The effect of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has forced all of us to take protective measures to safeguard the health of our team and our partners. All our courses through June 2020 are postponed, as well as academic visits to our partner countries in the Americas. This is a developing situation and we are continually assessing changes to determine what courses and events that we will be able to offer after July 1st. We will post the latest information on upcoming courses on our web site and social media accounts.
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On Tuesday, March 3rd 2020 the William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies hosted the Hemispheric Forum "Cuba's Continuing Regional Influence". The event featured subject matter experts from academia, Cuban dissidents, and US policymakers as they explored the question of how the Island maintained its disproportional impact in the region. Speakers expanded on Cuban diplomacy, cooperation, and intelligence gathering activities, and US Policy towards Cuba across different administrations. Continue reading
On March 4, 2020, Perry Center Professor Celina Realuyo testified before Congress on "Global Illicit Networks and their Facilitators in the Americas: Countering the Threat from Mexican Cartels and the Opioid Epidemic" at a hearing titled "The Traffickers' Roadmap: How Bad Actors Exploit Financial Systems to Facilitate the Illicit Trade in People, Animals, Drugs, and Weapons" before the US House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services - Subcommittee on National Security, International Development and Mo Continue reading
Florida International University hosted the launch of the newest issue of Americas Quarterly, which focuses on Latin America's militaries. Presenters at the February 12 event included (left to right) Brian Winter, editor-in-chieg of Americas Quarterly; Juan Carlos Pinzón, President, ProBogotá, and former Colombian Defense Minister; Brian Fonseca, Director of the Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Policy, Florida International University; Dr. Fabiana Perera, Assistant Professor, William J. Continue reading
The effect of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has forced all of us to take protective measures to safeguard the health of our team and our partners. All our courses through June 2020 are postponed, as well as academic visits to our partner countries in the Americas. This is a... Read More
On Tuesday, March 3rd 2020 the William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies hosted the Hemispheric Forum "Cuba's Continuing Regional Influence". Read More
On March 4, 2020, Perry Center Professor Celina Realuyo testified before Congress on "Global Illicit Networks and their Facilitators in the Americas: Countering the Threat from Mexican Cartels and the Opioid Epidemic" at a hearing titled "The Read More
As Latin America undergoes perhaps the most significant period of instability in the past two decades, Cabello’s words represent a battle plan for Venezuela’s Maduro regime to destabilize the hemisphere. Read More
This paper utilizes a framework we have developed to analyze civil-military relations in terms of both democratic civilian control and effectiveness. As the achievement of effectiveness only makes sense in terms of the roles and missions actually implemented by the s Read More
National governments and international bodies like the United Nations (UN) and the European Union impose economic sanctions to force changes in behavior, whether that is through coercion, deterrence, punishment or shame to the countries, entit Read More
In the late 1990s, Colombia was considered by many to be a failed state due to endemic crime, pervasive violence, and nationwide terrorism that resulted in the displacement of the rural population and, due to rampant kidnapping, emigration abr Read More
Coches bomba que lanzan esquirlas en áreas urbanas repletas de gente y que son detonados en forma remota desde celulares. Cuerpos torturados con mensajes amenazadores dirigidos al público o al gobierno. Read More
“China’s Influence on the Freely Associated States of the Northern Pacific” was published September 2022 by the United States Institute of Peace (USIP).  Read More
The Near East South Asia (NESA) Center for Strategic Studies, in partnership with U.S. Africa Command (USAFRICOM), conducted a “North Africa Senior Leaders Workshop” from 7–14 September 2022 in Washington, DC, ending the 2022 NESA-AFRICOM Workshop Series. Read More
William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies
The Perry Center is a DoD institution for defense and security studies in the Western Hemisphere. Through courses, seminars, outreach, strategic dialogue, and focused research in support of policy objectives, the Perry Center works with senior civilian and military officials from the Americas to build strong, sustainable networks of security and defense leaders and institutions.
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William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies
National Defense University
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260 5th Ave. Bldg. 64
Washington, DC 20319-5066
