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Upcoming Events
Webcast
A Discussion with Pedro Aspe on the future of Mexico’s Economy
February 08, 2012 // 9:30am — 11:00am
Book Launch--The Swing Vote: The Untapped Power of Independents
February 09, 2012 // 4:00pm — 5:30pm
Wilson Center Experts
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Robin Wright // Journalist and Author of seven books, most recently "Rock the Casbah: Rage and Rebellion Across the Islamic World"
Robin Wright is a journalist, author and foreign policy analyst. Wright is currently a USIP-Wilson Center Distinguished Scholar. During her... -
Zahid Hussain is an award-winning journalist and writer. He is a correspondent for The Times of London and The Wall Street Journal. He also has... -
Caryle Murphy // Freelance journalist; author of Passion for Islam; and former reporter, The Washington Post
An independent, freelance journalist, Caryle Murphy was a long-time reporter for the Washington Post, covering both domestic and international... -
Irene Kyriakopoulos // Distinguished Professor of National Security Policy, Dept. of Economics, Industrial College of the Armed Forces, National Defense University
Irene Kyriakopoulos, PhD, is Distinguished Professor of National Security Policy, Department of Economics, Industrial College of the Armed Forces,... -
An American who has worked for Agence France-Presse news agency since 1980 with postings in Paris, Bangkok, Kuwait, Sarajevo, Bonn, Berlin and... -
Aaron David Miller // Former Advisor to six Secretaries of State on Arab-Israeli negotiations, 1978-2003.
Aaron David Miller became a Public Policy Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in January 2006, where he wrote his fourth... -
Amy Wilkinson is a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and a senior fellow at Harvard University in the... -
John W. Sewell is a Senior Scholar at The Wilson Center. His current research analyses how globalization has affected the American national...
Reaching Out at Rio: Population Growth, Family Planning, and Environmentalists
February 22, 2012 // 12:00pm — 2:00pm
While recognition of the connections between population growth and environmental impact is growing, they are still poorly understood by both the environmental and family planning communities. Join us for a panel, composed of expert communicators well-versed in both reproductive health and environmental "languages," that will conduct a frank but nuanced discussion of the linkages and the challenges of communicating them. more
Apply for the Summer 2012 Nuclear Boot Camp
Feb 20, 2012
Aimed at building a new generation of experts on the international history of nuclear weapons, the second-annual Nuclear Boot Camp will be hosted by the University of Roma Tre and the Machiavelli Center for Cold War Studies (CIMA) in the village of Allumiere near Rome, Italy for ten days in the last half of June 2012. more
Competitiveness, Jobs, and the U.S.-Mexico Economic Relationship
February 14, 2012 // 9:00am — 11:00am
The Mexico Institute invites you to the launch of the report, Working Together: Economic Ties between the United States and Mexico, with Carla Hills, Roberto Newell, Robert Pastor, Ralph Watkins and the author, Christopher Wilson more
Apply for the Summer 2012 Nuclear Boot Camp
Feb 20, 2012Aimed at building a new generation of experts on the international history of nuclear weapons, the second-annual Nuclear Boot Camp will be hosted by the University of Roma Tre and the Machiavelli Center for Cold War Studies (CIMA) in the village of Allumiere near Rome, Italy for ten days in the last half of June 2012.
Call for papers: France and the German Question
Feb 06, 2012Call for papers for "France and the German Question, 1945-1990," February 7-9, 2013
Efforts to Stop Iran from Developing a Nuclear Bomb
Feb 06, 2012Public Policy Scholar Aaron David Miller and USIP-Wilson Center Distinguished Scholar Robin Wright discuss diplomatic efforts to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons and the possibility of armed conflict, on the Diane Rehm Show. They are joined by Karim Sadjadpour, an associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Reaching Out at Rio: Population Growth, Family Planning, and Environmentalists
February 22, 2012 // 12:00pm — 2:00pm
While recognition of the connections between population growth and environmental impact is growing, they are still poorly understood by both the environmental and family planning communities. Join us for a panel, composed of expert communicators well-versed in both reproductive health and environmental "languages," that will conduct a frank but nuanced discussion of the linkages and the challenges of communicating them.
Competitiveness, Jobs, and the U.S.-Mexico Economic Relationship
February 14, 2012 // 9:00am — 11:00am
The Mexico Institute invites you to the launch of the report, Working Together: Economic Ties between the United States and Mexico, with Carla Hills, Roberto Newell, Robert Pastor, Ralph Watkins and the author, Christopher Wilson
A Discussion with Pedro Aspe on the future of Mexico’s Economy
February 08, 2012 // 9:30am — 11:00am
The Woodrow Wilson Center’s Mexico Institute cordially invites you to the latest “Dialogues with Mexico” discussion with Pedro Aspe, CEO of Protego and Mexico’s former Secretary of Finance.
Innovation and Development in Mexico: The Promising Road Ahead
Despite the tenuous state of public security in Mexico and the impact the U.S. economic recession has had on the country, Mexico has been successful at boosting its economic performance, while at the same time demonstrating innovation in its agricultural, aerospace, automobile manufacturing and energy sectors.
Leaving Iraq: Mission Accomplished?
Rajiv Chandrasekaran, the Washington Post’s national editor and current public policy scholar at the Wilson Center; James Zogby, the founder and president of the Arab American Institute
The Price of Freedom and Democracy: Bahrain and the Arab Spring
Nabeel Rajab, winner of the 2011 Ion Ratiu Democracy Award; Indrei Ratiu, director of the Ratiu Democracy Center
The Future of Progressive Politics
Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher of The Nation magazine.
