Wilson Weekly

World Reaction to the Events of January 6th

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.

EVENT | Video & quotes

Monumental Politics: The Spomenici of Former Yugoslavia

“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.”

Blog Post | Asia Dispatches

2021: The Year Ahead in Asia

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.”

Blog Post | New Security Beat

Who Pays the Bill for Plastic Waste?

“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.”

EVENT | Video

Partners of First Resort: America, Europe, and the Future of the West

“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

Asia and the Biden Administration: Challenges & Opportunities

Upcoming Events

The Arctic and World Order

January 12, 2021 // 1pm – 2:30pm

Joe Biden’s Tough Challenges in Iran

January 13, 2021 // 10:30am – 12pm

Is NATO Prepared for the Future? Reflections on NATO 2030: United for a New Era

January 13, 2021 // 2pm – 3pm

Wilson In the News

Biden Faces a Minefield in New Diplomacy with Iran (The New Yorker)

“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)

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)

"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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