CHDS Director Dr. Richard D. Downie announced Friday that Dr. Frederick M. Nunn, a distinguished historian of the Latin American military, has been selected as the Center’s new Dean of Academic Affairs. Nunn, the author of several books and scores of scholarly articles, is Professor …

On Friday, the Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies hosted the US-Chile Defense Consultative Commission during its visit to National Defense University. The event included a tour of CHDS as well of a briefing by Director Richard D. Downie for Chilean Under Secretary of War Gonzalo …

On April 02, the Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies (CHDS) played host to its second “Face-to-Face Encounter” in 2009, this time focusing on the theme “A New U.S. Administration, A New Hemisphere? Perspectives from Three Continents.” In the photo, Dr. Abe Lowenthal (second from left), …

The Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies (CHDS), the Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies (APCSS), the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) at Stanford University, and the Pacific Council on International Policy (PCIP) co-hosted a conference on “Pacific Rim Security – Managing the Global …

On November 19th a delegation of 54 members of the Chilean National Academy of Political and Strategic Studies (Academia Nacional de Estudios Políticos y Estrategicos – ANEPE), the institutional category winners of the William J. Perry Award last September, visited the National Defense University, where its Director, …