WILSON CENTER NEWS
Zimbabwe: From Crisis to Renewal
Africa Program Consulting Director Steve McDonald testified before the Congressional Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health. Read his testimony about the United States' role in encouraging the transition to democracy, peace and stability.
Latin America in 2010: Opportunities, Challenges and the Future of the U.S. Policy in the Hemisphere
Latin American Program Director Cynthia Arnson testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere at the December 1 hearing "Latin America in 2010: Opportunities, Challenges and the Future of the U.S. Policy in the Hemisphere." Read her testimony about major political and economic trends in the region, and the challenges they pose for U.S. policy.
Saudi Arabia's Ailing Gerontocracy
The age and illness of King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al-Saud of Saudi Arabia have raised anew the concern that the fate of the world's key oil producer is now in the hands of an ailing gerontocracy. Wilson Center Senior Scholar David Ottaway analyzes the line to the Saudi crown.
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WILSON CENTER EVENTS, January 5 – January 31
Wednesday, January 5
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
 The Crisis in the Arab World's Aging Leadership, David Ottaway, Senior Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center, and Former Cairo Bureau Chief, The Washington Post
Monday, January 10
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
The U.S.-Russia Reset: Status and Prospects, Paul J. Saunders, Executive Director, The Nixon Center, and Associate Publisher, The National Interest
Tuesday, January 11
10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
U.S. Energy Security Policy: A Global Perspective, David L. Goldwyn, Special Envoy, International Energy Affairs, Department of State
Wednesday, January 12
12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
A Conversation on Art and Social Change, Lynsey Addario, Photographer, MacArthur Fellow; Jane M. Saks, Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media
3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
New Book Discussion: Age of Fracture, Author Daniel Rodgers, Henry Charles Lea Professor of History, and Director, Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies; John Judis, Senior Editor, The New Republic; Michael Kimmage, Associate Professor of History, Catholic University
Thursday, January 13
2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
A Lens Into Liberia: Experiences From IRP Gatekeepers, Steve McDonald, Director, Africa Program and the Project on Leadership and Building State Capacity, Woodrow Wilson Center; John Schidlovsky, Director, International Reporting Project; Sunni Khalid, Managing News Editor, WYPR, Baltimore; Ed Robbins, Video Journalist, New York; Teresa Wiltz, Senior Editor, TheRoot.com
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Iran Primer II: The Nuclear Controversy, Michael Adler, Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center; David Albright, President, Institute for Science and International Security; Michael Elleman, Senior Fellow, Regional Security Cooperation, International Institute for Strategic Studies, Bahrain
Friday, January 14
9:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Fostering Locally Owned Strategies in Fragile States: Strategic Entry Point for Diplomacy and Development?, Steve McDonald, Director, Africa Program and Project on Leadership and Building State Capacity, Woodrow Wilson Center; Michael Lund, Senior Specialist, Conflict and Peacebuilding, Management Systems International; Ambassador Robert Loftis, Acting Coordinator, Office of the Coordinator for Stabilization and Reconstruction, U.S. State Department; Raja Jandhyala, Deputy Assistant Administrator, Africa Bureau, USAID; Sharon Morris, Director Conflict Management, Mercy Corps; Chetan Kumar, Inter-Agency Liaison Specialist, Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery, UNDP; Anne-Marie Slaughter, Director, Policy Planning Staff, U.S. State Department
Tuesday, January 18
3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Subsidizing Inequality: Mexican Corn Policy Since NAFTA, Jonathan Fox, Professor, Latin American and Latino Studies, University of California-Santa Cruz; Mauricio Merino, Director, Division of Public Administration, Center for Economic Research and Teaching (CIDE); John Scott, Professor, CIDE; Libby Haight, Program Officer for Partnership Intitiative, International Budget Partnership; Timothy Wise, Director, Research and Policy Program, Global Development and Environmental Institute, Tufts University
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Revisiting Life and Fate After 50 Years: Vasily Grossman and the "Spirit of Freedom", Leon Aron, Resident Scholar and Director of Russian Studies, American Enterprise Institute
Thursday, January 20
3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Civil Society in Kazakhstan: Scope and Propects, Charles E. Ziegler, Professor and University Scholar, Department of Political Science, University of Louisville
3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
New Book Discussion: An Example for All the Land: Emancipation and the Struggle Over Equality in Washington, D.C., Author Kate Masur, Associate Professor of History, Northwestern University; Adam Rothman, Associate Professor of History, Georgetown University; Maurice Jackson, Associate Professor of History, Georgetown University; Jamin Raskin, Maryland State Senator and Professor of Law, American University Washington College of Law (legislative schedule permitting)
4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty: The CIA Years and Beyond, A. Ross Johnson, Senior Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center, Stephen Larrabee, Distinguished Chair in European Security, RAND Corporation, Elez Biberaj, Division Director, Eurasia, Voice of America.
