With just about everyone expecting the need for a runoff, it came as a significant surprise when moderate presidential candidate Hassan Rouhani captured more than 50 percent of the vote. Haleh Esfandiari, the Wilson Center’s Middle East Program Director, provides context. Read More
Wilson Center Experts
Haleh Esfandiari
Director, Middle East Program
"These programs are geared toward foreign terrorists who are trying to attack us," said Jane Harman on BBC News in response to the recently revealed U.S. surveillance program. Read More
Wilson Center Experts
Jane Harman
Director, President and CEO
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of President Wilson’s inauguration, the Center convened two expert panels on the enduring legacies of Wilson’s foreign and domestic policies. Speakers included Brent Scowcroft, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Alan Greenspan, and David Levering Lewis. Read More
Wilson Center Experts
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Jane Harman
Director, President and CEO
"The commentariat is looking for ways to press the administration to act. Their arguments are largely correct: Syria is indeed a moral, humanitarian, and strategic disaster. But their prescription for action is long on generalities and short on specifics," writes Aaron David Miller in a Foreign Policy op-ed. Read More
Wilson Center Experts
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Jane Harman
Director, President and CEO 
Aaron David Miller
Vice President for New Initiatives and Distinguished Scholar
The Supreme Court just ruled that human DNA can't be patented, but that synthetic DNA can. What is synthetic DNA, why is it controversial, and why does it matter to you? Read More
Wilson Center Experts
Eleonore Pauwels
Program Associate
Todd Kuiken, Ph.D.
Senior Program Associate, Science and Technology Innovation Program
A new multimedia report from the Wilson Center and Circle of Blue, “Choke Point: India,” finds that achieving food abundance is overwhelming India’s mammoth and unwieldy bureaucracy, draining its freshwater reserves, and straining the energy sector and electrical grid. Read More
Wilson Center Experts
Michael Kugelman
Senior Program Associate
Jennifer L. Turner
Director, China Environment Forum
Rarely has there been a time where so many parts of the Middle East seem to be moving all at once. Civil war in Syria, the impact of the Arab Spring, the impasse in Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, and the Iranian nuclear issue all offer up challenges without quick or easy solutions. In this Director's Forum, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert shares his views on these and other regional issues. Read More
Wilson Center Experts
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Aaron David Miller
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Jane Harman
Director, President and CEO
In this Director's Forum, Members of Parliament from Myanmar discuss the current political situation in their country and the road ahead. Read More
Wilson Center Experts
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Michael Kugelman
Senior Program Associate for South and Southeast Asia, Asia Program 
Marvin Ott
Senior Scholar
More Research, Analysis and Commentary
New Fellows
2013 – 2014 Fellowship Class Is Announced
Jane Harman, director, president & CEO of the Wilson Center, is pleased to announce the members of the 2013-2014 fellowship class. The 21 fellows, most of whom are expected to start September 2013, include scholars and practitioners from the United States, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, the Netherlands, and New Zealand. Read More
U.S. Special Ops
U.S. Special Operations 2020
U.S. Special Operations 2020--- Admiral William McRaven, Commander of U.S. Special Operations Command lays out his vision for Special Operations Forces and the Command. A panel of experts, including Admiral McRaven, discusses the vision from a number of different perspectives. Read More
When Oil Causes War
Petro-Aggression
“America has the unfortunate habit of getting into war with oil-exporting states,” said Jeff Colgan at the Wilson Center for the launch of his new book, Petro-Aggression. Understanding the dynamics of petrostates’ aggressive behavior is therefore a vital security interest. Read More
Women Deliver
Women Working Together to Save Lives
Women Deliver—the largest women’s health conference, held last week in Malaysia—offered new evidence that improving maternal and reproductive health can reduce poverty, increase equality, and save lives around the world. Read More
U.S.-Mexico Border
How Well Do You Understand the U.S.-Mexico Border?
In this Context interview, Wilson Center Vice President of Programs Andrew Selee discusses common misperceptions about the U.S.-Mexico border. Read More
Pakistan Election
Pakistan's Historic Election
Senior Program Associate for South Asia Michael Kugelman analyzed the results of the Pakistani elections and how it would affect the U.S. relationship with Pakistan in a video interview with The Washington Post. Read More
Keystone XL Pipeline
New Poll: Reducing Foreign Oil Trumps Greenhouse Gas
A new poll on the Keystone XL pipeline conducted by Public Policy Scholar Nik Nanos suggests that energy security trumps the concern about greenhouse gas emission among both Americans and Canadians. Read More
Firearms Trafficking
Central American Leaders Must Step Up to Ensure Security
"The United States must respond forcefully and with resources to the security dilemmas it has helped create in Central America. But political, economic, and civic leaders there must together build the healthy foundation for prosperity and security at home," writes Cynthia Arnson and Eric Olson on CNN.com. Read More
Features
A Conversation on Woodrow Wilson's Policies
A Conversation on Woodrow Wilson's Policies
Discussion featuring Anne-Marie Slaughter, Brent Scowcroft, Alan Greenspan and others.
Iran Election Update
2013 Iranian Presidential Election
The Middle East Program offers daily news on the Iranian presidential election of June 2013, based on a selection of Iranian news sources.
The Great Game, 1856–1907
The Great Game, 1856–1907
Evgeny Sergeev
"The Great Game, 1856–1907" presents a new view of the British-Russian competition for dominance in Central Asia in the second half of the nineteenth century.
"The Great Game, 1856–1907" presents a new view of the British-Russian competition for dominance in Central Asia in the second half of the nineteenth century.
The Islamists Are Coming
The Islamists Are Coming is the first book to survey the rise of Islamist groups in the wake of the Arab Spring. Often lumped together, the more than 50 Islamist parties with millions of followers now constitute a whole new spectrum—separate from either militants or secular parties...
