 |  | By consolidating Ayatollah Khamenei's grip on power, last week's elections suggest a new diplomatic "middle ground," analyst Bijan Khajehpour says. "My feeling is that there could be an opening." more→ Event Video and Podcast
Iran After the 2012 Parliamentary Elections | | Wilson in the News | | Post-Traumatic Stress and the Military (The Kojo Nnamdi Show) Public Policy Scholar Nancy Sherman, an expert on the psychological toll of war, discusses post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in the military, days after a US soldier was accused of massacring 16 Afghan civilians. | | 9 Great Quotes From the Women In The World Conference (Business Insider) "Many women have been successful at breaking the glass ceiling only to find a layer of men," said Director, President, and CEO Jane Harman at last week's Women in the World Summit in New York. | | Japan's Nuclear Cabal (Foreign Policy) Japan's public is squarely against going back to nuclear power but the government is pushing to get the country's nuclear plants back online, writes Japan Scholar Nobuo Fukuda. | | What to do About Synthetic Life? (MSNBC) The Wilson Center has established its own project to study the policy implications of synthetic biology. One of the leaders of that project, senior research associate Todd Kuiken, says that the principles issued were "not that much different" from the presidential commission's recommendations, although he said the tone was a bit more strident. "The word 'moratorium' is a little strong," says Kuiken. | Exclusive: UN Won't Back Down on Iran Nuclear Inspections
(The Daily Beast) In an exclusive interview, the head of the UN's nuclear agency says it will demand Iran allow access to a key military site—even if it escalates tensions. Public Policy Scholar Michael Adler reports. | | Mexico Drug Lord's Fate is Focus of Election Year Speculation (The Los Angeles Times) "The implication is that the United States or Mexico or Calderon has been sitting on the information and waiting for the right moment," said Senior Associate of the Mexico Institute Eric Olson. "I don't think that's true." | | Bill Would Dock Congress for Failure to Pass Budget (US News and World Report) "It's almost a twofer for voters. You get a budget on time and you get to take a shot at Congress," testified Donald Wolfensberger, Director of the Congress Project. | | Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics: How Ruy Teixeira Got it Wrong on 'Swing Vote' (The Daily Beast) Senior Scholar Linda Killian rebuts CAP Senior Fellow Ruy Teixeira's critique of her book Swing Vote, providing further evidence that swing voters are real, have a major impact on elections, and deserve to be listened to rather than just analyzed through data. | | | | | | Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
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