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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 2015, the Islamic State announced the formation of Khorasan Province (ISIS-K), a new affiliate based in Afghanistan. The group’s early recruits were former members of the Pakistani Taliban, the ...

In the global competition for technological leadership and economic resilience, Southeast Asia is quickly emerging as a critical node. Anchored by countries like Vietnam, Malaysia, and Singapore, the ...

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 ...

An increasingly frequent number of cases of damage to undersea infrastructure in the Baltic Sea have been reported since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The Wilson Center has ...

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 ...

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 Baltic states–Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania–have warned of potential Russian aggression for decades. When Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, it showed that Western Europe should have heeded ...

Critical materials play a vital role in powering modern technologies, from renewable energy systems and electric vehicles to advanced electronics and national defense. However, the United States faces ...