| WILSON CENTER EVENTS, February 1 – February 28
Tuesday, February 1
2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
 Book Discussion: Truth, Errors, and Lies: Politics and Economics in a Volatile World, Grzegorz W. Kolodko, Director, Transformation, Integration, and Globalization Economic Research (TIGER); Moderator Kent Hughes, Director, Program on America and the Global Economy, Woodrow Wilson Center
Wednesday, February 2
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Southeast Europe After the Crisis: Lessons and Prospects, Vassilis Monastiriotis, Senior Lecturer, the European Institute, London School of Economics
9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Scalability: How to Take Local Successes in Education to a State and National Level, Lindsay Knippenberg, High School Biology and Environmental Science, Michigan; Terrie Rust, Middle School Technology, Arizona; Steve Schreiner, Middle School Integrated Science and Technology, Washington; Mike Town, High School Environmental Science, Washington; Kent Hughes, Director, Program on America and the Global Economy, Woodrow Wilson Center
Friday, February 4
10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Foreign Policy Challenges in the 112th Congress: Development and Security, Cynthia Arnson, Director, Latin American Program, Woodrow Wilson Center; Geoff Dabelko, Director, Environmental Change and Security Program, Woodrow Wilson Center; Robert Litwak, Director, International Security Studies, Woodrow Wilson Center; John Sewell, Senior Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center; Michael Van Dusen, Acting President and Director, Woodrow Wilson Center
3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
The Battle for Moscow's Billions: Power and Money in the Russian Capital Under Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, Donald N. Jensen, Senior Fellow Center for Transatlantic Relations, Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
Monday, February 7
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
When Pro-Democracy Organizations Take Power: What Poland and South Africa Should Have Told Us About Georgia, Brian Grodsky, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
Tuesday, February 8
3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Anthologies as a Literary Ontology: the Modern Project of Ukrainian Literature, Olena Haleta, Associate Professor and Director, Literary Theory and Comparative Studies, Ivan Franko Lviv University, Lviv, Ukraine, and Fulbright-Kennan Scholar, Kennan Institute
Wednesday, February 9
3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Practicing Public Interest Law in Russia Today, Anton Burkov, Reagan Fascell Democracy Fellow, National Endowment for Democracy
1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
The Future of U.S.-EU Energy Cooperation, Jeffrey Piper, Desk Officer, DG Energy, European Commission; Ulrich Eckle, Desk Officer, External Action Commission, European Commission; Alexandros Petersen, Adviser, European Energy Security Initiative, Woodrow Wilson Center
Thursday, February 10
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Book Discussion: The Longest War: The Enduring Conflict Between America and Al-Qaeda, Author Peter Bergen, Director, National Security Studies, New America Foundation
Friday, February 11
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
New Book Discussion: Secession as an International Phenomenon: From America's Civil War to Contemporary Separatist Movements, Editor Don Doyle, McCausland Professor of History, University of South Carolina and Public Policy Scholar, Wilson Center; Oleksandr Merezhko, Head, International Law, University of Economics and Law, Kyiv, Ukraine and Kennan Institute Scholar; Andrew Zimmerman, Associate Professor of History and International Affairs, George Washington University
Monday, February 14
12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
New Book Discussion: The National Security Enterprise: Navigating the Labyrinth, Harvey Rishikof, Chair, Department of National Security Strategy and Professor of Law and National Security Studies, National War College; Roger George, National War College and Georgetown University
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
The Rule of Law in Eurasia: Selected Case Studies From Russia, Georgia, and Kyrgyzstan, Catherine Newcombe, Regional Director for Eurasia, Office of Overseas Prosecutorial Development, Assistance and Training (OPDAT), Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice
12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Religious Revival in the 21st Century: What Impact on Politics?, Robin Wright, USIP-Wilson Center Distinguished Scholar and former Luce Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center; Roger Hardy, Luce Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center and former Middle East and Islamic Affairs Analyst, BBC World Service; André Laliberté, Luce Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center and Professor, School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa; Daniel Levine, Luce Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center and James Orin Murfin Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan; José Casanova, Professor, Department of Sociology, Georgetown University and Senior Fellow, Berkley Center's Program on Globalization, Religion and the Secular
Tuesday, February 15
3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
The North Korean Diaspora in Northeast Asia, Apichai Shipper, Visiting Scholar, University of California, Los Angeles; Hazel Smith,Professor, Cranfield University, U.K.; Suzanne Scholte,President, Defense Forum Foundation
