Internships with the Middle East Program The Wilson Center’s Middle East Program serves as a crucial resource for the policymaking community and beyond, providing analyses and research that helps ...

Finland’s shipyards have the capacity to produce icebreakers quickly and at a reasonable cost. It is estimated that, compared to US icebreaker production underway, the average Finnish icebreaker would ...

On September 17, 1978, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin signed the Camp David Accords, following 13 tough days of negotiation. On September 17, 2003, members of ...

As leaders across the Middle East’s Gulf region strive for economic diversification and modernization, they will have to reckon with the more than thirty million migrant workers responsible for ...

In 2005, the US hastily formulated Iraq’s new constitution. This did not bring “democracy” to Iraq, but rather created a system dependent on divergent sectarian interests. We must ask ourselves when ...

Here’s a bit of a primer—from someone involved in Law of the Sea, research, Arctic policy, and business issues over the last few decades—about what’s at stake. My disclaimer: I’m not a lawyer, but the ...

Seven of the eight Arctic nations are members of NATO yet collectively, they trail Russia's ice-breaker capacity. This was even before adding in the icebreakers China has built as it proclaims itself ...

Solar radiation management (SRM) is an idea born of desperation. It is also an idea that demands consideration as the global community grapples with an ongoing and accelerating climate crisis. This ...

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 ...

The expansion and persistence of slums in Mumbai is primarily a function of failed housing policies combined with other political factors, writes Fellow Yue Zhang.

What is the status of ISIS in the Middle East and North Africa at the end of 2021? Which branches or affiliates were the most active? Which the least active? What kind of attacks or activities has ...

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 ...