On March 31, 2025, 47 students and faculty members from the master’s program in National Strategic Planning and Conduct (PMPCEN, known for its acronym in Spanish) at Paraguay’s Instituto de Altos Estudios Estratégicos (Institute for Advanced Strategic Studies – IAEE) visited the William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies. The group was led by the General Director of the Institute, Major General Edwin Ramon Martinez Gonzalez, and the Academic Director, Colonel Oscar Ramon Armoa Avalos. Perry Center Director Dr. Continue reading
On April 1, 2025, the William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies welcomed a group of eight security cooperation and bilateral affairs officers assigned to US embassies across the Western Hemisphere. Perry Center Director, Dr. Paul Angelo, and Associate Director of Outreach and Communications, Dr. Holly Peirce, welcomed the officers and provided an overview of the center’s mission and recent activities. Continue reading
From March 5-13, 2025, the William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies, in partnership with the Argentinian National Defense University (UNDEF), hosted the Defense Governance Amid Complex Threats (GDAC) course in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The two-week course, which addressed the needs and concerns of partner nation security and defense professionals, combined virtual and in-person activities to strengthen defense institutions’ ability to manage complex threats within a democratic framework. Co-directed by WJPC’s Dr. Continue reading
From February 3 to 7, 2025, the Perry Center, in partnership with the Guyana National Defence Institute, delivered its mobile Strategy and Defense Policy (SDPm) course in Georgetown, Guyana. This course, designed to equip both civilian and military personnel with the tools to navigate complex security and defense challenges, was led by Perry Center Professor Dr. David Spencer, with support from Professor Celina Realuyo and Visiting Professors Dr. Roman D. Ortiz and Colonel (ret.) Glyne Grannum. Continue reading
On March 31, 2025, 47 students and faculty members from the master’s program in National Strategic Planning and Conduct (PMPCEN, known for its acronym in Spanish) at Paraguay’s Instituto de Altos Estudios Estratégicos (Institute for Advanced Strategic Studies – IAEE) v Read More
On April 1, 2025, the William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies welcomed a group of eight security cooperation and bilateral affairs officers assigned to US embassies across the Western Hemisphere. Perry Center Director, Dr. Read More
From March 5-13, 2025, the William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies, in partnership with the Argentinian National Defense University (UNDEF), hosted the Defense Governance Amid Complex Threats (GDAC) course in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Read More
From February 3 to 7, 2025, the Perry Center, in partnership with the Guyana National Defence Institute, delivered its mobile Strategy and Defense Policy (SDPm) course in Georgetown, Guyana. Read More
Plan Colombia and the Mérida Initiative are the two most significant US security assistance efforts in Latin America in the twenty-first century. Read More
In this article for US Northern Command’s magazine, The Watch, Dr. William Godnick describes the contours and challenges faced at the United States’ "third border" in the Caribbean, specifically the multi-island state of the Bahamas. Dr. 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, entities and individuals that enda Read More
A Security Nexus perspective, “Deterrence Needs a Factory: Fixing the U.S.–India Industrial Gap,” by Shyam Tekwani, professor at the Daniel K. 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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