Elections
The Wilson Center and Elections
The Culture of Congress, Yesterday and Today
April 30, 2012 // 3:00pm — 5:00pm
Many have commented on how much Congress has changed over the last 40 years for a variety of reasons, most noticeably from the increasing importance of political parties in the legislative process and their increased polarization from each other. In this roundtable discussion, former Members, congressional staff and area political scientists will discuss the ultimate question of whether there is any way to restore a greater measure of deliberation and bipartisan national problem-solving. more
e-Dossier No. 33 - North Vietnam's "Talk-Fight" Strategy and the 1968 Peace Negotiations with the United States
Apr 16, 2012
CWIHP is pleased to announce the addition of 13 new documents to its online Digital Archive. The newly translated documents released today reveal the Vietnamese Communist Party's "Talk-Fight" negotiation strategy, first described by First Secretary Le Duan in a 1965 speech and put into action during initial 1968 peace talks. more
Mexico Institute in the News: Obama Keeps Eye on U.S. Politics at Latin America Summit
Apr 13, 2012
President Barack Obama attended a summit in Latin America that may have as much resonance in domestic politics as in hemispheric economics. Discussions at the meeting of North and South American leaders in the resort city of Cartagena, Colombia, covered trade, economic growth and the battle against drug trafficking. more
Mexico Institute in the News: Obama Keeps Eye on U.S. Politics at Latin America Summit
Apr 13, 2012President Barack Obama attended a summit in Latin America that may have as much resonance in domestic politics as in hemispheric economics. Discussions at the meeting of North and South American leaders in the resort city of Cartagena, Colombia, covered trade, economic growth and the battle against drug trafficking.
Latin American Program in the News: Support, But Some Disappointment, as Obama Heads to Americas Summit
Apr 13, 2012President Obama travels to Colombia for the Sixth Summit of the Americas. Our experts discuss Obama's leadership in the region and possible topics to be covered at the Summit.
Latin America Program in the News: U.S. on more equal footing with neighbors as Obama heads to Summit of the Americas
Apr 13, 2012President Obama travels to a weekend summit of the hemisphere’s leaders Friday as the head of a nation that remains in many ways the economic envy of its closest neighbors, but also one whose influence is on the wane in a rising region...
Mexico Institute in the News: The Politics of Exports and Jobs
Mar 29, 2012Rick Santorum proposes negotiating several free trade agreements in the first year of Presidency, even though he was against the NAFTA back in 1993.
The Culture of Congress, Yesterday and Today
April 30, 2012 // 3:00pm — 5:00pm
Many have commented on how much Congress has changed over the last 40 years for a variety of reasons, most noticeably from the increasing importance of political parties in the legislative process and their increased polarization from each other. In this roundtable discussion, former Members, congressional staff and area political scientists will discuss the ultimate question of whether there is any way to restore a greater measure of deliberation and bipartisan national problem-solving.
Cancelled: Dialogues with Mexico/Diálogos con México: Challenges and Opportunities for Mexico’s PRI in 2012
March 27, 2012 // 8:30am — 10:00am
The Woodrow Wilson Center's Mexico regrets to inform you that the latest installment in the ongoing series, "Dialogues with Mexico/Diálogos con México:Challenges and Opportunities for Mexico’s PRI in 2012", has been cancelled. We apologize for any inconvenience.
Conversations with America: U.S. Engagement With the African Union
March 14, 2012 // 5:00pm
Dr. Michael Battle, U.S. Ambassador to the African Union, held a conversation with Steve McDonald, Africa Program Director, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars on U.S. Engagement with the African Union.
e-Dossier No. 33 - North Vietnam's "Talk-Fight" Strategy and the 1968 Peace Negotiations with the United States
CWIHP is pleased to announce the addition of 13 new documents to its online Digital Archive. The newly translated documents released today reveal the Vietnamese Communist Party's "Talk-Fight" negotiation strategy, first described by First Secretary Le Duan in a 1965 speech and put into action during initial 1968 peace talks.
Women in East European Politics
This conference aimed at exploring the experiences and the political goals of women elected to parliament in the postcommunist countries of East Central Europe and Russia. Since 1989, the political scene in Eastern Europe and Russia has changed swiftly. In many countries, women participated in the drive to transform the communist system through demonstrations, civil activism and roundtables.Yet, in the immediate transition period, civic participation of the population in general has declined and the social and political participation of women seems to have declined more than that of men. This difference is attributed in part to the fact that women have been more burdened by the complex adjustments to the social and economic transformations of their societies. In the last few years, however, women with good qualifications and professional experience are slowly gaining political power and influence in several countries.
Elections in Russia and Iran
Haleh Esfandiari, director of the Wilson Center's Middle East Program; Blair Ruble, director of the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies at the Wilson Center.
Uprising: The Politics of Protest
John Nichols, The Nation's Washington correspondent and the Associate Editor of The Capital Times in Madison, Wisconsin; Kent Hughes, director of the Wilson Center’s Program on America and the Global Economy
The Swing Vote: The Untapped Power of Independents
Linda Killian, journalist and Wilson Center Senior Scholar
