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    A View from the White House: Latin America Policy under the Trump Administration

    Though President Trump has not traveled to Latin America since taking office, the region has kept his national security team busy. The White House has…
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    Presidential Memorial Exhibit

    Monday - Friday
    9am - 5pm

    Saturday - Sunday
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    For more information, or questions about the exhibit, please contact us:
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    September 2018

    Urban Waste Revolution: Turning China’s Sludge and Garbage Mountains into Low-Carbon Solutions

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    China has a sludge problem. A big one. Wastewater plants in Chinese cities produce a staggering 40 million tons of this semi-solid slurry each year, enough to fill all… // Read more

    Book Launch: "A Sacred Space is Never Empty: A History of Soviet Atheism" with Dr. Victoria Smolkin

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    The Bolsheviks imagined Communism as a world without religion. The Soviet experiment was the first attempt to turn this vision into reality. Following the 1917… // Read more

    The Scientific, Social, and Economic Dimensions of Development in the Amazon

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    On September 24, 2018, the Wilson Center will host a full-day workshop on the impact of the Amazon on global climate trends and current efforts to support sustainable… // Read more

    A View from the White House: Latin America Policy under the Trump Administration

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    Though President Trump has not traveled to Latin America since taking office, the region has kept his national security team busy. The White House has… // Read more

    Haunted by Chaos: China’s Grand Strategy from Mao Zedong to Xi Jinping

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    Before the Chinese Communist Party took power, China lay broken. Today it is a force on the global stage, but remains haunted by the past. Sulmaan Wasif Khan chronicles the grand strategies pursued by China’s paramount leaders: Mao Zedong, who unified the country and kept it whole; Deng Xiaoping who dragged that country into the modern world; Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao, cautious custodians of Deng’s legacy; and the powerful, insecure Xi Jinping. Despite the costs, China’s grand strategies have been largely successful. But success brings significant challenges—ones ever more pressing in the twenty-first century. // Read more

    Admiral Eduardo Bacellar Leal Ferreira on the Evolving Role of the Brazilian Navy

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    Brazil is home to a vast maritime region, from the waters of the Amazon River to the country’s nearly 8,000 km of Atlantic coast. These areas play a central role in… // Read more