National Basketball Association and aired regularly during 

 the NBA season, playoffs, and championship game. 



Woodrow Wilson International 

 Center for Scholars 



Dean W. Anderson, Acting Director 



The Woodrow Wilson Inrernational Center for Scholars is a 

 nonpartisan institute for advanced research in the humanities, 

 social sciences, and public policy. Created by Congress in 1968 

 as the nation's living memorial to Woodrow Wilson, the centet is 

 a meeting ground berween the worlds of learning and public 

 affairs. It is the capital's only independent, wide-ranging insti- 

 tute for advanced study, where vital current issues and their 

 hisrorical background are explored through research and 

 dialogue by the center's professional staff and visiting scholars — 

 to date, more than 1,500 academics, public leaders, and jour- 

 nalisrs from around the world. 



The center informs rhe public through open meerings, 

 publications, and electronic media. Every year, more than 200 

 meetings at the Wilson Center give the public a chance to ask 

 questions and explore new ideas wirh academic and policy ex- 

 perts. The Wilson Quarterly, a journal of ideas and information, 

 reaches more than 60,000 subscribers. The award-winning 

 radio program "Dialogue" is produced in association with 

 Smithsonian Productions and broadcast nation-wide by the 

 Armed Forces Radio Network. 



In Augusr 1998, the center moved from rhe Smithsonian 

 Castle to its distinctive new home in the Ronald Reagan 

 Building and International Trade Center ar One Woodrow 

 Wilson Plaza. Designed by James Ingo Freed of Pei Cobb 

 Freed & Partners, the building fulfills the congressional man- 

 date of a presence for the center on Pennsylvania Avenue. A 

 memorial space on the ground floor is marked by passages 

 from Wilson's speeches and writings and a bronze bas relief of 



Wilson by sculptor Leonard Baskin. Next to the memorial is a 

 small theater where a film about Wilson's life, ideas, and 

 accomplishments runs continuously. The center's ambitious 

 schedule of lectures, conferences, and symposia will have room 

 to expand in this new space, which includes a board room, 

 conference rooms, and the Joseph H. and Claite Flom 

 Auditotium. 



Scholars and staff of the center's Cold War International 

 History Project are serving as academic consultants to the 

 CNN television documentary seties on the Cold War, which 

 began airing in Seprember 1998. The center's expanded Cold 

 War Web site, cwihp.si.edu. provides direct access to previously 

 classified documents from Soviet and Eastern Bloc archives, as 

 well as to in-depth information on the issues, events, and in- 

 dividuals presented in the series. A link from the CNN site 

 will bring thousands of new electronic visitors. 



Wilson Center scholars and staff led numetous briefings for 

 members of Congress and their staffs on nonproliferation. 

 Ukraine and the former Soviet Union, drug certification in Latin 

 America, United Stares— China relations, and other issues. 



Edward O. Wilson, renowned scientist and author of two 

 Pulitzer Prize— winning books, spoke about his latest book, 

 Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge. He proposes a new phase in 

 one of Western civilizarion's greatest driving concepts: that 

 the world is orderly and can be explained by a small number 

 of natural laws. When we have unified enough certain 

 knowledge across all so-called divisions of human inquiry, 

 writes Wilson, we will understand who and why we are. 

 Excerpts from the book, as well as essays by Paul Gross and 

 Richard Rorry, both of the University of Virginia, were 

 published in the winter 1998 Wilson Quarterly. 



Among the workshops sponsoted by the center, the Latin 

 American Program hosted "Latin America's Role in the New 

 International System," which examined the evolving inter- 

 national environmenr and its impact on the strategic options 

 available to the narions of the region. The workshop convened 

 experts on international relations from across the hemisphere 

 with prominent analysts to test a range of strategic scenarios 

 against the broader perspective of those who do not necessarily 

 focus on Latin America. 



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