As middle powers like Canada and Britain pivot to Beijing, they face a high-stakes balance between strategic leverage and economic risk, writes Anka Lee.

At the 2026 Winter Olympic Games, hospitality houses including the Italian NOC's Casa Italia and China House's tech-focused exhibit compete to transform soft power into tangible international influenc ...

Visiting Fellows bring expertise from the academic, policy, journalistic, and private sector communities to the Wilson Center to address urgent challenges in US foreign policy. Awarded by invitation ...

Bruna Santos is the former Director at the Brazil Institute. Before joining the Brazil Institute, she served as Vice-President and Innovation Director at the National School of Public Administration ...

Sarah B. Barnes is the former Director of the Maternal Health Initiative (MHI) at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, in Washington, DC, where she leads the programs’ research and ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is more than a technological breakthrough—it is a transformative force shaping the future economy, security landscape, global power dynamics, and daily life. The US, along ...

For many years now, the five Arctic Coastal states have conducted bathymetric and geologic work in the Arctic Ocean region toward what some observers have—alarmingly but falsely—called a competitive ...

On August 1, 1975, the Helsinki Final Act (also known as the Helsinki Accords) was signed by 35 countries. The Helsinki Final Act was the outcome of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in ...

Since its creation in December 1987, Hamas has invoked militant interpretations of Islam to spearhead a Sunni extremist movement committed to destroying Israel. Hamas distanced itself from the ...

New Zealand's refusal to allow the USS Buchanan to dock in 1985 sparked a diplomatic spat between Wellington and Washington. Henry Cronic examines how the United States navigated New Zealand's ...

Russia’s recruitment of soldiers to fight in its war in Ukraine has disproportionately drawn from the country’s Indigenous peoples. Individuals from these communities—most notably Buryats, Tuvans, ...

Christopher Solomon chronicles the evolution of Hayat Tahrir al Sham in Syria. HTS is a hardline group committed to replacing the Assad government with an Islamic state. As a fighting force, HTS has ...