 | | November 4, 2011 |  | Dr. Henry Kissinger and a distinguished panel from the media, government, and academia analyze future of Afghanistan. What role should outside powers play in promoting the peace process and stability in the aftermath of a US military presence? more | | Resources and Security for Seven Billion People |  | October 31, 2011 Seven billion people now live on earth, only a dozen years after global population hit six billion. But the seven billion milestone is not about sheer numbers: Demographic trends will significantly impact the planet's resources and peoples' security. | CONTEXT: Death of Gaddafi and the Arab Spring |  | October 31, 2011 In exclusive interviews, three veteran Middle East analysts discuss the significance of Muammar Gaddafi's death in the context of the greater Arab Spring. | American Society — A Chinese Perspective |  | October 25, 2011 // 3:30pm — 5:30pm Increasing numbers of Chinese travel to the US for business, tourism, or education, while others study American history and culture in local schools and universities. The Wilson Center was joined by experts from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences to discuss Chinese views of American society, politics, and culture. | CONTEXT: 50 Years of Science in Brazil |  | November 01, 2011 Three of the Sao Paulo Research Foundation's most prominent contributors talk about the future of Brazil's growing commitment to science and research. |
Howard Wolpe, Former Africa Program Director, Dies at 71 |  | October 28, 2011 It was a life-long love between Howard and Africa, on both sides. I worked closely with Howard in the 1980s during the fight to pass the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act and to move South Africa to a just future, helping put him in touch with South African leaders inside and outside the country. | Wilson in the News | "I have no objection in principle to negotiating with the Taliban," Kissinger told an audience at a panel discussion at the Woodrow Wilson International Center, a think-tank in Washington. "But for the purpose of ending the war, it's the wrong sequence of events. The first negotiation in my view ought to be with surrounding countries," including Pakistan, India and Iran, nations seeking greater influence in Afghanistan as the United States orchestrates its exit. | With U.S. troops set to leave Afghanistan in 2014, Kissinger told a panel discussion at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars that the U.S. should engage the Taliban only after first dealing with other countries in the region, Agence France-Press reported. | That was too blunt for the White House. "President Reagan saw South Africa as an important ally against expansion of Soviet influence, and he was a very pro-business president," Steve McDonald, director of the Africa program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, said on Friday. "He wanted to use what he called 'constructive engagement' with the government to bring an end to apartheid." | Pythons' enormous appetites and rapid digestion process is a biological mystery with important implications for human health, says Fellow Lawrence Altman, particularly when it comes to heart failure. Now scientists at the University of Colorado are reporting that they have partly solved it.. | Canadians are angered that the U.S. would use the Colombia free-trade agreement to rescind benefits, Laura Dawson, a public- policy scholar at the Canada Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, said in an interview. "When it was connected directly to the Colombian FTA, it irks a bit," Dawson said in an interview. "It's not going to put any damper on Canadian travel; $5.50 is not that big a deal, it's a cup of coffee on the way in to the airport. The optics of it aren't very good." | But this milestone "is not about sheer numbers," says Geoff Dabelko, director of the Woodrow Wilson Center's Environmental Change Security Program. "Demographic trends will significantly impact the planet's resources and people's security. | Japan Broadcasting Corporation NHK reports on the keynote address by former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, delivered at an Asia Program conference in Tokyo last week looking at US-Japanese ties. | Program Associate for the Asia Michael Kugelman published a piece on Pakistan's demographic challenges. It is based on the Asia program's recently published book, Reaping the Dividend: Overcoming Pakistan's Demographic Challenges. | Distinguished Scholar Robin Wright on how U.S. troops will withdrawal form Iraq, how much of the U.S. presence will remain and whether Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is presiding over a new democracy or another dictatorship. | Even the biggest boosters of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change hold out little hope that its next conference this November will achieve anything concrete, says Public Policy Scholar Ruth Greenspan Bell. It is time to supplement such global meetings with more limited talks -- which have a better chance of success. | If you can't afford to do that, or you don't do it, those young people grow up to be a burden, not an asset. That's how Geoff Dabelko at the Woodrow Wilson Center put it to me. "With high population growth rates, it makes the challenge of achieving economic growth all that much more difficult." | | | | | | Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
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