Africa
Lettre d'adieu de la Doyenne Monde Muyangwa à la Communauté du CESA
Chers amis du CESA, chers collègues,C’est avec des émotions partagées et un sentiment d’authentique respect pour vous et pour tous ceux qui ont consacré leur carrière à l’établissement d’une Afrique plus sûre, plus stable et plus prospère, que je vous fais part de ma décision, après bientôt...
ACSS Africa Security Briefs Available in 3 Languages!
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ACSS Congratulates Veteran Staff Members on Promotions
ACSS Congratulates Veteran Staff Members on Promotions By Africa Center for Strategic Studies Updated: 10/26/2011 Kareem Oweiss Named New ACSS Director of Operations. The Africa Center is pleased to announce that Kareem Oweiss has been appointed the new Director of...
ACSS Counterterrorism Professor Benjamin Nickels Assesses Threats to Africa: Part one of a two part interview
Africa Center for Strategic Studies Updated: 12/08/2011 Dr. Benjamin P. Nickels, Assistant Professor of Transnational Threats and Counterterrorism at the Africa Center for Strategic Studies (ACSS), has been studying terrorism and effective ways to counter it for...
ACSS Releases New Special Report: "The Anatomy of the Resource Curse: Predatory Investment in Africa's Extractive Industries"
While the natural resource curse is typically considered an economic phenomenon, access to abundant natural resource revenues also has profound effects on governance and the politicization of the security sector. Given the opaque nature of many of the transactions involved, relatively...
ACSS Releases Special Report - Advancing Stability and Reconciliation in Guinea-Bissau: Lessons from Africa’s First Narco-State
The Africa Center for Strategic Studies (ACSS) has released a Special Report on "Advancing Stability and Reconciliation in Guinea-Bissau: Lessons from Africa's First Narco-State." The 50-page report, released June 12, 2013, takes an in-depth look at how the global drug trade has turned the...
ACSS Welcomes New Assistant Professor for Security Studies
The Africa Center for Strategic Studies (ACSS) is pleased to welcome Mr. Thomas Dempsey, a retired U.S. Army colonel, as Assistant Professor for Security Studies. His expertise includes security sector reform (SSR), peace operations, failed state reconstruction, African area studies,...
ACSS Welcomes New Communications and Community Outreach Chief
The Africa Center for Strategic Studies (ACSS) is happy to announce that Mr. Brad Minnick is its new Director for Communications and Community Outreach. He will spearhead the center’s efforts to engage thousands of alumni around the world and expand the global audience that looks to...
Africa Center February Newsletter
February's Africa Center for Strategic Studies (ACSS) Newsletter offers a range of thought-provoking products about important security issues across the continent. This month, you can read about ACCS' recent weeklong workshop in Rwanda on preventing youth...
Africa Center for Strategic Studies Begins African Defense Attaché Seminar
View Photos From This Event.WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Africa Center for Strategic Studies (ACSS) kicked off its African Defense Attaché Seminar at the National Defense University on Monday, Feb. 6, 2012. “The motives behind U.S. policy in Africa are...
Africa Center's Dean Gilpin Writes on "Peacekeeping in Africa and the Legacy of Austerity" for USIP Blog
Spending cuts and budget austerity by African governments in the 1990s and 2000s mean that African militaries and peacekeeping forces are historically inadequately resourced and poorly prepared and equipped for deployment, the Africa Center’s Academic Dean, Dr. Raymond Gilpin, wrote in May...
African Illicit Commons Seminar Participants Network at ACSS Event
View photos from the event.The Africa Center for Strategic Studies hosted 19 African military and civilian leaders for an informal briefing and networking event at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 15, 2012. The leaders were on campus as participants in the...
Air War College Visit – Washington Program
On 23 June 2022, the Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies (NESA Center) hosted 52 international fellows and faculty from the Air War College at Fort McNair in Washington, DC. The students were briefed by NESA Center Professor Dr. Gawdat Bahgat and NESA Center Academic Dean Dr....
Alumni Publication: Algeria-U.S. Strategic Partnership
By Dr. Arslan Chikhaoui, Chairman of NSV Studies Consultancy & Studies Center 2 September 2022 The contemporary relations between Algeria and the United States of America date back to U.S. President John F. Kennedy’s support for the war of liberation against French...
Ambassador Rice Remarks at UN Security Council briefing on Terrorism on May 13
Here's a link to Ambassador Susan Rice's remarks yesterday at a UN Security Council Briefing on Terrorism in Africa...http://iipdigital.usembassy.gov/st/english/texttrans/2013/05/20130513147291.html?utm_source=Africa+Center+for+Strategic+Studies+-+Media+Review+for+May+14%2C+2013&...
Coming Event: ACSS to Cohost Counternarcotics and Illicit Commons Seminar
The Africa Center for Strategic Studies (ACSS), the Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies, the Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies, and the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies will cosponsor a four-day seminar on countering transnational threats and the...
Dean Monde Muyangwa's Farewell Letter to ACSS Community
Dean Monde Muyangwa’s Farewell Letter to ACSS Community[ENGLISH][FRANÇAIS][PORTUGUESE]Dear Africa Center Friends and Colleagues,It is with mixed emotions and genuine respect for you and all of those who have dedicated their careers to a more secure, stable, and prosperous Africa, that I...
Defense Official Calls for More Cooperation Against Trafficking During Symposium Opening
View Photos From This Event. The only way for the world to counter the expanding international criminal drug trade is for nations to work together, a senior U.S. Defense Department official said during the opening of a transnational threats symposium in Washington, D.C...
Democratization and Dilemmas for Africa’s Security Forces
The security forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been busy since incumbent President Joseph Kabila was declared winner of disputed elections on December 9, 2011. Members of the Republican Guard (a presidential security detail of 12,000 soldiers), the police, and other security...
Foreign Area Officers Visit ACSS
WASHINGTON, D.C.- The Africa Center for Strategic Studies (ACSS) welcomed 17 foreign area officers on Feb. 16, 2012, for a visit to the Center and a roundtable discussion on the current political and security environment in Africa. The visitors are serving as defense attachés, or have...
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NESA Center Update Report
Read our latest report that highlights recent NESA Region Trends, Programs & Events, Faculty & Staff Engagements, Alumni Contributions, and Upcoming Events. Click the link below to see the report. Read the Report [PDF] Read other NESA Center Reports
Alumni Publication: Transforming Higher Education in Africa by Moha Ennaji
NESA Center alumnus Moha Ennaji recently published an Op-Ed in Project Syndicate titled "Transforming Higher Education in Africa." "The COVID-19 pandemic has had a particularly devastating effect on African universities, revealing vast inequalities and a lack of technological capacity. Fixing...