 | | December 16, 2011 |  | A panel of experts reflects on the larger meaning of the Arab Spring one year after the Tunisian "Burning Man" sparked a wave of unrest throughout the entire region. more | | A Year of Arab Awakening | | Has the spring turned to winter? The Wilson Center looks back at this historic year. Also in this edition, the end of the War in Iraq. |  | CONTEXT // December 15, 2011 Almost eight years after the invasion of Iraq, U.S. troops are on their way home. The Wilson Center interviews James Zogby, founder and president of the Arab American Institute, about a new poll he conducted to gauge reactions to the withdrawal of American forces. | Where it Began: Tunisia |  | Op-ed/Video // December 15, 2011 From peaceful revolution to free elections in just nine months, the birthplace of the Arab Spring has achieved a stunning transition, says President, Director and CEO Jane Harman from Tunis. Now we must embrace the victors and ensure strong roles for women. | Impact Beyond the Middle East |  | Event // December 6, 2011 "A year has passed, and the state of play remains uncertain. Spring has turned to autumn, and autumn to winter," said IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde during a conference on the gap between development and governance in the Arab world. |
 | Event // July 19, 2011 Marwan Muasher, Ellen Laipson, Rami Khouri and Aaron David Miller discussed perspectives and policy implications of this year's unrest in the Middle East, pointing out key observations and implications for the United States. |  | Dialogue TV Program // July 8, 2011 Since September 11, 2001, both the Bush and Obama Administrations have placed an emphasis on building a better dialogue with the "Muslim world." Dialogue explored the idea of "winning hearts and minds" with guests Roger Hardy, Abdul Aziz Said, and Roberto Toscano. |  | Op-ed // November 13, 2011 The long arc of the Arab Spring may yet bring real reform to the Arab world. But the short term all but guarantees a much less hospitable and forbidding place for America, writes Senior Scholar David Ottaway in The Los Angeles Times. |  | Dialogue TV Program // July 27, 2011 A decade after the 9/11 attacks, this groundbreaking book takes readers deep into rebellions against both autocrats and extremists that are redefining politics, culture, and security threats across the Islamic world. Dialogue interviewed journalist, author, and foreign policy analyst Robin Wright on her book, "Rock the Casbah: Rage and Rebellion Across the Islamic World.". |  | Event // September 20, 2011 Women throughout the world are working towards viable democracies but not without challenges. NPR Journalist Jacki Lynden and Secretary General of the Jordanian National Commission for Women Asma Khader joined other women leaders from the Arab and Islamic regions to address these challenges and examine the influences of the Arab Spring on women. |  | Dialogue TV Program // July 12, 2011 Dialogue hosted Moushira Khattab, Lilia Labidi, and Haleh Esfandiari to discuss the role that women played in the Arab Spring and how these roles might evolve in the coming months and years with the enormous political changes sweeping the region. | Libya After the Fall of Gaddafi |  | Video // October 20, 2011 Capturing Gaddafi was the psychological moment when the Libyan people began to feel they could move on from his regime, says Wilson Center Distinguished Scholar Robin Wright on MSNBC's "The Daily Rundown." |
 | CONTEXT // October 31, 2011 In exclusive interviews, Aaron David Miller, Haleh Esfandiari and William B. Milam discuss the significance of Muammar Gaddafi's death in the context of the greater Arab Spring. | In the Shadow of the Arab Revolt |  | Op-ed // November 23, 2011 While Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir has remained one step ahead of his impressive list of enemies, his time in power may soon be running out as his fellow Arab autocrats have discovered this year, Senior Scholar David Ottaway writes after his latest trip to Khartoum. |
 | Event // December 1, 2011 Nabeel Rajab, president of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights receives the 2011 Ion Ratiu Democracy Award. |  | Dialogue TV Program // October 20, 2011 Dialogue guests Caryle Murphy and David Ottaway take a look at Saudi Arabia and discuss how this key U.S. ally is changing after Arab Spring uprisings. | Egypt and North Africa |  | Dialogue Program // February 27, 2011 With the downfall of the Mubarak regime in Egypt protests have quickly spread throughout the Middle East. With many former regional allies of the United States now on the brink of revolution, what are the implications for the U.S. and other western allies after Mubarak's fall? Three of the most experienced experts on the region, David Ottaway, Aaron David Miller, and Barbara Slavin share their insight. |
