 | | January 20, 2012 |  | The border should be "our last line of defense, not our first" in the fight against trans-global security threats, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said at The Wilson Center Tuesday. moreTranscript | Video | Audio | |
 | Video Q&A // January 20, 2012 The world's population is split approximately 50-50 between men and women. But when it comes to presidents, prime ministers, and other heads of state and government, a significant gender disparity is uncovered. To commemorate the 15-year anniversary of the Council of Women World Leaders, we spoke with Mary Robinson, former president of Ireland, and Margot Wallstrom, UN Special Representative to the Secretary General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, about their work, the status of women leaders, and prospects for the future. |  | Video // January 5, 2012 For more than 60 years the U.S. has been the head of global governance, says John Ikenberry, but that order is changing and we are in the midst of an evolution towards more shared leadership. |  | Congressional Testimony// January 18, 2012 European Studies Senior Associate Nida Gelazis briefed Congress' Helsinki Commission before the upcoming NATO summit, to be held in Chicago this spring. Gelazis' testimony was part of a hearing that examined NATO's role in preventing conflict in the Western Balkans, among other important Euro-Atlantic issues. | The Wilson Center Honors Howard Wolpe |  | January 19, 2012 The late Howard Wolpe, the Wilson Center's former Africa Program director, was remembered at a special memorial service that paid tribute to his career as a diplomat and legislator who fought for peace in Burundi and the end of apartheid in South Africa. |  | January 12, 2012 Popular Wilson Center blog honored for leading-edge analysis on global environment and security issues, marking third time selected by Population Institute. | Wilson in the News | "Their operation that sent Abdulmutallab here in December of 2009 was something -- it was a pick-up game. It took about a month to get that thing going," McLaughlin said Tuesday during an event on homeland security at the Woodrow Wilson Center. "They're cheap: The package-bomb operation, by their own estimate, cost them about $4,200. And they have a strategy, which is a thousand cuts. So, basically, attack us where they can." | Musharraf believes he can be the person to rescue Pakistan civilian government, seen by many Pakistanis as inept and corrupt, Program associate for the Asia Program Michael Kugelman tells CNN's "The Situation Room." | Aaron David Miller recently debated the motion, "The U.N. Should Admit Palestine As A Full Member State" with Mustafa Barghouthi, Daniel Levy, and Dore Gold, as part of an Intelligence Squared debate. Miller and Gold argued against the motion, while Barghouthi and Levy argued for it. | Ma's victory removes a potential irritant in the U.S.-China relationship, said Bryce Wakefield, a program associate at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, a Washington policy group. | Small business is not to be trifled with, writes Senior Scholar Amy Wilkinson. President Barack Obama's announcement last week of a proposal to temporarily elevate the Small Business Administration to Cabinet rank is a move in the right direction. | Senior Scholar Linda Killian joins C-SPAN to discuss the political system losing faith among the public and more deeply among independent voters. | Brazil, which as payback requires Americans to obtain visas to visit it, hasn't met a key, if obscure, criterion for VWP eligibility: that a country's U.S. tourist-visa application-refusal rate be less than 3%. "But Brazil is edging toward that," says Paulo Sotero, director of the Woodrow Wilson Center's Brazil Institute in Washington. | "If in fact he gets to be president, all of these positions will be rationalized away in the pursuit of the American national interest," predicted Aaron David Miller, a scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington. | The former Mississippi governor was a textbook Republican for the last two decades, but a slew of pardons he granted in his last days in office put a serious dent in the GOP's law-and-order image, writes Senior Scholar Linda Killian. | | | | | | Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
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