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Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…
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February 2, 2023
Brazil
Religion and Foreign Policy Webinar: Lula's Presidency and the Future of Brazil
Nick Zimmerman, senior advisor at WestExec Advisors and global fellow at the Wilson Center’s Brazil Institute, and Amy Erica Smith, liberal arts and sciences dean’s professor and associate professor …
January 9, 2023
Elections and Voting
The 118th Congress by the Numbers
A new Congress brings new faces to Washington, DC.
October 13, 2022
Brazil
A Test for Democracy: Brazilian Presidential Elections
Ahead of the October 30 runoff, our panelists discuss Brazil’s presidential elections, the implications for Brazilian democracy, and how the results will affect relations with the United States.
July 1, 2021
Nigeria
Nigeria’s Northern Elders Forum: Keeping the Igbo is Not Worth a Civil War
On June 9, following a closed-door meeting, the Northern Elders Forum (NEF) issued a public statement that the Igbo-dominated southeast should be allowed to secede from the Federal Republic of Nigeria if it was necessary to avoid a civil war. NEF spokesman Hakeem Baba-Ahmed said “the Forum has arrived at the difficult conclusion that if support for secession among the Igbo is as widespread as it is being made to look, and Igbo leadership appears to be in support of it, then the country should be advised not to stand in the way.”
January 16, 2020
United States
Five Questions About the Senate Impeachment Trial Answered
The impeachment trial of President Donald Trump began today as the House trial managers read the articles of impeachment on the Senate floor and Chief Justice John Roberts swore in ninety-nine U.S. s…
