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August 13, 2021[[link removed]]Wilson Weekly
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Assessing Afghanistan [[link removed]]
[[link removed]]In conversation with Wilson Center President, Director, and CEO Mark Green as part of the Hindsight Up Front initiative [[link removed]] , former National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster observes that “challenges to our security that develop abroad can only be dealt with at an exorbitant cost once they reach our shores.”
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Commemorating Wilson in an Age of Racial Reckoning Update on the Victims of Sinjar: The Need to Locate Thousands of Missing Yezidis
“The reality is that President Wilson is a polarizing historical figure,” says Robin von Seldeneck. President and CEO, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library, “but we are committed to discussing his full story.” “These [Yezidi] women actually didn’t want to be found, not because they wanted to stay with ISIS, but because they didn’t want to lose their children,” observes Peter Galbraith, Assistant Secretary General of the UN in Afghanistan.
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[link removed] [[link removed]] PODCAST | Need to KnowYou Really Ought to Know More About Canada
Canadian American Business Council CEO Scotty Greenwood celebrates the “uncommon friendship” between two nations that share “common ground” as well as the world's longest international border—and also the launch of Wilson's new Canusa Street podcast [[link removed]] .
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NOW Logo [[link removed]]The Importance of Supply Chains: What You Need to Know
Can stakeholders offer key solutions to supply chain threats? Duncan Wood, Vice President for Strategy & New Initiatives and Senior Advisor to the Mexico Institute lays out a new initiative to engage governments, private industry, academia, and non-profit research centers to mitigate the economic and national security risks of failing supply chains.
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Wilson In the News
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The Heat: Beijing Olympics 2022 (CGTN America) [[link removed]]
“The biggest celebratory factor for Japan was that the world did come together,” says Shihoko Goto. “There was no major misstep.”
Why National Security Agencies Must Analyze Climate Risks (Lawfare) [[link removed]]
Sheri Goodman observes that “even in places where climate change has not sparked conflicts directly, it looms as a threat multiplier, exacerbating competition for food and water and worsening ethnic tensions.”
Life After Genocide: Why Near-Failed States Struggle With ‘Normalcy’ (National Interest) [[link removed]]
“Persistent security concerns aside,” writes Hallam Ferguson, “America got the rebuilding part of Iraq’s genocide recovery right.”


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