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Iran Election Update

May 23, 2013
The Middle East Program offers the latest news on the Iranian presidential election of June 2013, based on a selection of Iranian news sources. The Iran Election Update is a daily summary of up-to-date information with links to news in both English and Farsi. It includes the latest developments and analysis of news about the upcoming election.

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Prime Minister of Canada, the Right Honorable Paul Martin, Delivers Significant Policy Address

Apr 29, 2004
On the occasion of his visit to Washington, D.C., the Prime Minister of Canada, the Right Honorable Paul Martin, delivered a significant foreign policy address titled "Canada and the World: Building on Our Values." The full speech is available here.

Confronting Vietnam: Soviet Policy Toward the Indochina Conflict, 1954-63

Apr 28, 2004
On Wednesday, April 28, at 3:30 pm, author Ilya Gaiduk will discuss his new book which argues that the USSR attributed no geostrategic importance to Indochina and did not want the crisis there to disrupt détente. The panel discussion will also feature historians Kathryn Weathersby and James G. Hershberg. This event is open to the public.

U.S. Military Strategy During Uncertainty

Apr 28, 2004
The end of the Cold War ushered the United States into a period of far greater uncertainty. In her research at the Wilson Center, Fellow Emily Goldman is exploring what the United States' military strategy should look like when "threats are low, when the security environment is uncertain, and when the imperatives of the international system are far more indeterminate."

Turkish Cypriot Politicians Want Island Kept Out of European Union

Apr 28, 2004
International Herald Tribune (Middle East/N.Africa edition), Daily Star (Lebanon)

Can Something Come of Nothing?

Apr 28, 2004
Book Review, The New York Sun

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The Wilson Quarterly

The American Quest for Redemption

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From the Oprah Winfrey Network to the White House, the ritual of redemption and starting afresh has a mesmerizing effect on Americans. Bill Clinton did it, and now Lance Armstrong, Tiger Woods, and other celebrities and politicians are trying to follow. Where does the redemptive urge come from? Where is it taking us?

Dialogue

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Way of the Knife

May 22, 2013May 29, 2013

This week on Dialogue at the Wilson Center our guest is Mark Mazzetti, a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter for The New York Times. He is the author of the new book, “The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth.” We also spoke with Curtis Brainard, Editor of The Observatory, the Columbia Journalism Review’s “lens on the science press,” to survey the landscape of science journalism.