Monday, January 24
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Kazan's New Spirit: Lasting Social Effects of Tatarstan's Sovereignty Movement, Helen Faller, Independent Scholar, Philadelphia
4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Congress and the Education Deficit, Rep. Donald Payne (D-N.J.) (invited); Rep. Thomas Petri (R-Wis.); The Hon. Thelma Melendez de Santa Ana, Assistant Secretary of Elementary and Secondary Education, Dept. of Education (invited); Laura Moore, Project Policy Manager, Civic Enterprises
4:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.
Is Status Quo Destiny? China's Interests in Post-Kim Dynasty Korea, Sung Yoon Lee, Adjunct Assistant Professor of International Politics, Tufts University, and Research Associate, National Asia Research Program
Tuesday, January 25
1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Panel Discussion: Women and Entrepreneurship, Tami Longaberger, Chair and CEO, The Longaberger Company; Margot Dorfman, Founder and CEO, U.S. Women's Chamber of Commerce
Wednesday, January 26
3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Demographic Trends and Policy Implications in Northeast Asia, Jocelyn Finlay, Harvard University; Ito Peng, University of Toronto; Richard Cincotta, Stimson Center
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Losing Hearts and Minds: From Bush to Obama, Roger Hardy, Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center, and Former Middle East and Islamic Affairs Analyst, BBC World Service
Thursday, January 27
4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Ensuring Compliance: Strategies for Popular Cooptation by the Party and State Security in Communist Europe and in Ba'athist Iraq, Martin Dimitrov, Fellow, Woodrow Wilson Center; Joseph Sassoon, Public Policy Scholar, Wilson Center; Sheila Fitzpatrick, Bernadotte E. Schmitt Distinguished Service Professor of Modern Russian History, Department of History, University of Chicago
Monday, January 31
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
An Alien in Moscow/An Alien in New York: The Cinema of Slava Tsukerman, Peter Rollberg, Professor of Slavic Languages, Film Studies and International Affairs, George Washington University
8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Celebrating Nunavut: Inuit Art From the Canadian Arctic, The exhibit is currently on display and will be up through January 2011.
6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Offsite Film Screening: Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today, Sandra Schulberg, Co-Creator and Producer
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SCHOLARS IN THE MEDIA
The State of Statelessness
Fellow Henry Farrell published a review in the January-February 2011 issue of The American Interest about two new books about the history of anarchism.
A Crucial Connection
Asia Program Associate Michael Kugelman published an op-ed in The Times of India about the linkages between India's natural resource constraints and its national security challenges. (12/28)
Oil Boom: Will Ghana Learn From the Mistakes of Others?
Africa Policy Scholar Uche Igwe published an op-ed on Nigeria's Next about the recent discovery of a 500-million-barrel oil field in Ghana and its implications for the country. (12/21)
Wooing the Gods of the Peace Process
Public Policy Scholar Aaron David Miller published an op-ed in Foreign Policy extracting lessons from Bill Clinton's Camp David summit as the 11th anniversary of the meetings approaches. He also published an op-ed in Politico urging the United States to be patient and steady in the Arab-Israeli peace process and contributed to discussions about the tax deal between President Obama and congressional Republicans and about assessing Sarah Palin's place within the GOP and American politics as a whole. (12/20)
The City's Persistent Partner of Patronage
Senior Scholar Marty Tolchin and Susan Tolchin co-authored an op-ed in the Chicago Tribune about Chicago's history of political patronage, and they appeared on "The New York Times Close Up" on NY1 to discuss their book Pinstripe Patronage. The book was reviewed in The Huffington Post and Publishers Weekly. (12/16)
'No Labels' Wants to Deliver on Public's Cry for Change, but Will It Work?
Senior Scholar Linda Killian published an op-ed on Politics Daily about No Labels, a new movement seeking to reform the United States' political culture and support candidates and ideas that reflect bipartisanship, civility and centrism. She also published an op-ed on USNews.com parsing the tax deal between the White House and the GOP, and why it is bad policy. (12/14)
Jobs Report a Wake-Up Call to Washington
Public Policy Scholar Amy Wilkinson published an op-ed on CNN.com
about the bleak November jobs report and what the U.S. can do to promote job growth. (12/4)
The Nuclear Bazaar
Public Policy Scholar Michael Adler published an op-ed in Foreign Policy about what the diplomatic cables published by WikiLeaks mean for talks between Iran and the United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Russia, and China. (12/2)
Migrant-Based Organizations Lead Fight for Domestic Workers' Rights
United States Studies Director Sonya Michel published a piece in The Globalist about how migrant women are taking the lead in fighting for legal protections for home-based workers in the United States. (12/2)
"The Washington Post" Reveals New Details About Al Qaeda Attacks Which Target France
Visiting Arab Journalist Rachid Ould Boussiafa published a piece on Echorouk Online about a recent Al Qaeda plot broken up in France. (12/1)
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