Program
Events
Foreign Policy Challenges in 2010: The Islamic Crescent
January 29, 2010 // 9:00am — 10:30am
Experts on U.S. policy in Iran, Pakistan, the Arab-Israeli conflict and U.S. national security discuss current and future U.S. policy in the region.
Foreign Policy Challenges in 2010: The Developing World
January 15, 2010 // 9:00am — 10:30am
In the first session of a two part series, Wilson Center experts discuss policy challenges surrounding the developing world, including migration, development policy, climate change, and conflict resolution.
Resolving Natural Resource Conflicts:A Path to Development and Peace
January 13, 2010 // 11:00am — 12:15pm
Experts discuss how a focus on natural resources, especially water, can bring broader peace to areas of conflict in the panel co-hosted by the Wilson Center on the Hill, ECSP, and the Fetzer Institute.
Gulliver's Troubles: The Obama Administration and the Middle East
December 08, 2009 // 11:00am — 12:15pm
Aaron David Miller, Former Middle East Analyst, Negotiator, and Adviser, U.S. Department of State, and Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center
The Doha Development Round: Lost in Translation?
December 03, 2009 // 11:00am — 12:15pm
Paul Blustein, Journalist in Residence, Global Economy and Development, Brookings Institution; Kent Hughes, Director, Program on America and the Global Economy, Woodrow Wilson Center
Rethinking U.S. National Security Strategy: Restraint and Renewal
November 13, 2009 // 11:00am — 12:15pm
Barry Posen, Ford International Professor of Political Science and MIT Security Studies Program Director, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center; moderator Samuel Wells, Senior Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center
The Road to Copenhagen: Energy Solutions for Emerging Economies
November 05, 2009 // 11:00am — 12:15pm
Technology and innovation will be critical for China, India, and other emerging economies to reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions – and U.S. technology policy can help lead the way, say experts David Irvine-Halliday, Chen Wang, and Anuradda Ganesh.
The Road to Copenhagen: A Brazilian Perspective
October 27, 2009 // 12:00pm — 1:15pm
with Marina Silva,Senator for the Brazilian Amazon State of Acre. Moderated by: Paulo Sotero, Director, Brazil Institute, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
Relighting Lady Liberty's Torch: Challenges to U.S. Immigration Policy
October 22, 2009 // 12:00pm — 1:15pm
with Mae Ngai, Professor of History, Columbia University, and author of Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America; and Arturo Vargas, Executive Director, National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials. Moderated by: Sonya Michel, Director, United States Studies Program, Woodrow Wilson Center.
Living on $2 a Day: A Finance System for the "Bottom Billion"
September 29, 2009 // 12:00pm — 1:15pm
Daryl Collins and Jonathan Morduch share insights from their book about the sophisticated ways by which people living in poverty manage their finances.