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January 8, 2021[[link removed]]Wilson Weekly
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World Reaction to the Events of January 6th [[link removed]]
[[link removed]]The world watched as the U.S. Capitol was breached during the certification proceedings of President-elect Joseph Biden’s victory. What are the foreign policy consequences? Is American credibility damaged? Wilson Center experts weigh in.
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Monumental Politics: The Spomenici of Former Yugoslavia 2021: The Year Ahead in Asia
“People see them and feel instantly drawn to them,” says Spomenik Database founder Donald Niebyl about visionary abstract commemorations of WWII in the Balkans. “They may not know why at first.” Experts from the Asia Program and the Korea Center note that “Asia is the locus of the world’s two largest trade agreements, with the United States party to neither the CPTPP nor RCEP.”
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Who Pays the Bill for Plastic Waste? Partners of First Resort: America, Europe, and the Future of the West
“With the global recycling economy in disarray,” write Meg Hassey, Richard Liu & Clare Auld-Brokish, “[nations] must quickly rethink and reboot waste infrastructure and financing to handle their single-use plastic waste.” “The transatlantic relationship is critical to the restoration and strengthening of the global order,” says David McKean, Senior Fellow at the German Marshall Fund. “The rules-based order which has been fraying for years.”
Watch & Listen
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Asia and the Biden Administration: Challenges & Opportunities
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Upcoming Events
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The Arctic and World Order [[link removed]]January 12, 2021 // 1pm – 2:30pm
Joe Biden’s Tough Challenges in Iran [[link removed]]January 13, 2021 // 10:30am – 12pm
Is NATO Prepared for the Future? Reflections on NATO 2030: United for a New Era [[link removed]]January 13, 2021 // 2pm – 3pm
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Wilson In the News
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Biden Faces a Minefield in New Diplomacy with Iran (The New Yorker) [[link removed]]
“Even with a new President,” observes Robin Wright, “U.S.-Iran diplomacy will still be defined by decades of mutual wariness.”
U.S. withdrawing troops from Afghanistan by January 15th, 2021 (Ground Zero) [[link removed]]
Michael Kugelman says that “Biden has never been a supporter of an extended U.S. presence in Afghanistan. I think he wants to get out as much as Trump does.”
Capitol Violence Sparks Social Media Backlash With Trump (Yahoo Finance) [[link removed]]
"I think you can draw a straight line from dis- and misinformation that has really flourished and been engendered by the Trump administration to the events we saw yesterday," says Nina Jankowicz.
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