Wednesday, February 16
9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Socio-Technical Integration Research Project Workshop 4, Daan Schuurbiers; Wim Vermaas; Antonio Calleja-Lopez; Shreya Bhattacharyya; Rene von Schomberg; Robin Phelps; Robert Bowman; Paul Ellwood; Terry Wilkins; Mike Gorman
Thursday, February 17
9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Socio-Technical Integration Research Project Workshop 4, Daan Schuurbiers; Wim Vermaas; Antonio Calleja-Lopez; Shreya Bhattacharyya; Rene von Schomberg; Robin Phelps; Robert Bowman; Paul Ellwood; Terry Wilkins; Mike Gorman
4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Work in Progress Presentation: U.S. Policy Toward Trade Liberalization, Sino-American Economic Relations, and China's Road to "Reform and Opening," 1969-1976, Dai Chaowu, Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center; Gregg A. Brazinsky, Fellow, Woodrow Wilson Center
Friday, February 18
2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
New Book Discussion: Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City, Author Carla Peterson, Professor of English, University of Maryland; Mary Ryan, Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University; Adele Alexander, Adjunct Professor of History, George Washington University
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Iran Primer III: Iran's Economy/Sanctions Regime, Kevan Harris, Doctoral Candidate in Sociology, Johns Hopkins University; Suzanne Maloney, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, Brookings Institution; Fareed Mohamedi, Partner and Head of Markets Country Strategies Group, PFC Energy
Tuesday, February 22
3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Panel Discussion: "Rethinking Retirement: The Past and Future of Social Security", Andrew Biggs, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute; Charles Blahous, Senior Research Fellow, New America Foundation; Ross Eisenbrey, Vice President, Economic Policy Institute; Heidi Hartmann, President, Institute for Women's Policy Research; Barbara Kennelly, President and CEO, National Committee to Preserve Medicare and Social Security; Mitchell Orenstein, Associate Professor of European Studies, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
All in the Family? Property Struggles and Patronage Politics in Contemporary Kyrgyzstan, Regine Spector, Title VIII-Supported Research Scholar, Kennan Institute
9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
A Reflection on the May 2010 Brazil-Turkey Nuclear Initiative Toward Iran, Monica Herz, Director, International Relations Institute, Catholic University, Rio de Janeiro; Mustafa Kibaroglu, Associate Professor of International Affairs, Bilkent University, Ankara; Nazir Messari, Associate Professor of International Relations, Al Akhawayn University, Efrane, Morocco; Trita Parsi, President, National Iranian-American Council and former Wilson Center Public Policy Scholar; John Limbert, Visiting Distinguished Professor, Departments of History and Political Science, Naval Academy (invited)
3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Carrying Capacity: Should We Be Aiming to Survive or Flourish?, Sir John Sulston FRS, Chair, Institute for Science, Ethics, Innovation, University of Manchester and Chair, Royal Society People and the Planet Working Group
Monday, February 28
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Killed Without Consequence: Why the Murder of Russian Journalists Matters Beyond Russia, Nina Ognianova, Program Coordinator, Europe and Central Asia, Committee to Protect Journalists
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WILSON CENTER NEWS
Wilson Center to Co-Sponsor Special Screening of "Nuremberg: Its Lessons for Today"
On January 31, the Wilson Center and The George Washington University will screen "Nuremberg: Its Lessons for Today." The film, a historic, powerful documentary, was made shortly after World War II for the U.S. War Department and the U.S. military government in Berlin but until recently was not shown in the United States.
U.S. Energy Security Policy: A Global Perspective
Making sure markets are open, fair, and transparent is a key tenet of the Obama administration's global energy security agenda. At a January 11 Director's Forum, State Department special envoy David Goldwyn outlined the United States' plan for energy security policy.
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SCHOLARS IN THE MEDIA
Mubarak Now Only Controls His Exit
USIP-Wilson Center Distinguished Scholar Robin Wright published an op-ed in Politico about the three factors that will influence what happens next in Egypt. She also discussed the topic on KCRW's "To the Point", "Armstrong Getty," BBC's "World News America,", CNN's "The Situation Room," and "The Diane Rehm Show." (1/31)
Death by a Thousand Leaks
Public Policy Scholar Aaron Miller published an opinion piece in The Los Angeles Times about whether the Middle East peace process can survive the recently leaked official Palestinian papers. He also published an op-ed in Politico about the likelihood of the Obama administration "muddling through" the Arab-Israeli peace process; published an op-ed on Foreign Policy advocating empowering Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as a way to create progress in Middle East peace negotiations; and contributed to fora about the State of the Union Address and whether political rhetoric will soften after the Tucson shooting. (1/26)
Who's Going to be Mayor of Chicago?
