On March 1, LTG Charles Hooper, Director, Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA), visited the Perry Center to meet with LTG (ret.) Frederick Rudesheim and learn about WJPC’s educational, outreach, and research programs. A career foreign area officer in the US Army, LTG Hooper is responsible 
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WASHINGTON, DC – Retired US Army Lieutenant General Frederick S “Rudy” Rudesheim will be the next director of the William J Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies (WJPC), the Department of Defense’s Regional Center for Security Studies for the Western Hemisphere. Born and raised for 
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On Tuesday, February 6, Representative John Delaney (Maryland – 6th District) visited the Perry Center to meet with faculty members to discuss the complex security environment in the Americas and explore implications for US policymakers. Congressman Delaney is a member of the US House Committee 
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On February 1, 2018, Professor Celina Realuyo, Linda Denning and Maria Fernanda Martinez from the Perry Center met with Panama’s Minister of Public Security Alexis Bethancourt Yau and his advisors to discuss preparations for the third annual Central American Regional Countering Transnational Threats Seminar that 
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On January 17, Perry Center professors Celina Realuyo and Boris Saavedra participated in a bilateral transnational threats seminar hosted by the Dominican Republic’s Graduate School for Superior Strategic Studies (EGAEE) in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, titled “Countering Transnational and Transregional Threat Networks in the Americas.” 
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In a retirement ceremony which took place on January 3, 2018, the Perry Center Studies bid farewell to Alicia Torres-Ferrer. One of the Perry Center’s first employees, she has dedicated more than 20 years to developing and supporting the Perry Center’s mission. In 1981, Ms. 
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On December 30, the Perry Center bade farewell to Mr. Stephen A Meyer, Executive Liaison to US Southern Command (USSOUTHCOM), and thanked him for a lifetime of public service. In appreciation for his support to the Center, Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA), and USSOUTHCOM over 
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On November 28, 2017, Perry Center Professor Celina Realuyo and Marshall Center Professor John Fencsak spoke on strategies to counter transnational organized crime through international cooperation at a day-long seminar on “Security Challenges in the 21st Century” hosted by Argentine Congresswoman Cornelia Schmidt-Liermann, the Ministry 
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On Thursday, November 16, the Perry Center hosted a Hemispheric Forum titled: the Special Jurisdiction for Peace: Transitional Justice in Colombia. Moderated by Perry Center Professor Dr. Alejandra Bolaños, the panel included Major General Juan Guillermo García Serna, Chief of Military Mission and Delegate of 
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On November 15, 2017, Professor Celina Realuyo participated as a speaker at the international seminar “The Challenges of Security and Defense: Facing Transnational and Transregional Threats,” held by the National Autonomous University of Mexico’s Faculty of Political and Social Sciences in Mexico City, Mexico. The 
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