The Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies conducted a three-day workshop to assist the Belizean government in implementing its National Security Strategy in early July in Belize City. Under the direction of Dr. Richard D. Downie, CHDS director, four CHDS faculty members worked with 13 ministry …

From April 6 to May 1, 2009, CHDS gathered 33 scholars and practitioners from seven Latin American countries – Chile, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Colombia, Mexico, Panama, Peru – and the United States in the course Perspectives on Homeland Security and Homeland Defense. The course …

President Barack Obama came to the National Defense University Thursday to pay tribute to Abraham Lincoln, for whom the Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies’ new home is named, and to honor the military education and training activities of all of the NDU’s component institutions and …

Colleagues and friends, it is with both pleasure and a touch of sadness that the Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies (CHDS) moves from its home of 11 years at the Coast Guard headquarters building to the new Lincoln Hall at the National Defense University on …

CHDS’ traditional seminar for accredited diplomats, the “Washington Security and Defense Seminar,” held October 6-10 focused on the implications of the upcoming post-election transition between US administrations. According to course director Dr. E. Richard Downes, in addition to the snapshots of how Washington formulates and …