 |  | Boosting GDP and keeping Social Security solvent depend on the economic activity of migrants—as workers, consumers, and taxpayers, panelists said at the latest National Conversation in Miami. moreTranscript | Video | |  | Video Q&A // February 6, 2012 Beating President Hugo Chávez means striking an emotional link stronger than the charismatic incumbent's enduring populist appeal, says Caracas pollster Luis Vicente León. And it requires convincingly sticking Venezuela's chronic ills to his decade-plus rule. For Venezuela's historically divided opposition, which enters a key test of unity this weekend, one-upping Chávez in the hearts of voters will be vital to winning this fall's presidential election. León and William H. Luers, former U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela, gauge the current field of candidates and look ahead to October's general election. |  | Video Q&A // February 8, 2012 The threat of military confrontation between Iran and the U.S. is real, as bilateral relations touch a low point on Iran's pursuit of a nuclear weapon, says Trita Parsi, founder of the National Iranian American Council. A former Wilson Center public policy scholar, Parsi questions whether efforts to negotiate and engage with Iran have hastened conflict, making war a more real risk than under the Bush administration, which employed a more hardline approach to Iran. |  | Event/Video // February 8, 2012 Mexico's economy is on solid footing, with a mid-term outlook calling for modest growth outpacing modest inflation, former Mexico Finance Minister Pedro Aspe told an audience at The Wilson Center on Wednesday. Aspe cited renewed competitiveness in the Mexican manufacturing sector, especially in light industrial goods, and a projected decrease in the country's labor surplus as reasons behind the optimism. He was speaking as part of the Wilson Center Mexico Institute's Dialogos con México/Dialogues with Mexico speakers series. |  | Audio // February 6, 2012 "A unilateral Israeli strike is possible but it is not probable," Public Policy Scholar Aaron David Miller tells NPR's The Diane Rehm Show. "This is still a war of discretion when it comes to Israeli calculations...the risks and consequences of an Israeli attack right now are still extremely sketchy." Miller was also joined by USIP-Wilson Center Distinguished Scholar Robin Wright to discuss diplomatic efforts to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons and the possibility of armed conflict. | Wilson in the News | Gutierrez was one of five experts on migration issues involved in the conference, "Still An Immigrant Nation? How Immigration Is Shaping America's Character in the 21st Century, organized by the University of Miami and the Wilson Center in Washington. Among the guests were Michael Chertoff, former Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS), Antonia Hernandez, president of the California Community Foundation, and Thomas McLarty, former chief of staff under President Bill Clinton. | Syria's opposition is still too fractured to pose a viable political alternative to President Bashar al-Assad, in spite of the mass killings of civilians in Homs and elsewhere, Wilson Center expert Robin Wright tells CNN's Piers Morgan. | Not all of Syria's neighbors have upheld the sanctions. "There is no way that they can convince Lebanon to stop or slow down the trade," says Haleh Esfandiari, director of the Middle East program at the Woodrow Wilson Center. | One year after Mubarak stepped down from power, Meet the Press at Brookings looks at what can be learned from the Egyptian revolution, the many challenges that still remain for the struggling democracy, the role of the United States in similar conflicts and the greater implications for the region at large. The panel discussion includes insights and analysis from Robin Wright, author of Rock the Casbah: Rage and Rebellion across the Islamic World (Simon Schuster, 2011) and joint fellow at the United States Institute of Peace and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. | "This would probably be the most serious set of tensions between the U.S. and Egypt since the 1970s," following the 1973 Yom Kippur War, said former Mideast peace negotiator Aaron David Miller of the Wilson Center. | A dramatic visit by U.N. inspectors to Iran amid rising international tension failed to get answers about whether Iran seeks the bomb, writes Public Policy Scholar Michael Adler. This raises concerns the Islamic Republic may be trying to delay tough economic sanctions against it rather than responding to the growing international suspicion about its nuclear ambitions. | "It injects a certain new note of uncertainty. There's never been a strong female presidential candidate for any other major party before," said Eric Olson, a senior associate at the Woodrow Wilson Center's Mexico Institute. "It adds that historical element and maybe some excitement." | "The administration has focused on capturing, killing, extraditing people and has argued that the violence is a regrettable but necessary piece to that strategy," said Eric Olson, a Mexico expert at the nonpartisan Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. "But if you lost a daughter, son, brother or sister, it's not a satisfying argument. It's hard to convince the Mexican public that this is success." | More than one report from an august body of experts has gathered dust in Washington, D.C. But the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, a public policy think tank based in the U.S. capital, today is setting out to make sure that does not happen when the subject is synthetic biology. The center today launched a "scorecard" that will monitor the progress made on 18 recommendations proposed in December, 2010 by the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues. | "The Green Revolution was a great success in that it ramped up agricultural investment and it ramped up productivity. There was plenty of food to go around," said Michael Kugelman, program associate for the Asia Center at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars. "The problem is the Green Revolution used a lot of chemical (and) industrial agriculture and it used up a lot of arable farmland." | | | | | | Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
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