Wilson Weekly
November 8, 2019

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Berlin: The Border and Memory

Photo Gallery

On the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, our interactive feature allows two witnesses -- Wilson Center alumna and George Washington University professor Hope M. Harrison and noted photographer Steve Weinberg – to survey the ripples of this momentous event over three decades.

Hope M. Harrison’s new book– After the Berlin Wall: Memory and the Making of the New Germany, 1989 to the Present – is now available from Cambridge University Press.


Fulbright Arctic Initiative: Research and Policy Findings for Sustainable Arctic Communities and Economies

Video & key quotes

Fulbright Arctic Initiative participants presented research findings and selected policy recommendations at this Wilson Center symposium. This collaborative work – pursued over 18 months – focused on supporting health and well-being to ensure development of pathways to thrive in Arctic communities, as well as addressing scales of risk, from local to global, to enhance the region’s economic sustainability.


China in Africa Case Study: Zambia

Wilson Center NOW

Southern Voices Network for Peacebuilding Scholar Emmanuel Matambo spoke with Wilson Center NOW about China's relations and investment in Zambia. Matambo’s research focused on how this relationship has shaped politics and recent elections in Zambia, and how China’s influence there compares with its economic investment and political influence in other African nations.

 

Fall WQ Issue: Borders and Beyond

The gap between the political rhetoric and the realities of our borders has never been wider. What is the future of borders – for nations and those who must traverse them? Our new issue of The Wilson Quarterly examines why and how international borders are changing in places including the United States, Syria to Guatemala. The articles also survey the effects of these border transformations on our politics, our policies, and on our lives as citizens.

 

 

Wilson in the News

Wilson Center’s Jankowicz on Disinformation & How to Counter It (Defense and Aerospace Report)

“One thing that we can say doesn’t work is banning things,” says Nina Jankowicz. “We should be looking for ways to preserve the free speech that disinformation so threatens.”

Americans ambushed in Mexico (CNN)

“It seems as though the organized crime groups feel as though they are highly empowered at this point in time,” observes Duncan Wood. “They feel as though they have the upper hand against federal forces in that part of Mexico.”

The Hostage Drama in Iran Drags On – Forty Years Later (The New Yorker)

“The lingering tragedy of the embassy takeover is that Iran has institutionalized hostage-taking over the past forty years,” writes Robin Wright. “Human beings have become pawns, both in Iran’s internal political rivalries and in the tensions between the two capitals.”

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