Trudeau, Scheer, and the Future of Canada

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“This was an election driven more by events than public policy,” said Nik Nanos, Wilson Center Global Fellow and the founder of Nanos Research.

Iran Hostage Crisis 40th Anniversary

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On November 4, 1979, Iranian students charged into the US embassy in Tehran and took hostage 52 American diplomats and citizens. A panel of US-Iran experts discussed how this 444-day crisis is viewed today and its continuing role in US foreign policy.

Africa in Transition: The Role of Women in Peace and Security

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“You can’t ignore fifty percent of your population,” observed Phillip Carter III, former U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire and Guinea, “and expect to grow economically, socially, peacefully.”

Dreams of Russian Democracy: What Went Wrong?

The end of the Soviet Union held the promise of a new era. So how did Russia journey from perestroika to Putin? In this edition of Wilson Center NOW, we speak with Andrei Kozyrev, former Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation, about his new book, The Firebird: The Elusive Fate of Russian Democracy. Kozyrev’s eyewitness account of the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the struggle to create a democratic Russia under Yeltsin offers a unique window into the rise of crony capitalism and Vladimir Putin.

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U.S.-Africa Economic Relations at the State Level

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Democracies, Dictatorships, and Grand Strategy

Nov. 7, 2019 // 4:00-5:30 pm

After the Berlin Wall: Memory and the Making of the New Germany, 1989 to the Present

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