 | Video // November 23, 2011 Reflecting on her recent trips to Egypt and Tunisia, Jane Harman discusses the different situations in both countries and her suggestions for elections. |  | Op-ed // November 29, 2011 The victory of moderate Islamist parties in parliamentary elections, first in Tunisia and now in Morocco, confirms the most significant change wrought so far by the Arab revolts of this past year-- their emergence into the mainstream of Arab politics as leading players. Whether these elections will exorcize the "Islamic ghost" haunting North Africa, Europe, and the United States remains to be seen, but initial signs are mostly promising. | Wilson in the News | The Washington Post's Notable Nonfiction list for 2011 includes two books written by Wilson Center Scholars. Rock the Casbah: Rage and Rebellion across the Islamic World, by Distinguished Scholar Robin Wright and Playing with Fire: Pakistan at War with Itself, by former Public Policy Scholar Pamela Constable. | It is easy to blame Congress for the failure of the Joint Committee on Deficit Reduction (aka the superfluous-committee) to produce at least $1.2 trillion in debt reductions mandated by the Budget Control Act, writes Director of the Congress Project Don Wolfensberger in his most recent column. | But former Rep. Jane Harman (D-Venice), who sat on the House homeland security intelligence subcommittee at the time and served as its chairwoman from 2007 until early this year, said no one ever discussed using Predators to help local police serve warrants or do other basic work. Using Predators for routine law enforcement without public debate or clear legal authority is a mistake, Harman said. "There is no question that this could become something that people will regret," said Harman, who resigned from the House in February and now heads the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, a Washington think tank. | Customs and Boarder Protection use unmanned drones to patrol U.S. boarders with Mexico and Canada. Now local police are using drones to conduct surveillance flights and track down suspects, raising legal concerns. "This is beyond the mandate that Congress gave Border Patrol," said Wilson Center President Jane Harman on CNN's Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer. | Climate negotiators are celebrating the deal reached over the weekend at the conference in South Africa. But the agreement only validates an approach to climate change that has failed to reverse global warming for more than 20 years now, writes Public Policy Scholar Ruth Greenspan Bell. | With U.S. forces set to exit Iraq by the end of the year, there are rising concerns about security in the volatile region. Distinguished Scholar Robin Wright discusses the most recent developments in Iran: nuclear ambitions, the downing of a U.S. surveillance drone, and the rampage on the British embassy by Iranian protesters. | Through practical stories, cultural anecdotes and personal experiences, Secretary General of the Council of Women World Leaders Laura Liswood explains how to ensure a fair and level playing field for anyone working his or her way up the ladder in this new corporate world order. Liswood discusses some of the reasons for the challenges encountered by historically underrepresented groups and suggests ways to overcome those obstacles by going beyond usual ideas about diversity. | Program Associate for the Asia Program Michael Kugelman published an article in the latest issue of the Journal of Energy Security. It focuses on India's energy security strategy, and how New Delhi can better integrate energy security concerns into its national security strategy. | Cynthia Arnson, the director of the Latin American Program at the Woodrow Wilson Center, said, "Venezuela is the port of entry for Iran in Latin America. Hugo Chavez has rolled out the red carpet and facilitated relations between Iran and other governments in the region." Arnson added, however, "I think there is a lot more photo ops and signing of memoranda of understandings than there is actual financing of developmental infrastructure projects." | "She ends the year on a rather positive note," said Paulo Sotero, a Brazilian who runs the Brazil Institute at the Washington-based Woodrow Wilson Center. "She's more popular now than when she started." | GE's deals are signs that Beijing is serious about its environment, says Jennifer Turner, director of the Washington-based China Environment Forum. But she worries that neighboring provinces don't have the same drive. "I don't think they'll be able to do the environmental-authoritarianism thing," she says. "Factories are saying 'Not now. Hell no. We won't shut down for two weeks.'" | Public Policy Scholar Laura Dawson talked to CTV about advantages of North American economic integration and the Beyond the Border Action Plan signed by President Obama and Prime Minister Stephen Harper last week. | Public Policy Scholar Aaron David Miller talks to America's New HQ to discuss Newt Gingrich's controversial statement that the Palestinians are a made up people. | | | | | | Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
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