brilliant ideas, brilliant engineers doing research, or IT people, but they lack the domain knowledge.”


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African Americans Confront Wilson's Legacy via the Arts Assessing and Managing Nuclear Risks
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Upcoming EVENTS
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Global Perspectives | Japanese-Russian Unbalanced Relations: Expectation and Reality from Abe to Suga [[link removed]]October 27, 2020 // 8am – 9am
Lobbying and Corruption in Democratic Brazil [[link removed]]October 28, 2020 // 12:30pm – 2pm
A Conversation with President Luis Abinader of the Dominican Republic [[link removed]]October 30, 2020 // 10:30am – 11:30am
The Global Digital Divide: Past, Present, and Future [[link removed]]October 30, 2020 // 1pm – 2:30pm
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Wilson In the News
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Russia Faces a Reckoning on Its Periphery (Trend Lines / WPR) [[link removed]]
Matthew Rojansky observes that Russia under Vladimir Putin has “asserted its veto rights over outcomes it doesn’t like in this part of the world… It has made its own bed, and now it must lie in it.”
Changing Cultures in Congress (NILE) [[link removed]]
“Members [of Congress] have almost willingly given up their powers if the leadership can (a) help fund your campaign… or protect you from poison pill or “gotcha” amendments,” says Donald Wolfensberger.
The New World (Dis-) Order? (Milken Institute) [[link removed]]
Wilson Center Director, President, and CEO Jane Harman says “The message to NATO needs to be: ‘Let’s modernize for our common defense, and have the right buffer against Russian aggression.’”


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