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2009 Fred C. Bruhns Memorial Award Recipients Three GSPIA students received the Fred C. Bruhns Memorial Award for summer internships in the Middle East. This year’s recipients were Ramzi Asmar, Wallied Shirzoi and Jeffrey Dexter. Professor Fred C. Bruhns, GSPIA 1965-1985, and E. Maxine Bruhns lived in Beirut, Lebanon and Jerusalem, Jordan from 1952-54, while Fred researched Palestinian refugee attitudes and Maxine completed her Master’s Degree at the American University of Beirut. In memory of her husband, Maxine, Director of the Nationality Rooms Program, has offered scholarships for study in the Middle East for students with knowledge of Arabic or Farsi. This year the Matthew B. Ridgway Center supplemented travel awards to Syria and Qatar.  Ridgway Launches New Journal
The University of Pittsburgh, Graduate School for Public and International Affairs in conjunction with the Matthew B. Ridgway Center for International Security Studies is proud to present the inaugural volume of The Bunker, a journal that deals with past and current issues in international security studies. The journal is intended to be an outlet that provides current MA and PhD students the opportunity to publish their original research. In the first edition of The Bunker we have essays that deal with a wide range of issues pertinent to security studies. This variety is crucial given the ever-changing nature of the field. It is hoped that the journal becomes an intellectual forum for the scholarly exchange of ideas. Any comments or recommendations you have would be most appreciated. Please direct your comments to brizzi@gspia.pitt.edu. Click here to access PDF version of "The Bunker." GSPIA Students Selected to Attend Premier Workshop at Columbia University Chad Serena (GSPIA 4th year PhD Candidate) and Sharad Joshi (GSPIA PhD '06) were accepted into and will be attending the 13th Summer Workshop on Analysis of Military Operations and Strategy (SWAMOS) sponsored by Columbia University's Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies. The workshop is conducted at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York and will take place July 5-24. read more »  International Leaders Visit Pitt - Discuss Role of European Union and NATO
The Matthew B. Ridgway Center for International Security Studies, European Union Center of Excellence, and European Studies Center hosted the forum, "The European Union and NATO in the 21st Century: Security Collaborators or Competitors?" on April 7. read more »  Professor Goldstein Accepts Award from the Army War College
Prior to the Army War College presentations on February 25th, Colonel Michael W. Hoadley, Director of the Eisenhower College Program Series, presented Professor Donald Goldstein and GSPIA’s Matthew B. Ridgway Center with an award for their continued support and partnership over the past several years. Colonel Hoadley personally expressed his gratitude for Professor Goldstein’s “impressive dedication and sincere interests in advancing the study, analysis, and discussion of the many national security issues that impact our Nation and the world (past, present, and future).” The Eisenhower College Program is designed to encourage dialogue and discussion about national security issues and other public policy issues. read more »  "The Future of Nuclear Weapons Policy: Mending the Divided Nuclear House" - Dr. Charles Ferguson
To a near capacity crowd, GSPIA's Matthew B. Ridgway Center was pleased to host Dr. Charles Ferguson, the Philip D. Reed Senior Fellow for Science and Technology at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) as part of its speaker series. Dr. Ferguson is the project director of CFR's Independent Task Force on U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy, which is chaired by former Secretary of Defense William Perry and former National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft. They are hoping to publish the task force report within the next couple of months. It will be available on www.cfr.org, a nonpartisan resource on foreign policy as well as national and international security issues. To read Dr. Ferguson's presentation from January 22nd please click here.  Doctoral Student of the Month - Colin Clarke
Colin Clarke is a 2nd year PhD student at the University of Pittsburgh's Graduate School of Public and International Affairs and Ridgway's February "Doctoral Student of the Month." His primary and secondary fields are Foreign and Security Policy and International Development Policy. He completed his master's degree at New York University in International Relations with a focus on Security Policy. read more »  Pearl Harbor Remembered
This past weekend Professor Donald M. Goldstein was interviewed by several media organizations (ABC, PCN, NPR, PBS, and KQV) as we remembered the 67th anniversary of Pearl Harbor. read more »  Experts at Briefing Co-Sponsored by AAAS Express Concern about Cruise Missile Proliferation
While U.S. and allied military planners have continued to focus on the potential threats from ballistic missiles, there has been a worrisome proliferation of cruise missile programs around the world since 2004, a leading missile specialist told a 13 November news briefing co-sponsored by AAAS. read more » |
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