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October 30, 2020[[link removed]]Wilson Weekly
Strengthening the Cyber Resilience of North American Energy Systems [[link removed]] [link removed] [[link removed]]
[[link removed]]Cyber threats to the power grid and oil and natural gas systems in North America are rapidly intensifying. Yet in a time of increasing integration, efforts inside borders are insufficient. A new paper argues that Canada, Mexico, and the U.S. must deepen their collaboration against these threats.
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Japanese-Russian Unbalanced Relations: Expectation and Reality from Abe to Suga Negotiating Peace: Lessons from the Western Balkans
“Does the Suga administration have a realistic approach [to peace] with Russia? Of course not. Why not? Because former Prime Minister [Abe] has exhausted this approach with no result,” observes Akihiro Iwashita, Director of Hokkaido University’s Slavic-Eurasian Research Center. “One of the lessons that was very clear to me [in 1995] is that you can’t heal a country if the international community is divided,” says Carl Bildt, former UN Special Envoy to the Former Yugoslavia. “It simply doesn’t work.”


[link removed] [[link removed]] Podcast | Need to KnowAfrica and the COVID-19 Challenge
Africa Program Director Monde Muyangwa says unfulfilled predictions of a pandemic catastrophe on that continent are “rooted in a stubborn refusal to see anything positive coming out of Africa.”


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Lobbying and Corruption in Democratic Brazil A Conversation with President Luis Abinader of the Dominican Republic
“It has been very hard for the U.S. government to figure out who is not disclosing,” says Anya Prusa, Wilson Center Slater Family Fellow. “It's much easier to go after the people who are already reporting.” President Luis Abinader stated that his country needs “to prioritize the relationship with the United States…They know that we share the same values of democracy, the same values of working for transparency and fighting corruption.”


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The Ends of History and Russia's Lost War: Wilson Quarterly Fall 2020
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Upcoming EVENTS
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Elections in the Time of COVID-19: Brazilian Edition [[link removed]]November 2, 2020 // 2pm – 2:45pm
The Korean Peninsula After the U.S. Election [[link removed]]November 5, 2020 // 8am – 9:10am
Local Elections and the Future of Local Self-Governance in Ukraine [[link removed]]November 5, 2020 // 10am – 11:30am
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Wilson In the News
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No matter who wins the election, disinformation will still poison our democracy (Washington Post) [[link removed]]
Nina Jankowicz observes that no matter who takes the prize in Tuesday’s election, the damage created by disinformation outlets “will keep on seeping into our lives and undermining our institutions.”
Global Pandemic: Russia Knows We Know And They Don’t Care (Fox News Radio) [[link removed]]
“What our intelligence community knows [about Russian electoral interference] and what has been reported are probably two different things,” says Matthew Rojansky.
Trump Or Biden: Who Is Better For India? (ET Now) [[link removed]]
“I don’t think there’s any bad outcome for India, regardless who wins the election,” says Michael Kugelman. “Either candidate will work well for U.S.-India relations.”
The October (or November) Surprise Neither Trump Nor Biden Wants [[link removed]]
Wilson Center Director, President, and CEO Jane Harman says that risks to U.S. interests require “an intelligence and national-security process that can sort bluff and feint from real-deal threats — dross from gold.”


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