 | | December 9, 2011 |  | 20 years after the collapse of the USSR, CONTEXT begins a 3-part series exploring the past, present and future of Russia. more | |  | 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. |  | December 7, 2011 There is always hope that new legislation will change relationships and improve development. In reality, the solution is a long term process, said Mirza Jahani, Chief Executive Officer of the Aga Khan Foundation, in an exclusive interview. "To be a better aid agency you need to have your people there for longer periods of time with increased tour lengths of individuals." |  | December 7, 2011 The Wilson Center's President, Jane Harman, has been appointed to the State Department's new Foreign Affairs Policy Board. The Board is composed of 25 members who will meet periodically to discuss issues of high priority for the Secretary and the Department. It will focus on broad strategic questions and provide the Secretary and other senior Department officials with insights, perspectives, and ideas. |  | December 14, 2011 // 3:00 - 5:00 pm Opportunities for government and business to partner in support of sustainable design are vast and growing. Martha Johnson, GSA Administrator, will explore how $65 billion and 360 million square feet of federal real estate can become a zero environmental footprint that will reduce waste, support innovation, and boost efficiency.
RSVP Now. | Wilson in the News | Distinguished Scholar Robin Wright's book, Rock the Casbah: Rage and Rebellion Across the Islamic World, was named one of the Foreign Policy Association's Top 5 Books of 2011. | Nabeel Rajab, president of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights, came to Washington to receive the Woodrow Wilson Center's 2011 Ion Ratiu Democracy Award for his work documenting human rights abuses conducted by the Bahraini ruling family's security forces since protesters took to the streets in the capital of Manama in February. He was not invited to the State Department for any meetings whatsoever. He did visit the National Security Council, and met with senior director for democracy Gayle Smith, but wasn't given time by any official who works directly on Bahrain. | "This is naturally a risky and uncertain period," Lagarde said in a speech at the Woodrow Wilson Center think tank in Washington. "It is a period when hard choices must be made, when post-revolutionary euphoria must give some way to practical concerns. It also doesn't help that this is happening at a time of great turmoil in the global economy." | Program Associate for the Asia Program Michael Kugelman co-published a new piece proposing an Afghanistan-Pakistan water treaty to govern the Kabul River. | Former Public Policy Scholar Scott Wallace's latest book, The Unconquered: In Search of the Amazon's Last Uncontacted Tribes was reviewed in The New York Times' Sunday Book Review. | Hathaway of the Wilson Center said he was skeptical that the plans to build a regional trade block will be enough to induce militants to embrace reconciliation. Those most responsible for instability in Afghanistan today "are not going to be dissuaded because of new trade routes or by the prospect of regional trade ties," he said | "The Arab spring is poised to unleash the extraordinary potential of the Arab people," Lagarde said in a speech at the Woodrow Wilson Center. "We are already offering the best policy advice and technical assistance possible. We will provide financing if requested," she said in prepared remarks. | The Fed has taken unprecedented steps to bolster the U.S. economy by purchasing Treasurys, says Vice Chairman of The Wilson Center Sander Gerber. But its economists ignore the effects that growing the monetary base will have on the money supply. As we embrace yet more quantitative easing, Bernanke needs to better monitor and understand monetary aggregates — before it's too late. | Unless we renew our commitment to building things together better, North American manufacturing and the jobs it supports will be a distant memory, says Public Policy Scholar Laura Dawson. Our governments have taken the first steps by creating a plan for a streamlined border and now voters need to hold politicians accountable. | "Keystone will come up, but whether or not we can expect any movement? I'd be surprised to see that," said Laura Dawson, a policy scholar at the Canada Institute at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. | Information about sex is not unrelated to action against climate change, according to Agbarakwe and other panelists at a high-level discussion hosted by the U.S.-based Aspen Institute, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and Population Action International. | "There's going to be a lot of people in Mexico that are offended by this, find it frustrating and are angry at the U.S.," said Eric Olson, an expert in anti-narcotics policies at the Woodrow Wilson International Center in Washington, D.C. "But the difference this time is that the Mexican authorities appear to have been aware of this and accompanied this in many cases," he added in an interview with Univision Noticias. | Fellow Marc Sommers says high dowry prices in South Sudan may be causing some in more rural areas to turn to crime in order to raise the money. Government and international communities need to become involved and address the problem. | How long can Gingrich lead the pack in the Republican nomination race? Senior Scholar Linda Killian visits KCRW's "To the Point" to discuss. | "Overall, Newt's four years as speaker can be characterized as gridlock followed by greased wheels," said Donald Wolfensberger, who served as the Republican staff director of the influential House Rules Committee before and during Gingrich's tenure as speaker. Wolfensberger is now director of the Congress Project at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. | | | | | | Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
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