New Security Challenges in Asia
New security challenges are increasingly important in U.S. security planning. Transnational threats that do not arise from national rivalries or involve geopolitical competition—climate change, food...
View ArticleConference Report: African Women and Youth as Agents of Change through...
On May 1, 2013, the Africa Program and the Project on Leadership and Building State Capacity (Leadership Project) at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (Wilson Center) sought to...
View ArticleThe Other Population Crisis: What Governments Can Do about Falling Birth Rates
In many developed countries, population decline poses economic and social strains and may even threaten national security. Through historical-political case studies of Sweden, France, Italy, Japan, and...
View ArticleContested Frontiers in the Syria-Lebanon-Israel Region: Cartography,...
Contested Frontiers in the Syria-Lebanon-Israel Region studies one of the flash points of the Middle East since the 1960s—a tiny region of roughly 100 square kilometers where Syria, Lebanon, and Israel...
View ArticlePakistan's Urbanization: Housing for the Low-Income
Pakistan is South Asia’s most rapidly urbanizing country. In barely 10 years, nearly 50 percent of its 180 million people will live in cities (a third do today). Tasneem Siddiqui, former chief...
View ArticleSmartness in Three Flavors
This blog is part of a series Global Communities: Accelerating Innovation in the Internet of Cities which discusses how cities can learn, adopt and transfer innovations between each other in order to...
View ArticleDawn of the Smart City? Perspectives From New York, Ahmedabad, São Paulo, and...
Rapid growth and environmental change are creating new challenges for urban areas around the world. From climate change adaptation and crime prevention to the integration of new residents, much is...
View ArticleRussia: The World's Second-Largest Immigration Haven
“Immigrants aren't rushing to Moscow in search of opportunity”—President Obama recently stated in an interview with The Economist, while making a larger point about Russia’s receding role in the world....
View ArticleReport of Activities 2011-2013
Highlighting all major events, Awards Dinners and Special Initiatives, the 2011-2013 Report of Activities gives a comprehensive report on what the Brazil Institute has done in the last two years.
View ArticleGoverning the Horn of Africa’s Lowlands: Land Investments and Villagization...
"Since 2001, the Ethiopian government has been committed to building a “developmental state,” one with a strong state-led macro-economic plan, much like that of East Asian countries. After 2005, the...
View ArticleConference Report: African Women and Youth as Agents of Change through...
On May 1, 2013, the Africa Program and the Project on Leadership and Building State Capacity (Leadership Project) at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (Wilson Center) sought to...
View ArticleThe Other Population Crisis: What Governments Can Do about Falling Birth Rates
In many developed countries, population decline poses economic and social strains and may even threaten national security. Through historical-political case studies of Sweden, France, Italy, Japan, and...
View ArticleContested Frontiers in the Syria-Lebanon-Israel Region: Cartography,...
Contested Frontiers in the Syria-Lebanon-Israel Region studies one of the flash points of the Middle East since the 1960s—a tiny region of roughly 100 square kilometers where Syria, Lebanon, and Israel...
View ArticlePakistan's Urbanization: Housing for the Low-Income
Pakistan is South Asia’s most rapidly urbanizing country. In barely 10 years, nearly 50 percent of its 180 million people will live in cities (a third do today). Tasneem Siddiqui, former chief...
View ArticleSmartness in Three Flavors
This blog is part of a series Global Communities: Accelerating Innovation in the Internet of Cities which discusses how cities can learn, adopt and transfer innovations between each other in order to...
View ArticleDawn of the Smart City? Perspectives From New York, Ahmedabad, São Paulo, and...
Rapid growth and environmental change are creating new challenges for urban areas around the world. From climate change adaptation and crime prevention to the integration of new residents, much is...
View ArticleRussia: The World's Second-Largest Immigration Haven
“Immigrants aren't rushing to Moscow in search of opportunity”—President Obama recently stated in an interview with The Economist, while making a larger point about Russia’s receding role in the world....
View ArticleGoverning the Horn of Africa’s Lowlands: Land Investments and Villagization...
"Since 2001, the Ethiopian government has been committed to building a “developmental state,” one with a strong state-led macro-economic plan, much like that of East Asian countries. After 2005, the...
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