Wilson Center Now's Podcast

In this edition of Wilson Center NOW, we are joined by Bradley Jardine, Global Fellow with the Wilson Center’s Kissinger Institute.  He discusses his latest book, Great Wall of Steel: China’s Global Campaign to Suppress the Uyghurs, which highlights the dramatic increase in China's strategic targeting of the Uyghur Muslim population since 1997 and how this targeting has increasingly crossed international borders.

In this edition of Wilson Center NOW, we are joined by Southern Voices Network for Peacebuilding (SVNP) scholars Yared Debebe Yetena, Sandra Tumwesigye , and Awet Halefom Kahsay. They highlight their research while in residence at the Wilson Center and discuss how collaboration with colleagues at the Center and in Washington D.C. has supported their projects.  The SVNP is a continent-wide network of African policy, research, and academic organizations that works with the Wilson Center’s Africa Program to bring African knowledge and perspectives to U.S., African, and international policy on peacebuilding in Africa. 

In this edition of Wilson Center NOW, we are joined by Laura Elena Carrillo Cubillas, Executive Director, of the Mexican Agency of International Cooperation for Development (AMEXCID). She discusses the organization’s role in providing development aid in the region, partnerships with USAID and similar global agencies, and AMEXCID initiatives that bolster socioeconomic capacity through educational, cultural, social, and financial initiatives. Mexico Institute director Andrew Rudman also joins the conversation. 

In this edition of Wilson Center NOW, we are joined by Michael Kugelman, Deputy Director of the Asia Program and Senior Associate for South Asia at the Wilson Center.  He discusses Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s removal after a no-confidence vote and what to expect from the Shehbaz Sharif administration.  Kugelman also discusses U.S.-India relations in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.  

In this edition of Wilson Center NOW, we are joined by James Hollifield, Global Fellow with the Global Risk and Resilience Program. Jim is a Professor of Political Science, the Arnold Chair in International Political Economy, and Director of the Tower Center at Southern Methodist University. He discusses the refugee crisis stemming from the Russian invasion of Ukraine and how Eastern Europe, the European Union, and nations around the world have responded.

In this edition of Wilson Center NOW, we are joined by Distinguished Fellow Bruce Jentleson and Public Policy Fellow Meg Lundsager.  They discuss the rapid implementation of sanctions by the U.S. and Europe on Russia after its attack on Ukraine.  What are the short term and long-term implications for Vladimir Putin, Russia’s oligarchs, and average Russian citizens? And can the sanctions lead to the end of the invasion of Ukraine?

In this edition of Wilson Center NOW, we are joined by Wilson Quarterly editor Stephanie Bowen and contributor and journalist Melody Schreiber.  We discuss the Winter 2022 edition of the Quarterly titled “The New North,” which focuses on Arctic issues.  Melody also highlights her article, “Setting Our Sights by the Northern Lights: Struggles and Solutions from the Arctic’s Pandemic Experience.”

In this edition of Wilson Center NOW, Latin American Fellow Niambi Carter discusses where American society stands in dealing with its long struggles with racial inclusion and equality.  Also joining us is Karen Dale, Chief Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer for AmeriHealth Caritas. She provides an update on her company’s efforts to establish an equity, diversity, and inclusion program across the organization.

In this edition of Wilson Center NOW, we are joined by Steven Philip Kramer and William Drozdiak, Global Fellows with the Wilson Center's Global Europe Program. They discuss the upcoming presidential election in France, the collapse of traditional French political parties, and what Macron’s agenda for a second term could encompass if reelected.

In this edition of Wilson Center NOW, we are joined by Andrey Shlyakhter, Former Title VIII Research Scholar, and Dina Abramowicz Emerging Scholar Fellow in Eastern European Jewish Studies at YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. He discusses his Wilson Center project, “Smuggling Across the Soviet Borders: Contraband Trades, Soviet Solutions, and the Shadow Economic Origins of the Iron Curtain, 1917-1932.” 

In this edition of Wilson Center NOW, we are joined by Jason Steinhauer, Global Fellow, and Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the History Communication Institute. He discusses his new book "History, Disrupted: How Social Media and the World Wide Web Have Changed the Past." The book examines how an internet that privileges signals of attention and getting noticed is currently shaping the study of the past and e-History.

In this edition of Wilson Center NOW, we are joined by Jonathan Brunstedt, former Title VIII Research Scholar with the Kennan Institute and Assistant Professor of History at Texas A&M University. He discusses his Wilson Center project, “Entangled Defeats: The Soviet-Afghan War and the Shadow of Vietnam." Jonathan also highlights his most recent book, “The Soviet Myth of World War II: Patriotic Memory and the Russian Question in the USSR,” which examines official notions of patriotism and patriotic identity in the USSR through the lens of World War II's public remembrance.

In this edition of Wilson Center NOW, we are joined by Middle East Fellow David Ottaway.  He discusses his latest book, “Mohammed bin Salman: The Icarus of Saudi Arabia?,” which examines if MBS is a social reformer determined to bring his country into the twenty-first century or a brutal dictator in the making? 

In this edition of Wilson Center NOW, we are joined by Sue Mi Terry, Director of the Hyundai Motor-Korea Foundation Center for Korean History and Public Policy.  She discusses the increasing global appeal and reach of South Korean pop culture including music, film, gaming, and sports. Terry describes how this soft power is increasingly seen by the South Korean government as a source of strength and influence on the international stage.

In this edition of Wilson Center NOW, our guests are Anders Beal, Andrea Capurro, and Maximiliano Bello. Anders describes a new project from the Latin American Program, Latin America’s Environmental Policies in Global Perspective. Andrea and Max discuss their contributions to the project, focusing on ocean health issues. The project is co-sponsored by the Brazil Institute, Environmental Change and Security Program, China Environment Forum, and Global Europe Program. It explores how environmental challenges in Latin America increasingly influence the region’s most important diplomatic and economic relationships.

In this edition of Wilson Center NOW, we are joined by Michael Sfraga, Founding Director of the Polar Institute and Director of the Global Risk and Resilience Program. President Biden also recently appointed Dr. Sfraga as Chairman of the United States Arctic Research Commission. We discuss why the Arctic increasingly plays a larger role in geopolitical competition, what the COP26 agreement means for the rapidly changing Arctic environment, and Mike's new role with the USARC.

In this edition of Wilson Center NOW, we are joined by environmental journalist and author Sharon Guynup.  Guynup is also a Global Fellow with the Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program and the Global Risk and Resilience Program. She discusses the future of global pandemics and the increased threat from zoonotic diseases to human populations in an increasingly developed world. 

In this edition of Wilson Center NOW, we are joined by Hallam Ferguson, Public Policy Fellow with the Middle East Program and former Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator, USAID.  He discusses the latest on Afghan refugees and the continued plight of those trying to flee Afghanistan under the Taliban.  We also highlight his recent Wilson Quarterly article, “The Long Road from Afghanistan to Albania.”

In this edition of Wilson Center NOW, we are joined by Abe Denmark, Vice President of Programs and Director of Studies and Senior Advisor to the Asia Program, who gives us an update on the recent China hypersonic missile test and the latest in continued tensions between China, the U.S., and its allies in the Indo-Pacific concerning Taiwan.  We also preview his new role at the Center and discuss how he views the Wilson Center’s place in the evolving think tank landscape in DC.

In this edition of Wilson Center NOW, we are joined by Shihoko Goto, Meg Lundsager, andSuman Bery.  They recap the recently concluded 2021 Annual Meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund and discuss how these institutions are addressing concerns such as climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic, and debt sustainability for advanced and emerging economies around the world.