Security Sector Reform and Transformation
New Marshall Center Alumni Scholars
GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany (Aug. 27, 2014) Today, Dean of the College of International and Security Studies, Dr. Robert Brannon, awarded the title of “Marshall Center Scholar” to two PASS CB 13-11 alumni from Georgia, Irina Tsertsvadze and Natia Kalandarishvili. Irina and Natia spent...
OpEd: Colombia at the Crossroads: Rebels, Drugs and Democratic Policies
The Security Sector Development team from the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies discusses the Colombian Peace Process and Asia-Pacific issues at the Military University of Nueva Granada in Bogota, Colombia. by Rouben Azizian, Ph.D., and Lt. Nicholas Matcheck U.S. Navy...
Partnership for Peace Consortium conducts South Caucasus regional stability exercise
Kiev, Ukraine (Mar 30, 2015) – TheRegional Stability in the South Caucasus (RSSC) Working Groupconvened an international panel of experts from 26-28 March in Kiev. The meeting was organized under the framework of the Partnership for Peace Consortium (PfPC) in collaboration with the Austrian...
Perry Center announces new publication on Caribbean security and defense matters
August 26, 2016 The Perry Center is excited to announce its latest book, an edited series of essays titled, “Contemporary Security and Defense Issues in the Caribbean.” Contributing authors include students and professors from the Caribbean Security and Defense Course in 2015. The 200-...
Perry Center Presents at FIU Hemispheric Conference on Security in the Changing Geopolitical Landscape
On March 9, 2017 Florida International University Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Policy, Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center and the U.S. Army War College hosted a Hemispheric Conference on Security in the Changing Geopolitical Landscape in Miami, FL with over 100...
Residential Phase of SDP Course Begins
October 11, 2018 On Monday, October 15, 2018 the Perry Center’s biggest academic course to date, Strategy and Defense Policy (SDP), began. Over 90 military and civilian officials representing 17 countries in the Western Hemisphere traveled to Washington, DC to begin the 2 week residential...
Romanian alumni association celebrates 20 years of cooperation with the Marshall Center
Over 200 people met on Nov. 21 in Bucharest at Central University Library Carol I to mark 20 years of activity with the Marshall Center. The US Chargé d’Affairs, Duane Butcher and German Amb. Werner Lauk attended the event as well as the US Defense Attaché COL Roderick Dorsey and ODC Chief Col...
The Key to Successful Elections in Timor-Leste: Professional Security Forces
Flavio Simoes (CSRT 16-1) recently published an editorial on the value of professional security forces and how that is essential to successful elections. His article,"The Key to Successful Elections in Timor-Leste: Professional Security Forces," was published by The Diplomat today. In it he...
The Nature of Power: A Metcalfe’s Law National Security Strategy
“The Nature of Power: A Metcalfe’s Law National Security Strategy” by James Sullivan is the latest paper written for DKI APCSS’ Security Nexus. In his paper, Sullivan says that “the world is at a crossroads is true, but not in the way it is popularly understood.” He states, “Peer...
Ukraine Military and General Staff Focus of Sixth Marshall Center Senior Leader Seminar
By James E. Brooks, George C. Marshall European Center Public Affairs GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany (July 24, 2017) – Fifteen senior leaders from the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense and General Staff, as well as two Ukrainian parliamentarians, traveled to the George C. Marshall European...
Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation Visits the Perry Center
On August 16, the Perry Center hosted students from the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC) as a part of that institution’s annual visit to Washington, D.C. The institutional visit included partner nation students in WHINSEC’s Maneuver Captains Career Course (M-CCC...
Why is China on a Hyper-Aggressive Streak during a Global Pandemic?
“Why is China on a Hyper-Aggressive Streak during a Global Pandemic?” is a new paper by DKI APCSS professor Dr. Srini Sitaraman for Security Nexus. In this OpEd, Sitaraman offers three explanations as to why China is engaged in hyper-aggressive behavior in the midst of a global pandemic....