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February 19, 2021

Wilson Weekly

Tracing A Movement

Why has the essential role of African-American women in Cold War activism been ignored? In the latest International History Declassified podcast, Georgetown University Professor Dayo Gore says her research reveals a cohort of activists that collectively helped shape and sustain movements of the era.

EVENT | Video & Quotes

U.S. Counter-Drug Policy in the Western Hemisphere: Is it Working?

“Something that has changed in Mexico very significantly over the past decade,” says former CISEN official Alejandro Hope, “is that in terms of drug production, we have shifted increasingly from plant-based substances to synthetic substances.”

EVENT | Video & quotes

Global Perspectives | Turkish-Russian Relations

“Democracy promotion [by the U.S.] will not be welcomed” and may push Turkey closer to both Russia and China, says Habibe Ozdal, Assistant Professor in International Relations at Istanbul Okan University.

New Report

Open Source to the Rescue

Shortages in personal protective equipment at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic were met by virtual networks using open source hardware to fill the demand. A new report from the Open Hardware and COVID-19 Roundtable convened by the Science and Technology Innovation Program (STIP) and the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy at NYU Law explains how it happened.

EVENT | Video

A Conversation with President Francisco Sagasti of Peru

Peru’s interim President has battled a political crisis and COVID-19. He observes that “we need a complete regeneration of the political system, and to return to a situation in which politicians are elected to serve the country, and not to serve themselves.”

PODCAST | NEED TO KNOW

Military Rule Returns to Myanmar

Global Fellow Prashanth Parameswaran says that Myanmar’s decade-long experiment of sharing power with a civilian government has not gone well, and that “the military has effectively decided that it wants to take back control.”

Watch & Listen

The Quest for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the U.S. Workplace

Upcoming Events

Revisiting the Arab Uprisings at 10: Beyond Success and Failure

February 24, 2021 // 11:30am–1pm

Environment, Peace, and Conflict: Opportunities and Risks for the New Administration

February 24, 2021 // 12–1:30pm

Rethinking Brazilian Development: The Political Economy of Democratic Brazil

February 24, 2021 // 2–3:15pm

75th Anniversary of the Long Telegram

February 25, 2021 // 10–11:30am

RED LINE | The Unraveling of Syria and America's Race to Destroy the Most Dangerous Arsenal in the World

February 26, 2021 // 11am–12pm

Wilson In the News

Speaker Pelosi is Right that We Need Commission to Look into Capitol Riot (The Hill)

Wilson Center Director, President, and CEO Jane Harman writes that any commission on the events of January 6, 2021 "should build upon sound recommendations on how to update our idea of the relationship between speech and violence."

Protests Continue in Myanmar After Coup (NPR)

Lucas Myers observes that "the new charges against Aung San Suu Kyi seem designed to ensure that she remains in detention indefinitely."

No, China is Not the EU’s Top Trading Partner (Politico)

"U.S. and European commercial ties with China are akin to a two-lane highway," writes Daniel S. Hamilton, "whereas their commercial ties with each other are more like a twelve-lane Autobahn."

The Death of the Carbon Coalition (Foreign Policy)

"The carbon economy has been in decline for decades," notes Thomas Oatley, "but the knock-on effects in politics are only now becoming visible."

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