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GSPIA Perspectives 2013 04/02/2013
This spring’s issue of Perspectives, due out in a few weeks, will focus on Promoting Security and Intelligence Studies. The issue will highlight many of our most prominent SIS alumni and provide profiles of our faculty central to that major, the most popular one at the School. The alumni featured on the cover are (left to right): Andrew Hoehn (MPIA ’86), Senior Vice President, Rand Corporation; Sarah Factor (MPIA ’05) Country Director for the Republic of Korea, U.S. Department of Defense; and John Picarelli (MPIA ’97) Program Manager for Transnational Issues, National Institute of Justice. Read more. |
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Ambassador Davies Provides Students with Firsthand Lesson in Diplomacy 02/06/2013
U.S. Special Representative for North Korea Glyn Davies recently provided GSPIA students with an up close and personal view of the diplomatic and negotiation process between the U.S. and North Korea. In his talk, the Ambassador elaborated on the events that led up to and followed the US-North Korea “Leap Day Deal,” a controversial agreement to swap denuclearization steps for food aid in February of 2012. Read more. |
GSPIA PhD Alumnus Colin P. Clarke Co-Authors RAND Report 01/28/2013
Colin Clarke, PhD ’12, recently co-authored a report released by the RAND Corp. that evaluates the U.S.’s ability to improve military and other security forces under the current economic climate. The report, What Works Best When Building Partner Capacity and Under What Circumstances?, looks at how the changing economic realities and the ongoing reductions in overall defense spending related to the end of more than a decade of war will affect the funding available for these initiatives. Read more. |
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Ridgway Center Explores Cuban Missile Crisis – Lessons Learned 11/30/2012
Fifty years ago, following the Bay of Pigs invasion, the failed attempt to overthrow the Cuban regime, Russian President Nikita Krushchev made an offer to Fidel Castro that he couldn’t refuse – place Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba to offset any further U.S. aggression. The subsequent implementation of this secret agreement provoked a 13-day crisis in October of 1962 that nearly turned into a nuclear war between the U.S., and the Soviet Union. Read more. |
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