Under Siege: U.S.-Mexico Relations & National Security with Eric L. Olson on Tues. March 16
Posted on February 11, 2010 | Filed Under Events
Mexico is growing more dangerous daily, with escalating kidnappings, murders and other drug-related violence. Recently, a failed kidnapping attempt left seven gunmen and a federal police officer dead. In Ciudad Juarez, 15 teens were killed when a gunman stormed a party at a private home.
The situation has intensified since Mexican President Felipe Calderon declared war on the drug cartels in 2007, deploying 45,000 troops to 18 states where trafficking groups are battling for access to the U.S. market.
Eric L. Olson, Senior Advisor at the Mexico Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., will address these headline issues and more on Tuesday, March 16, 2010 at 6:00 P.M. (Great Decisions at 5:00P.M.)
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Ukraine and Russia: Politics and Conflict in a Post-Soviet World on February 4, 2010
Posted on January 4, 2010 | Filed Under Events
As seen in THE WALL STREET JOURNAL on
January 27, 2010: “Ukraine Needs the West’s Support“
One of the largest countries in Europe and a critical transportation point for natural gas from Russia, Ukraine has long been a centerpiece in the struggle for influence in the post-Soviet region.
Now, fractured politics and a disintegrating economy have strained relations with Russia and alarmed its European partners. Ukraine’s future largely hangs on a February runoff when two rivals will go head to head for the Ukrainian Presidency.
Will a disillusioned public and a diminished economy force-out leaders of the Orange Revolution and allow Russia to regain its traditional leadership role in the region?
Join WACRI and DR. MARK KRAMER, Director of the Harvard Cold War Studies program and a Senior Fellow of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University on Thursday, February 4, 2009 at 6:00 p.m. for a timely program on politics and conflict in a post-Soviet world.
Saved by the Sun? The Global Climate Change Debate Heats Up.
Posted on December 9, 2009 | Filed Under Events
Recognized as perhaps the single greatest challenge of our time, climate change is no longer just a scientific curiosity but a vast and far reaching environmental concern whose influence could have disastrous consequences on world health and safety, food production, security and the global economy. So how can the world combat such an extraordinary challenge?
Evan I. Schwartz, producer and writer of the acclaimed PBS NOVA documentary Saved by the Sun, has a solution: Cool down the planet using the hottest thing in the solar system. Read more.
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