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[link removed] [[link removed]]A Marine hands water to evacuees at Hamid Karzai International Airport, Kabul, Afghanistan, Aug. 22, 2021.


Hindsight Up Front: U.S. Policy Priorities in Afghanistan [[link removed]]
Tuesday, Oct. 19 // 3–4:00 p.m. (ET)
Just weeks after the completion of the U.S. military withdrawal, the Biden administration confronts major policy challenges in Taliban-led Afghanistan. These include evacuations, humanitarian assistance, human rights, and terrorism. Many of these issues were discussed on October 9 and 10, when U.S. officials met with Taliban representatives in Qatar.
The latest event of the Wilson Center’s Afghanistan: Hindsight Up Front [[link removed]] initiative convenes a group of former senior U.S. officials to discuss what the top U.S. policy priorities should be in Afghanistan moving forward—and how they can best be achieved.
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Still to Come this Week
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Rogues and Revolutionaries: Young Turks and the Global Order after WWI [[link removed]]Monday, Oct. 18 // 11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. (ET)
In the second GMES seminar this Fall, we host Michael Reynolds and Alp Yenen, who will each present new research on the formation of the modern Middle East during the Ottoman Empire’s collapse and the establishment of post-Ottoman states.
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Launch | The Mosaic Approach: A Critical Minerals Supply Chain Report [[link removed]]Monday, Oct. 18 // 2–3:00 p.m. (ET)
The Wilson Center Supply Chain Initiative [[link removed]] launches a paper that reflects the dialogue sustained by a high-level group of stakeholders in the summer of 2021 and argues that the United States must take a number of key steps to make the critical minerals supply chain more resilient. Join us for an engaging discussion of the challenges and opportunities concluded by this report.
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Book Talk | Putin's Labor Dilemma [[link removed]]Monday, Oct. 18 // 2–3:00 p.m. (ET)
In Putin's Labor Dilemma , Stephen Crowley investigates how the fear of labor protest has inhibited substantial economic transformation in Russia. Putin boasts he has the backing of workers in the country's industrial heartland, but as economic growth slows in Russia, reviving the economy will require restructuring the country's industrial landscape. At the same time, doing so threatens to generate protest and instability from a key regime constituency. However, continuing to prop up Russia's Soviet-era workplaces, writes Crowley, would likely lead to continued economic stagnation, also threatening protest. Hence a political economy stuck between stability and stagnation.
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Divisions: A New History of Racism and Resistance in America’s World War II Military [[link removed]]Monday, Oct. 18 // 4–5:30 p.m. (ET)
America's World War II military was a force of unalloyed good. While saving the world from Nazism, it also managed to unify a famously fractious American people. At least that's the story many Americans have long told themselves. Divisions offers a decidedly different view. Historian Thomas A. Guglielmo argues that the military built not one color line, but a complex tangle of them.
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Britain Alone: The Path from Suez to Brexit | A Discussion with Philip Stephens [[link removed]]Wednesday, Oct. 20 // 10–11:00 a.m. (ET)
Britain Alone is a story of a nation's attempt to reconcile its past and present in a confident national identity—in the description of the American statesman Dean Acheson, to find a role after the end of empire. It is a story of inflated ambition rubbing up against its diminished circumstance, of a glorious past and an unforgiving present, and ultimately of Britain’s effort over many decades to come to terms with its place as an important, but second rank power. It's a story that touches at every turn neuralgic issues of national pride, identity and history.
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Politics and Civil Society in Belarus a Year After Mass Protests [[link removed]]Wednesday, Oct. 20 // 12–1:30 p.m. (ET)
Despite growing tensions in many other parts of the world, the situation in Belarus continues to command global attention. The rigged presidential elections of 2020 and ensuing mass protests have led to increased repression and a violent crackdown on civil society. One year after these momentous events, Aleksandr Lukashenko appears to have weathered the storm and even developed additional institutional responses to ensure his regime’s political survival. Panelists will discuss the unique challenges this crackdown has posed for civil society, what a transfer of power may look like, and how these events have continued to affect Belarus's foreign policy.
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Book Talk | Welp: Climate Change and Arctic Identities [[link removed]]Wednesday, Oct. 20 // 1:30–3:00 p.m. (ET)
Join the Wilson Center’s Polar Institute, with the Dartmouth Institute of Arctic Studies and Hart Leadership Program, for a book talk and panel connecting policy, cultural safety, and food, water and environmental security in the Arctic region.
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Book Talk | The Catacazy Affair and the Uneasy Path of Russian-American Relations [[link removed]]Friday, Oct. 22 // 1–2:00 p.m. (ET)
Lee Farrow’s new book The Catacazy Affair and the Uneasy Path of Russian-American Relations details the life of Constantin Catacazy, Russian Ambassador to the United States from 1869-1871. This book talk will explain the affair as one of the first significant complications between the United States and Russia.
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