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East European Studies Short-term Research Scholarships
Jun 07, 2013
The Wilson Center's European Studies Program is now accepting applications for the EES Short-term Grant competition, which is open to academic experts and practitioners, including advanced graduate students, engaged in specialized research requiring access to Washington, DC and its research institutions. Grants are for one month and include residence at the Wilson Center. Candidates must be U.S. citizens, in order to be considered eligible for this grant opportunity. The deadline for this grant cycle is: September 1, 2013. more
Donga Daily Carries Profile of NKIDP Coordinator James Person
Jun 03, 2013
Donga Daily recently carried a profile of NKIDP Coordinator James Person, highlighting Person's research on the origins and evolution of North Korea’s Juche ideology as well as the recent work of NKIDP. more
NKIDP Senior Adviser Mitchell Lerner Publishes on Sino-North Korean Relations in The Diplomat
May 31, 2013
NKIDP Senior Adviser Mitchell Lerner writes in The Diplomat that policymakers need to "recognize that China’s influence on Pyongyang is much more limited than conventional wisdom holds." more
East European Studies Short-term Research Scholarships
Jun 07, 2013The Wilson Center's European Studies Program is now accepting applications for the EES Short-term Grant competition, which is open to academic experts and practitioners, including advanced graduate students, engaged in specialized research requiring access to Washington, DC and its research institutions. Grants are for one month and include residence at the Wilson Center. Candidates must be U.S. citizens, in order to be considered eligible for this grant opportunity. The deadline for this grant cycle is: September 1, 2013.
Donga Daily Carries Profile of NKIDP Coordinator James Person
Jun 03, 2013Donga Daily recently carried a profile of NKIDP Coordinator James Person, highlighting Person's research on the origins and evolution of North Korea’s Juche ideology as well as the recent work of NKIDP.
NKIDP Senior Adviser Mitchell Lerner Publishes on Sino-North Korean Relations in The Diplomat
May 31, 2013NKIDP Senior Adviser Mitchell Lerner writes in The Diplomat that policymakers need to "recognize that China’s influence on Pyongyang is much more limited than conventional wisdom holds."
Op-ed: From distant neighbors to intimate strangers - Mexico Institute in the News (Spanish)
May 12, 2013Mexico and the United States are no longer “distant neighbors” but have become “intimate strangers,” tied together by intense ties across the border but with limited understanding of each other, writes Andrew Selee in an op-ed in the Mexican newspaper El Universal.
Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam
September 05, 2012 // 4:00pm — 5:30pm
Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for History.
How Turkey’s Islamists Fell out of love with Iran: The Near Future of Turkish-Iranian Relations
April 23, 2013 // 3:00pm — 4:00pm
After the 1979 revolution, Iran’s Islamist regime emerged as the clear anti-thesis of a secular Turkey and two countries’ relationship was only sustained by political Islamists on both sides. According to Akin Unver, this 1979-2010 Islamist connection is also being reversed by the sectarian faultlines unearthed by the Arab Spring. Iran’s rapid fall from grace with Turkish Islamists is one of the most important recent structural shifts in the Middle East, Unver suggests. Such a break is far from marginal and yields several important points for consideration.
The Power of Weak States in International Politics: Eastern Europe in the 20th Century
April 04, 2013 // 12:00pm — 1:00pm
"Weak states can be both policy takers and, occasionally, policy makers," argues Laszlo Borhi in a presentation examining weak states in East Central Europe in the 20th century. Focusing on several case studies, Borhi looks at three periods: the aftermath of World War I and World War II and the post-1989 era.
e-Dossier No. 39 - Poland and Romania: The Loyal Republic and the Maverick
CWIHP is pleased to announce the release of fourteen new documents translated into English for the first time. Adam Burakowski introduces this collection drawn from the Archives of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs focused on Poland's troubled relations with Romania. The documents show that interactions within the Soviet Bloc were much more complicated than many analysts have assumed.
Soviet Policy Toward Syria, 1976-1986: Factionalism and the Limits of Influence (1986)
Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; Kennan Institute Occasional Paper Series #212, 1986. PDF 44 pages.
Is the Soviet Union Really a Threat to Asia? (1986)
Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; Kennan Institute Occasional Paper Series #209, 1986. PDF 22 pages.
Wilson Forum - Human Trafficking and a Regional Look at the Post-Soviet World
William Pomeranz, Acting Director of the Kennan Institute, discusses political and economic trends in post-Soviet countries. Lauren McCarthy, research scholar with the Kennan Institute, discusses continuing problems with human trafficking and slave labor in the Russian Federation.
President Nixon Visits China: The Week That Changed the World
J. Stapleton Roy, Director of the Kissinger Institute on China and the United States; Douglas Spelman, Deputy Director of the Kissinger Institute; Yafeng Xia, Associate Professor of History at Long Island University in New York.
Anna-Mart Van Wyk
Senior Lecturer and Head, International Studies, School of Arts, Monash University, South Africa
Anna-Mart van Wyk is a senior lecturer and chair of International Studies at Monash University’s South African campus, where she teaches courses on arms control and international security, diplomacy in international relations, and post-1945 world history. Presently, she is a public policy scholar at...