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How To Lose the Information War - Book chat with Nina Jankowicz Jul 21, 2020

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Nina Jankowicz comes back to discuss her new book "How To Lose the Information War." It's a fun discussion about human nature, regulation, great powers, we even throw a little Shakespeare in there. Something to add to your summer reading list!

AMLO Visits the US, So Mexico Experts Visit Us Jul 07, 2020

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Duncan Wood and Chris Wilson come back to help us understand how a dip in the Mexican economy can affect USMCA implementation and how a visit from the Mexican President to the US plays politically in Mexico. Interesting stuff.

This presentation and interview are taken from a briefing we conducted over zoom last week. So references to a visit "next week" refer to this week of July 5th.

Deadly Companions - Pandemics Changing History Jul 02, 2020

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We are living through a historic moment. In this episode, I talk with author Dorothy Crawford, who wrote an excellent book called "Deadly Companions: How Microbes Have Shaped Our History." She does an amazing job at providing a historical context to how pandemics shape human actions and civilization. I highly recommend taking a look at her book, where she predicted this current pandemic as being a coronavirus related to the SARS outbreak in the 2000s.

All About the Relationships: The China India Border Dispute Jun 19, 2020

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Asia Program Deputy Director Michael Kugelman explains the border dispute between China and India, which leads to an explanation of the complex web of relationships in the South Asia region. There's so much more to understand about these relationships, we hope to dive more into that soon.

50th Episode! Jun 04, 2020

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It has been one year since we started this show, and this is the 50th episode. It's a big moment, and comes at a big moment in history. So in this episode, we go back to the guests of our most popular episodes and take a look back and a look forward. Matt Rojansky joins me to talk about Russia, Aynne Kokas and Robert Daly discuss China, and Mike Sfraga talks about the Arctic. Fun for everyone!

To Reopen or Not to Reopen: That is the Border Question May 27, 2020

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Wilson Center Canada Institute Director Christopher Sands has a project looking at how states, provinces and local jurisdictions on both sides of the northern border are approaching reopening their economies. And this begs the larger question of how reopening the international border will take place. It takes two to tango when dealing with opening a border. How are the US and Canada approaching this question?

Imagine Renegotiating All Your Trade Deals Right Now May 21, 2020

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What if you had to renegotiate all of your trade deals right now with everything go on in the global economy. Well, that's exactly what the UK has to do after Brexit. It has embarked on new trade negotiations with the EU and the US, all while trying to navigate the perils of the Corona Economy. Trade expert and Wilson Global Fellow Michelle Egan joins me to show how the UK is handling this and what to look for next.

What COVID Responses and Economic Recovery Looks Like in Asia May 08, 2020

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Shihoko Goto, of the Wilson Center's Asia Program gives us an economic look at Asia, both in its recovery attempts in dealing with being the leading edge of the coronavirus impact - and the first on the other side of the bell curve - to what is on the horizon.

COVID Economics in Latin America May 08, 2020

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Continuing our look at economics in a time of global pandemics, I talk with Benjamin Gedan of the Latin American Program at the Wilson Center to see what Latin America is doing in this crisis, and the prospects for recovery.

Here's Looking At EU - How Europe Recovers from COVID-19 May 06, 2020

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Scott Cullinane, Executive Director at the US-Europe Alliance and alumni of the Wilson Foreign Policy Fellowship Program talks with me about European Union response to coronavirus, and what the challenges posed for an economic recovery on the continent.

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