Apr 10, 2019

In this edition of Wilson Center NOW we are joined by Middle East Program Fellow Amy Austin Holmes who was conducting research in Northeast Syria on the day coalition forces declared the territorial defeat of the Islamic State. Amy discusses her work conducting surveys with Kurdish and Arab members of the...

Apr 10, 2019

In this edition of Wilson Center NOW we are joined by Maria Blackwood, Title VIII Research Scholar at the Kennan Institute.  She explains the motivations behind the relocation of Soviet Kazakhstan’s capital three times in that nation’s first decade of existence. Blackwood also discusses the abrupt resignation of...

Apr 10, 2019

In this edition of Wilson Center NOW we discuss the latest in recent tensions between India and Pakistan in Kashmir. Michael Kugelman provides analysis on how the most serious crisis in nearly twenty years has grown increasingly dangerous between neighboring rivals that are both nuclear states.