Senior Scholar Martin Tolchin and Susan Tolchin were interviewed in Examiner Chicago about their book Pinstripe Patronage: Political Favoritism from the Clubhouse to the White House and Beyond." They also appeared on MSNBC's "Hardball With Chris Matthews" to discuss the role of earmarks in the U.S. government. (1/25)
Why the State of the Union Address Matters
Fellow David Greenberg appeared on 88.5 WAMU's "The Kojo Nnamdi Show" to discuss the history of the State of the Union Address. He also published a piece in Slate looking at the motives of political assassins throughout history. (1/25)
Why the Istanbul Talks Failed
Public Policy Scholar Michael Adler published a piece on the blog of "The Iran Primer" analyzing why the talks in Istanbul between Iran and the world's six major powers failed. He also covered the talks for The Daily Beast. (1/23)
How 2011 Could Be Better for Mexico
Mexico Program Senior Associate Eric Olson published an op-ed in The Dallas Morning News about how Mexico and the United States can go about settling Mexico's drug cartel-related violence. (1/19)
Why Developing Countries Need to Tax Foreign Firms
Fulbright Canada Visiting Research Chair Roy Culpeper published a letter to the editor in The Washington Post about ways to reduce Afghanistan's reliance on foreign aid. (1/22)
Mexico: Taming the Drug Cartels
Mexico Institute Director Andrew Selee appeared on PBS's "Ideas in Action" to discuss ways to combat Mexican cartels. (1/21)
'Baby Doc' Duvalier Taken Into Custody in Haiti
José Raúl Perales, Senior Program Associate for the Latin America Program, appeared on NPR's "Talk of the Nation" to discuss Jean Claude Duvalier's return to Haiti and what that might mean for Haiti's troubled political landscape. (1/18)
Expectations of Hu Jintao's Visit
Douglas Spelman, Deputy Director of the Kissinger Institute, appeared on China Daily TV to discuss President Hu Jintao's state visit to Washington. (1/14)
Could Other Arab Countries Follow Tunisia's Example?
Public Policy Scholar Roger Hardy published a piece about a 26-year-old Tunisian graduated immolated himself out of protest, and the incident's impact on the region. (1/14)
Arizona Shooting Shouldn't Stop Government Openness
Senior Scholar Linda Killian published an op-ed on USNews.com urging that the Arizona shooting not affect the ability of the public to meet and speak with their elected officials. She also published an op-ed drawing lessons for the new class of House Republicans from the last time the GOP took over the House of Representatives, in 1994. (1/10)
Treating an Injured Brain Is a Long, Uncertain Process
Fellow Lawrence Altman published a story in The New York Times about treating brain injuries, following the shooting of Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. (1/9)
Does Pakistan Need an Assange of Its Own?
Pakistan Scholar Huma Yusuf published an op-ed in The Daily News Egypt about how the WikiLeaks cables illustrate the need for openness and free journalism in Pakistan. (1/5)
7 Billion and Counting
A video by Environmental Change and Security Program Associate Sean Peoples ran on the New York Times blog "Dot Earth" as part of a piece on the world population hitting 7 billion later this year. (1/8)
The Reality of Algerians in America
Visiting Arab Journalist Rachid Ould Boussiafa published a three-part piece in Echorouk Online about Algerians in America and their role in discourse with the Islamic world. (1/6)
The West Should Follow Poland's Lead on Belarus
Senior Scholar Andrew Michta published an op-ed on the blog of the German Marshall Fund urging the West to act on the civil rights violations committed by Aleksandr Lukashenko in Belarus. (1/3)
The Unsung Heroes: Enterprising Entrepreneurs
Public Policy Scholar Amy Wilkinson published an op-ed on the Washington Post's "On Leadership" blog about entrepreneurs, the unsung heroes of business leadership in 2010. (12/30)
Beyond the Global Brain Drain: The Global Care Drain
United States Studies Director Sonya Michel's article "Beyond the Global Brain Drain: The Global Care Drain," about the trend of women leaving their families behind to work in the care industry in rich countries, was named one of the Globalist Research Center's Top 10 Features of 2010. (12/27)
Realism, Tolerance, Liberalism in the Czech National Awakening
Senior Scholar Zdenek David's book Realism, Tolerance, Liberalism in the Czech National Awakening: Legacies of the Bohemian Reformation was reviewed in the January/February 2011 issue of Foreign Affairs.
Procedural Politics by Don Wolfensberger
Don Wolfensberger, director of the Congress Project, is a contributing writer at Roll Call. Last month he published "Is House Hype Over the Constitution Real?" and Health Care Repeal Process Signals GOP Intent.
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