Asia
Announcing the Wilson Center's 2013-2014 Pakistan Scholar
May 21, 2013Khurram Husain will arrive in Washington in September 2013 and serve at the Wilson Center until May 2014.
Dialogue @ the Wilson Center Wins Two Telly Awards
May 16, 2013Dialogue at the Wilson Center is the recipient of two 2013 Telly Awards for the episode “Women and the Arab Spring,” featuring Haleh Esfandiari, Hanin Ghaddar, and Yassmine El Sayed Hani and for the episode “Little America: The War Within the War for Afghanistan,” featuring Rajiv Chandrasekaran.
Japan's Disaster Relier Diplomacy: Fostering Military Cooperation in Asia
May 15, 2013Japan scholar Hideshi Futori's paper on Japan's disaster relief diplomacy was published by the East-West Center. The full article can be accessed via: http://www.eastwestcenter.org/publications/japan%E2%80%99s-disaster-relief-diplomacy-fostering-military-cooperation-in-asia
Pakistan's Historic Election Changes Little for U.S. Relations
May 14, 2013Senior Program Associate for South and Southeast Asia Michael Kugelman analyzed the results of the Pakistani elections and how it would affect the U.S. relationship with Pakistan in this video interview with The Washington Post.
Harmony in the Forest: Improving Habitats for Species and People in East Asia
May 30, 2013 // 12:00pm — 2:00pm
In remote Kalimantan, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea, rare species, virgin rain forests, and rich bio-diversity abound, as do abject poverty and steady destruction of natural habitat. But two women, initially interested in researching threatened species, saw the complex and interconnected relationships between the health of the forest and its inhabitants and developed programs that are successfully and sustainably tackling both health and environment issues.
Vision, Innovation, and Action to Address Child Marriage
June 17, 2013 // 2:00pm — 4:30pm
Backdraft: The Conflict Potential of Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation (Report Launch)
May 16, 2013 // 9:00am — 11:00am
Amid the growing number of reports warning that climate change threatens security, one potentially dangerous – but counterintuitive – dimension has been largely ignored. Could efforts to reduce our carbon footprint and lower our vulnerability to climate change inadvertently exacerbate existing conflicts?
Backdraft: The Conflict Potential of Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation
Amid the growing number of reports warning that climate change threatens security, one potentially dangerous – but counterintuitive – dimension has been largely ignored. Could efforts to reduce our carbon footprint and lower our vulnerability to climate change inadvertently exacerbate existing conflicts?
e-Dossier No. 39 - Poland and Romania: The Loyal Republic and the Maverick
CWIHP is pleased to announce the release of fourteen new documents translated into English for the first time. Adam Burakowski introduces this collection drawn from the Archives of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs focused on Poland's troubled relations with Romania. The documents show that interactions within the Soviet Bloc were much more complicated than many analysts have assumed.
Taiwan and the U.S. Pivot to Asia: New Realities in the Region?
With relations between Taiwan and China becoming more stable, cross-strait relations is no longer the hot-button issue in East Asia as it once was. But what does closer ties with China mean for Taiwan's future? Three essays examine the implication of improved bilateral relations.
The Global Farms Race & Context: Israeli Security and the Arab Spring
Michael Kugelman, Senior Program Associate for the Asia Program at the Wilson Center, discusses a new book which he co-edited entitled, The Global Farms Race. We also take a look at Middle East security from the Israeli perspective with, Efraim Halevy, former director of the Mossad and former head of the Israeli Security Council.
Political Change in Burma: A Human Rights Perspective
David Scott Mathieson, senior researcher on Burma in the Asia division of Human Rights Watch.
In Wartime, Congress Must Step Up to Check President
The decision to go to war is the most serious decision a government can make, says former Congressman Lee Hamilton. Its gravity demands cooperation between the executive and legislative branches.