 |  | One year after the death of bin Laden, the White House's top counter-terrorism expert discussed the Administration's ongoing efforts to destroy al Qaeda and its affiliates, as well as the standards and practices behind those efforts. He acknowledged the use of drone strikes against terrorists, and targeted killings overseas.
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Event Video | May 1, 2012 With a rising middle-class still wrestling with poverty, Mexico is a bridge between emerging and advanced economies. As this year's G-20 chair, the country can establish common ground on thorny trade issues that have split the world community. Experts look to next month's meeting at Los Cabos. |  | On Key Issues, Parties Farther Apart than Ever
Event Video | April 30, 2012 Money and media clout have always influenced politics, but today's climate of incessant fundraising and hyperpartisan shouting matches marks a qualitatively different era, said former Members Tom Downey (D-NY) and Vin Weber (R-MN). Also: Roundtable Participant's Suggestions for Changing the Culture of Congress |  | Arizona's Immigration Law on Trial
Video Q&A | May 3, 2012 With a Supreme Court ruling expected this summer, the debate on state-level immigration enforcement is poised to shape the presidential campaign in unexpected ways. In this interview, Center expert Karthick Ramakrishnan discusses the Court's recent hearing on Arizona's controversial SB1070 law. | | Wilson in the News | Brennan speech is first Obama acknowledgment of
use of armed drones — The Washington Post "So let me say it as simply as I can," Brennan said in a speech at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington. "Yes, in full accordance with the law — and in order to prevent terrorist attacks on the United States and to save American lives — the United States government conducts targeted strikes against specific al-Qaeda terrorists, sometimes using remotely piloted aircraft, often referred to publicly as drones." | Are Washington and Wall St. Afraid of a French
Socialist Leader? — AFP Program on America and the Global Economy Director Kent Hughes discusses the state of the French elections and criticism Francois Hollande has received over some of his recent statements. | Zimbabwean Diaspora Fears Mugabe May Steal Another
Election — Voice of America One stipulation is that there must be constitutional change before the next round of voting. The Africa director at the Wilson Center in Washington, Steve McDonald, says President Mugabe is trying to get re-elected as soon as possible, so he may try to convince South African mediators to change their view on the need for constitutional reform. "He wants to get beyond the power-sharing arrangement," said McDonald. "He is under pressure from the South Africans who have declared that they will not recognize or work with him if the preparations for the election do not precede it and the main thing there is the constitutional referendum." | | Scholars Discuss US Policy in the Middle East at ADL Conference — CSPAN A panel discussion will follow on US Policy in the Middle East. Panelists include: Wilson Center Scholar Aaron David Miller; David Makovsky of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy; and American Enterprise Institute Vice President of Foreign and Defense Policy Studies Danielle Pletka. | Central Americans determined to trek north to US
— The Washington Times "As the Mexican government began calling attention to the protection of human rights of Mexicans in the United States, calling on the US government to issue more visas to Mexicans and to establish a guest worker program for Mexicans, the Mexican government found itself being accused of failing to grant foreigners in Mexico the same civil rights and workplace protections," says a 2011 report by the Woodrow Wilson Center's Mexico Institute. | China's Looming Conflict Between Energy and Water
— Environment 360 What is gradually becoming apparent — in China, as elsewhere — is that energy and water must be planned for together. Speaking recently at the Beijing offices of the Nature Conservancy, Jennifer Turner, director of the Woodrow Wilson Center's China Environment Forum, called this connection the "water-energy nexus." | | Mexico-Brazil FTA: Still a Dream? — Latin Business Chronicle According to Christopher Wilson, an associate of the Mexico Institute at the Woodrow Wilson Center, "By agreeing to limit exports of cars to Brazil for a three-year period, Mexico is betting on the long-term competitiveness of its car industry, and is aiming to convince automakers to continue investing in Mexican production." | | Incredible Shrinking Country — The New York Times But one developed nation is making "Children of Men" look particularly prophetic. In Japan, birthrates are now so low and life expectancy so great that the nation will soon have a demographic profile that matches that of the American retirement community of Palm Springs. "Gradually but relentlessly," the demographer Nick Eberstadt writes in the latest issue of The Wilson Quarterly, "Japan is evolving into a type of society whose contours and workings have only been contemplated in science fiction." | | Snags in the Pact — Dawn Pakistan Scholar Zahid Hussain published a new article in Dawn, focused on the situation in Afghanistan. | | Netanyahu on an Island? — CNN Distinguished Scholar Aaron David Millers comments on the recent brushback from inside Israel against Netanyahu for his hardline stance against Iran. | | | | | | Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
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