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March 26, 2021[[link removed]]Wilson Weekly
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Surveying Transatlantic Ties [[link removed]]
[[link removed]]What do trade spats, COVID-19 and Brexit mean for the deep economic integration binding Europe and the United States? A new book, The Transatlantic Economy 2021 , offers comprehensive data and headline trends that elucidate this essential relationship’s distinctive nature. Also: The Wilson Center’s book launch event [[link removed]] offers additional insight, analysis, and debate.


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Fortifying the Future: Assessing the Homeland Security Mission in the Decade Ahead Building Back Diplomacy: The Biden Administration Strides into Asia
“That's why you're always seeing drug cartels fighting for control of the borders,” says Rep. John Katko (R-NY). “It's such a lucrative trade …for two reasons: one is the trafficking of drugs., but the other is trafficking of humans. They both go hand in glove.” Shihoko Goto notes that Japan was “greatly reassured” by the Biden administration’s continuance of a hawkish stance on China “as Chinese encroachment in the East China Sea escalates…and challenges with China's economic competition increases.”


NOW Logo [[link removed]]Status of Women in the Middle East and North Africa: Are We Listening?
Celebrating the power of women’s ideas, aspirations and challenges is at the heart of the Middle East Program’s blog Enheduanna [[link removed]] . Hear Merissa Khurma, Program Director, and Haleh Esfandiari, Distinguished Fellow and Director Emerita, discuss a special series published during Women’s History Month.
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Women's Political Leadership in Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine A New Surge at the Southern Border
German Marshall Fund Rethink.CEE fellow Katsiaryna Shmatsina questions the staying power of women’s prominence in Belarus’ democracy movement: “Will it last? When the revolution comes to some sort of logical end?” "Our migration system was really set up to deter single adults," says Mexico Institute Director Andrew Rudman "Usually men. And had more of a law enforcement approach. Now what you have is a humanitarian situation. So we probably need to change our structure... It's a different kind of migration and that requires a different system."


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Building Ocean Resilience in the Face of Climate Change [[link removed]]March 29, 2021 // 9–10:30am
Discussion on a Grand Strategy of Democratic Solidarity [[link removed]]March 29, 2021 // 3:30–4:30pm
Equity, Violence, and the Law: Policing Lessons for Europe and the United States [[link removed]]March 30, 2021 // 10–11am
Women of the Revolution: A Vision for Post-war Yemen [[link removed]]March 31, 2021 // 10–11:30am
Reappraising the "Wild" 90s in Russia: Looking Back After 30 Years [[link removed]]March 31–April 1, 2021 // 10am–12pm
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Wilson In the News
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For Biden, an Anguishing Choice on Withdrawal from Afghanistan (The New Yorker) [[link removed]]
“The differences among long-warring Afghans are so profound,” observes Robin Wright, “that many U.S. officials and experts worry that a deal is either elusive, given the little time left, or unenforceable in the long term.”
Biden Warns North Korea Against Escalation After Suspected Ballistic Tests (AFP) [[link removed]]
Jean Lee says that "North Korea appears to be returning to a familiar pattern of using provocations to raise tensions and garner attention.”
Ceasing Fire: India, Pakistan, and Elusive Peace in South Asia (The Diplomat) [[link removed]]
“I think you could argue that Delhi wants to focus on what is the much bigger and long-term strategic threat,” observes Michael Kugelman. “India cannot afford a two-front war—or even the threat of one.”
How Women in Politics are Targets of Online Abuse (Los Angeles Times) [[link removed]]
“This isn’t something that only happens to conservative or liberal women,” says Nina Jankowicz, describing the results of a Wilson Center study. “It’s not something that only happens to white women. It happens to all women who are in public life.”


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