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August 26, 2022[[link removed]]Wilson Weekly
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Ripples of War | Six Months Since Russia’s Invasion into Ukraine [[link removed]]
[[link removed]]“Europe has a new threat perception. It’s changing to meet it. Individual countries are changing to meet it. And to look ahead, this is where they need to double down on many of the things that they are doing to affect that change, not only to support Ukraine...but to strengthen their own security at home.” -Robin Quinville, director of the Wilson Center’s Global Europe Program.
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Ukraine’s Defensive Strategy Against Russia Will Ukrainian Refugees Return Home?
“Now it's really about which side can generate forces that are capable, and well-organized and effective. And in that regard, I think that Ukraine, with our continued support, is going to prevail.” -Ret. General David Petraeus “Ukrainians who have left the country are mainly women between 30 to 39 years old with children and with elderly parents... Now everyone has realized that the war may drag on, so women are starting to settle abroad, looking for apartments, jobs, and schools for their children.” -Kateryna Odarchenko explains the implications of this dilemma in the latest Focus Ukraine blog.
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Summer 2022Saving the Artwork of Ukraine
“A new challenge in this war is the need to protect digital culture,” writes Michelle Young, professor of architecture at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation. Her article in the recent Wilson Quarterly also contrasts current efforts in Ukraine with those to preserve art in Europe during WWII.
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Remembering the Rohingya Opium Poppy Cultivation in Afghanistan Appears to Be Declining—At a Cost
“Now that ample time has passed since the crackdowns and migrations of 2017, the Rohingya—as always—have faded from the headlines. And yet their plight remains troubling.” -Michael Kugelman’s 2019 blog is hauntingly relevant as the world marks five years since the Rohingya's exodus from Myanmar. “Even though observers say the Taliban have broken many of its other pledges—on matters like the role of women in society and tolerance for diversity of opinion— the ‘poppy pledge’ may be one they’re serious about trying to keep.” -Wilson Center President and CEO Mark Green explains why that isn’t purely positive.
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NOW Logo [[link removed]]Southern Voices Network for Peacebuilding Roundtable
Eighty percent of Kenya is arid or semi-arid land. The average age of small holder farmers, who account for 70 percent of the country’s agriculture production, is 60 years. These are just some of the factors threatening food security in the East African nation. John Milewski discusses challenges and solutions with Southern Voices Network for Peacebuilding scholars Florence Odiwuor and Hyginus Banko Okibe.
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Upcoming Events
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Homeland: A Special Screening and Conversation About Afghanistan, One Year After the Taliban Takeover and U.S. Withdrawal [[link removed]]Tuesday, Aug. 30 // 11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. (ET)
Pioneering Space Force: A Fireside Chat with General John W. "Jay" Raymond [[link removed]]Wednesday, Aug. 31 // 1–2:00 p.m. (ET)
200 Years of Bilateral Relations: The Perspective of the US Ambassadors [[link removed]]Tuesday, Sept. 13 // 3:30–5:00 p.m. (ET)
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Wilson In the News
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William Pomeranz on the six-month anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine (C-Span) [[link removed]]
“We have had wars of attrition in history—WWI, the Civil War—and it just requires the political will to stay the course. You don’t know when you will get the break, when the other side will collapse or fall apart. And it’s uncertain. That’s where we are right now.” -William Pomeranz, Director of the Kennan Institute, on Washington Journal.
Who’s Winning the Sanctions War? (Foreign Policy) [[link removed]]
“The overall sanctions package did have a substantial economic impact... But as sanctioned countries so often do, Russia has resorted to three main sanctions defense strategies to contain those costs: alternative trade partners, sanctions busting, and domestic offsets.” -Read more from Global fellow Bruce Jentleson
Balance of Power: India and Pakistan Mark 75 Year Independence (Bloomberg) [[link removed]]
“I think it can best be described as an uneasy stability between the two, in the sense that they’re not about to fight each other anytime soon, but they do have nuclear weapons, which they didn’t have until the late 1990s, and that I think is really why it is such a fraught relationship.”-Asia Program deputy director Michael Kugelman


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