Program
Events
The 2008 Elections: Balancing Promises and Policy on Trade and Security
June 03, 2008 // 4:00pm — 5:15pm
with Charlie Cook, editor and publisher of The Cook Political Report; Stan Greenberg, chairman and CEO, Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research; Glen Bolger, managing partner, Public Opinion Strategies; Robert Litwak, director of International Security Studies at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
The 2008 Elections: Balancing Promises and Policy on Trade and Security
Inaugural Event of the Wilson Center on the Hill Program
Trade and Development in Africa: Congressional Study Trip to Ghana and Liberia
The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (Wilson Center) sponsored a congressional study trip to Ghana and Liberia from March 20 to March 26, 2011. It was organized by Wilson Center on the Hill and the Africa Program at the Wilson Center. This trip was funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.
Wilson Center Holds Seminars on the Hill
The new initiative Wilson Center on the Hill is bringing Center programming on the latest topics to Capitol Hill to help inform policymakers and their staff on their own turf. The nonpartisan forum tackles specific, timely issues related to foreign policy, economics, and the environment.
U.S.-Russian Relations: The Legacy of Jackson-Vanik
A landmark achievement for human rights, the Jackson-Vanik Amendment to the Trade Act of 1974 makes favorable trade status conditional on the freedom of emigration. Some 35 years later, the amendment is still in effect for certain nations, including Russia, which has complicated the U.S.-Russia trade relationship.The Kennan Institute has organized multiple panel discussions on this pressing issue; please see the links below for more information.
Why We're Bringing Programming to the Hill
Wilson Center on the Hill Director Kent Hughes discusses the concept of this new program, which, in the spirit of the Wilson Center's mission, is bringing scholarship to the policy community.
U.S. Foreign Policy Challenges in the 111th Congress
In two seminars on Capitol Hill, Wilson Center experts discussed priority issues for developed and developing countries in light of the global economic crisis—issues that will or should be on President Obama's radar as his administration crafts its foreign policy.
