 |  | With last Sunday's vote heralding Putin's return to the presidency, Russia's opposition movement is settling into a long campaign for reforms, activist Oleg Kozlovsky says. "This struggle can take months; it can take years; and [we] realize it's not an easy task," he tells Context. more→ Event Video | Assessing the Implications of the Russian Presidential Election |  | Diplomacy Reemerging to Deal With Iran
Video Interview | Mar 08, 2012 Diplomacy is regaining currency following the results of Iran's parliamentary vote and this week's Netanyahu-Obama meeting—events that suggest a shift in rhetoric and a search for nonmilitary solutions, Wilson Center expert Michael Adler tells Context. |  | Have Canada's Rules Helped Avoid Big Oil Spills?
Event Video | March 7, 2012 Two years after Deepwater Horizon memories linger of the massive Gulf oil disaster. This week an expert panel contrasts Canada's unique drilling regulations, which split responsibilities between Ottawa and the provinces, with a US regulatory framework overseen exclusively at the federal level. |  | John Lewis Gaddis on George Kennan
Video Interview | Mar 08, 2012 George F. Kennan will be remembered as one of America's great foreign policy minds. In an interview, former Wilson Center Fellow John Lewis Gaddis reveals the complex personality behind the author of containment theory. | | Wilson in the News | | Uneven Progress for Arab Women (Council on Foreign Relations) In honor of International Women's Day, Haleh Esfandiari, director of the Middle East Program at The Wilson Center, asked a cross-section of female scholars, activists, business executives, journalists, politicians, and officials to comment on how women have fared in the Arab uprisings. The answers, especially from women living in the thick of it in Middle Eastern countries, are depressingly negative—and sometimes scathing. | | Dozens of Women Who Have Made the Planet a Better Place Join 2012 Women in the World Summit (The Daily Beast) Director, President, and CEO Jane Harman has joined other leaders and activists from around the globe in New York City for Newsweek The Daily Beast's third annual Women in the World Summit. | | Mideast Peace, With Something Short of a Deal (The Washington Post) President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will devote little time Monday to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, mainly because a negotiated, two-state solution is running harder than ever against intractable political and psychological realities in Israel, Palestine and the Arab world, writes Distinguished Scholar Aaron David Miller. | | The US, Israel and Efforts to Halt Iran's Nuclear Program (The Diane Rehm Show) Distinguished Scholar Aaron David Miller talks about the US, Israel, and their differing approaches to Iran. | | Obama, Netanyahu Look for Unity on Iran (CNN) President Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu must send an unmistakable signal to Iran, and the rest of the world, that they stand together in their efforts, Distinguished Scholar Aaron David Miller tells MSNBC. | | An Israeli-Iranian War That Seemed So Possible Until Recently Is Averted (The Daily Beast) Israel and the US have agreed to stick with sanctions as the only leverage against Iran for now, while Iran, bowing to international pressure, agrees to talks and perhaps the presence of UN inspectors at the disputed Parchin military testing center, writes Public Policy Scholar Michael Adler. | | Amateurs Are New Fear in Creating Mutant Virus (The New York Times) Todd Kuiken, a senior research associate at The Wilson Center in Washington who specializes in the movement, points out that typical D.I.Y. projects are relatively simple, like inserting a gene into bacteria to make them glow. Producing viruses involves much more expensive equipment to do things like rearing host cells. "It's not going to happen in someone's basement," he said. | | Why Congress May Be Done for the Year (The Atlantic) It's not even spring yet, but with the elections looming, the House and Senate may already have done everything they will do in 2012, writes Public Policy Scholar Linda Killian. | | Obama's Apology and the Ashes of the Holy Quran (The Express Tribune) Program Associate for the Asia Program Michael Kugelman discusses the Quran burnings in Afghanistan, arguing that sadly something similar could well happen again. | | | | | | Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
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