About the Wilson Center
Chartered by Congress, the Wilson Center provides nonpartisan counsel and insights on global affairs to policymakers through deep research, impartial analysis, and independent scholarship.
The Wilson Center occupies a unique place in US foreign policy—we are congressionally chartered, scholarship driven, and fiercely nonpartisan. It is our mission to help policymakers and stakeholders make sense of global developments. We are driven to offer the insights and analysis that can inform decision-making and forge a stronger America and more secure world.
Throughout 2023, the Wilson Center's scholarship-driven, nonpartisan analysis provided critical context to the world's most pressing challenges. With a focus on Ukraine's place in Europe, the Israel-Hamas war, and the state of democracy around the globe, Wilson Center staff, scholars, and its expansive community of multi-disciplinary experts responded to quickly moving world events to bring points of clarity.
Read the report"Much of the public’s attention is focused on some of the daunting challenges we face on the world stage. But there are also many reasons to be hopeful—and optimistic,” writes Wilson Center President & CEO Ambassador Mark A. Green in his introduction to our new publication where leaders from across the Wilson Center’s programs and initiatives offer just a few of the many reasons we see to be hopeful for 2025 and beyond.
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