Issues
Always thought-provoking, often prescient, each issue of The WQ takes a deep and satisfying dive into a single topic or theme that is shaping our world, presenting a compelling range of angles, voices, and visuals.
With the world’s youngest workforce, abundant natural resources, rising cultural influence, and on the precipice of having the globe’s largest trade area, Africa is increasingly consequential beyond its borders and ready to be met on its own terms.
Is the world ready for a new trade agenda?
Strengthening America’s Advantage in a Competitive World
As an era of hyper-globalization and complex global supply chains confronts multiple global events—the COVID-19 pandemic, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and weather related catastrophes—supply chain vulnerabilities have become increasingly clear. The fall 2022 issue of the Wilson Quarterly establishes current supply chain thinking and highlights streams of innovation to help policymakers in this defining moment in history.
The world has shifted dramatically since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022. As the world now sits on the hinge of history, the summer 2022 Wilson Quarterly examines the Ripples of War.
In an increasingly complex world, the implementation of American foreign policy requires compromises. The spring 2022 issue of the Wilson Quarterly, “Reconcilable Differences: Portraits of Challenging U.S. Partnerships” examines a handful tricky relationships—from China to Egypt to the DRC and beyond—highlighting complexities of key partnerships and offering policymakers insights on how to approach them.
A warming climate is melting ice and opening literal and figurative waterways of opportunity in the Arctic, bringing unprecedented interest from around the world. In this issue of the Wilson Quarterly we present expertise and insights from leading policymakers, scholars, practitioners, Indigenous leaders, and Arctic advocates. We invite you to explore the new Arctic.
The Fall issue of the Wilson Quarterly examines the immense challenges that human displacement poses to individuals, regions and nations as conflict, climate and other factors compel populations to move. With a mix of essays, first person accounts, testimonies, and an interactive feature, the Wilson Quarterly delivers perspectives from world leaders, U.S. legislators, scholars, journalists, and refugees themselves that illuminate many complexities and solutions to one of the key issues facing global governance and development today.
Do treaties and agreements still work in an era of increasing polarization, hypernationalism and political violence?
Public Health in a Time of Pandemic
What has COVID-19 taught us about our ability to battle global outbreaks? What has the pandemic taught us about ourselves?