North America Events
Privacy and Information Sharing: The Search for an Intelligent Border [Toronto]
November 16, 2010 // 6:30am — 9:00am
Canada Institute
Wesley Wark and Mary Ellen Callahan explored the topic of privacy, information sharing, and security in Canada-U.S. border management at the Toronto launch of the 13th issue in the One Issue, Two Voices series.
The Role of Minority Parties in Congress
November 15, 2010 // 3:00pm — 5:00pm
Congress Project
Former Congressman Robert Walker (R-Pa.), who, as a backbench Member, helped Newt Gingrich engineer the 1994 Republican takeover of the House of Representatives, told a Wilson Center Congress Project seminar audience Nov. 15 that "the chief job of the minority party is to become the majority."
Lecture: Due Process and Detention
November 12, 2010 // 11:30am — 12:30pm
United States Studies
Ruth Wedgwood, Edward B. Burling Professor of International Law and Diplomacy, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
Assessing China's Impact on Canada-U.S. Relations
November 12, 2010 // 8:00am — 2:00pm
Canada Institute
A group of scholars presented papers examining the evolving economic, political, and environmental relationship among Canada, the United States, and China. The papers, which were critiqued at the conference, will form a special issue of International Journal.
Book Launch: The Terrific Rise and Terrible Fall of Ireland's Celtic Tiger: European Debt and the Future of U.S.-style Globalization
November 09, 2010 // 8:30am — 10:00am
Program on America and the Global Economy
David Lynch, Senior Writer, Bloomberg News; Moderator Kent Hughes, Director, Program on America and the Global Economy, Woodrow Wilson Center
U.S.-China Climate Relations in the Run-Up to Cancun
November 05, 2010 // 9:30am — 11:30am
China Environment Forum
High expectations preceding the Copenhagen Climate talks in December 2009 created major disappointment when the talks did not produce a comprehensive agreement on controlling global greenhouse gas emissions. Climate experts stress that expectations for the December talks in Cancun need to be realistic.
Book Launch: Washington's U Street: A Biography
November 02, 2010 // 4:00pm — 6:00pm
United States Studies
Author Blair Ruble, Director, Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson Center; Maurice Jackson, Associate Professor of History, Georgetown University; Moderator Philippa Strum, Senior Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center
New Book Discussion: Daniel Patrick Moynihan: A Portrait in Letters of an American Visionary
October 28, 2010 // 5:30pm — 7:30pm
United States Studies
Author Steve Weisman, Editorial Director and Public Policy Fellow, The Peterson Institute; Commentators: Polly Trottenberg, Assistant Secretary for Transportation Policy; Todd Purdum, Editor, Vanity Fair; Sidney Blumenthal, Journalist and Author
New Book Discussion: The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History
October 25, 2010 // 3:00pm — 5:00pm
United States Studies
Author Samuel Moyn, Professor of History, Columbia University; Commentators Jerry Z. Muller, Professor of History, Catholic University; Rosa Brooks, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Rule of Law and Humanitarian Policy
Book Launch: Pinstripe Patronage: Political Favoritism From the Clubhouse to the White House and Beyond
October 20, 2010 // 4:00pm — 5:30pm
Congress Project
Martin and Susan Tolchin update the question they first raised in a 1971 work, examining how a string of Supreme Court rulings has affected the time-honored practices of rewarding your friends and punishing your enemies.