Center for Peace and Security Studies

The Security Studies Program hosted an open house for newly admitted students on April 3, 2008. It featured a welcome and introduction by Tiffany Swanson, the Director of Admissions, and Daniel Byman, Director of the Security Studies Program. Professor Montgomery Meigs discussed security challenges in the 21st century.  Members of SSP and the School of Foreign Service (SFS) Graduate Career Education center discussed resources for Career placement.

The CPASS-Lockheed Martin Speaker Series presents "Al Qaeda at Ten" featuring Mr. Bruce Riedel, Senior Fellow for Political Transitions in the Middle East and South Asia; Saban Center for Middle East Policy, the Brookings Institution; Adjunct Professor, Security Studies Program

Richard Bush, Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution

Speakers: Daniel L. Byman, Director, Center for Peace and Security Studies, Georgetown University; Colin H. Kahl, Assistant Professor, Security Studies Program, Georgetown University; Lawrence J. Korb, Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and Adjunct Professor, Security Studies Program, Georgetown University
Moderated by Paul R. Pillar, Security Studies Program, Georgetown University

The Center for Peace and Security Studies and the Center for Asymmetric Warfare hosted a roundtable discussion on "Meeting the Challenges of an Emerging China." Introduced by Dean Robert L. Gallucci, panelists included: Georgetown's Robert Sutter, and the Brookings Institution's Jeffrey Bader. The second panel included Ronald O'Rourke of the Congressional Research Serivce and Christopher Thomey of the Naval Postgraduate School. The final panel featured Kurt Campbell of the Center for a New American Security and Commander James Fanell of the Office of Naval Intelligence.

First Panel Discussion: "Drivers of China's Security Strategy
Moderator: Robert L. Gallucci, Dean, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
Listen to Introduction

Second Panel Discussion: China's Military Effectiveness
Moderator: Dr. Carol Evans, Center for Asymmetric Warfare
Listen to Dr. Evans

Third Panel Discussion: The U.S. Policy Response
Moderator: Daniel L. Byman, Center for Peace and Security Studies, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University.
Listen to Dr. Byman

Kurt Campbell, Center for a New American Security
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Closing Remarks: Dr. David Banks, Center for Asymmetric Warfare
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 Dr. Mohammed Hafez, Visiting Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Missouri - Kansas City, and author of Suicide Bombers in Iraq: The Strategy and Ideology of Martyrdom.

Summary: On May 25th of this year the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence released redacted versions of two community-coordinated assessments about Iraq that the intelligence community had produced in the months prior to the war. These reports addressed directly much of what we see in Iraq today: instability, conflict, refugee problems, and exploitation of the conflict by Al-Qaeda and other terrorists.
Paul R. Pillar, who initiated these two reports and supervised their drafting and coordination, will discuss his recent article “The Right Stuff” published in The National Interest. In this important article, he tells the story of the pre-war assessments and assesses the reports’ implications for the current debate over Iraq policy, the making of national security policy, and the politicization of evaluations of the intelligence community’s performance.

Dr. Daryl Press, Associate Professor in the Government Department at Dartmouth College
Dr. Keir Lieber, Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame

Karim Sadjadpour, Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Dr. Ivan Oelrich, Vice President for Strategic Security Programs at the Federation of American Scientists; Adjunct Professor in the Security Studies Program

Dr. Bruce Hoffman, Security Studies Program, Georgetown University
Co-sponsored with the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Dr. Daniel Byman, Director, Center for Peace and Security Studies and the Security Studies Program, Georgetown University. Dr. Byman spoke to the CPASS community after a month of hostilities between Israel and Hizballah.

Dr. Jeffrey Cooper, Vice President for Technology, Science Applications International Corporation

Dr. Francis J. Harvey, Secretary of the Army.