Americas

Following are all current, recent, and past IFPA projects, publications, conferences, workshops, articles, and presentations on issues concerning North, Central, or South America.

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  • publications
  • conferences & workshops
  • articles & presentations
New Strategic Dynamics in the Arctic Region: Implications for National Security and International Collaboration
This project explores and assesses trends that together could transform the Arctic from a relative strategic backwater to a strategic crossroads of global importance.
project details || selected readings
The Democracy in Latin America Seminar Series: Challenges of Radical Populism
In association with the Hudson Institute, IFPA has examined radical populism in Latin America in order to provide policy recommendations to leaders of government and civil society in the Hemisphere to help counter anti-democratic forces and authoritarianism.
project details
Finding the Right Mix: Disaster Diplomacy, National Security, and International Cooperation
IFPA undertook this project, completed in 2009, to provide U.S. policy makers with enhanced tools for planning, managing, and concluding a major disaster operation effectively and in a manner that explicitly advances U.S. strategic objectives.
project report (4.29 MB) || project details
North American Homeland Security and Defense: Enhancing U.S. Joint Planning and Cooperation with Canada and Mexico in the War against Terrorism
This project, completed in early 2006, explored options to increase homeland defense/security cooperation between the United States and Canada and between the United States and Mexico.
U.S.-Canada workshop report (2.34 MB) || U.S.-Mexico workshop report (673 KB)
Finding the Right Mix: Disaster Diplomacy, National Security, and International Cooperation
Charles M. Perry, with Marina Travayiakis, Bobby Andersen, and Yaron Eisenberg
January 2009
Description
This study focuses on humanitarian assistance and disaster relief (HA/DR). It explores ways to make civil-military cooperation more effective in supporting a whole-of-government strategy for addressing twenty-first century threats. It is designed to assist those responsible for the management of large-scale HA/DR efforts achieve a greater unity of effort and division of labor among the diverse civilian and military, national and international, and public and private sector entities to execute such operations. It identifies critical capabilities and key operational challenges; reviews existing and proposed cooperative mechanisms to facilitate disaster relief planning, training, and implementation; and examines several recent cases of disaster response for lessons learned.
report (4.29 MB) || project details
A New Maritime Strategy for 21st-Century National Security
37th IFPA-Fletcher Conference on National Security Strategy and Policy
February 2007
conference report (1.27 MB)
Nuclear Proliferation and the Future of U.S. Defense and Deterrence Planning
Jacquelyn K. Davis and Charles M. Perry
January 2005
executive summary (7.42 MB)
Implementing the New Triad: Nuclear and Non-Nuclear Forces in 21st-Century Deterrence
36th IFPA-Fletcher Conference on National Security and Policy:
January 2005, 122 pp
conference report (3.77 MB)
The Mexican-U.S. Partnership: Enhancing Our Common Security
January 2005, 35 pp
workshop report (673 KB)
The Canada-U.S. Partnership: Enhancing Our Common Security
January 2005, 35 pp
workshop report (2.34 MB)
Planning for and Responding to Threats to the U.S. Homeland
35th IFPA-Fletcher Conference on National Security Strategy and Policy
October 2004, 132 pp
report (2 MB)
The Strategic Plan for Safeguarding the Commonwealth of Massachusetts against Terrorist and Related Threats
Prepared for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts by
January 2003, 43 pp
report (1.01 MB)
Homeland Security and Special Operations: Sorting Out Procedures, Capabilities, and Operational Issues SOF and Homeland Security Report
March 2002, 16 pp
report (543 KB)
Pacific Partners: Canada and the United States
Charles F. Doran, Michael K. Hawes, Brian L. Job, Rank Langdon, and Douglas Ross
January 1994, 129 pp
available for purchase ($10)
Terrorists, Drug Traffickers, and Gangs in Latin America: Undermining Democracy
June 9, 2010, Washington, D.C., in association with the Hudson Institute and part of the Democracy in Latin America seminar series
about the seminar || project details
Challenges to Democracy in Latin America: The Case of Venezuela
December 3, 2009, Washington, D.C., in association with the Hudson Institute and part of the Democracy in Latin America seminar series
about the seminar || project details
Populist Threats to Democracy in Central America
September 22, 2009, Washington, D.C., in association with the Hudson Institute and part of the Democracy in Latin America seminar series
seminar details || project details
Emerging Threats and Homeland/National Security: The Role of Missile Defense
September 22 – June 23, 2009, Washington, D.C., Independent Working Group roundtable
roundtable details || streaming audio || project details
Bolivia: A Country Divided
April 1, 2009, Washington, D.C., in association with the Hudson Institute and part of the Democracy in Latin America seminar series
about the seminar || project details
Democracy in Central America: How Strong?
February 19, 2009, Washington, D.C., in association with the Hudson Institute and part of the Democracy in Latin America seminar series
seminar details || project details
Latin America's Radical Populism Challenges: What's Next for a New U.S. Administration?
October 8, 2008, Washington, D.C., in association with the Hudson Institute and part of the Democracy in Latin America seminar series
about the seminar || project details
The Faces of Radical Populism in Latin America
April 3, 2008, Washington, D.C., in association with the Hudson Institute and part of the Democracy in Latin America seminar series
about the seminar || project details
Radical Populism in Latin America
November 6, 2007, Washington, D.C., in association with the Hudson Institute and part of the Democracy in Latin America seminar series
about the seminar || project details
37th IFPA-Fletcher Conference on National Security Strategy and Policy: A New Maritime Strategy for 21st-Century National Security
September 26 – September 27, 2007, Washington, D.C.
Description
The 37th IFPA-Fletcher conference on national security strategy and policy. Building on previous conferences in this series, the 37th IFPA-Fletcher National Security Conference provided a timely, high-level forum for presentation and analysis of the U.S. Navy’s New Maritime Strategy. It brought together a unique mix of expertise from government and the private sector; from the civilian and military communities; from think tanks, industry, and academia; and from the United States and abroad.
report (13 MB)
Leftism and Populism in Today’s Latin America: Is Chavismo Contagious?
July 9, 2007, Washington, D.C., in association with the Hudson Institute and part of the Democracy in Latin America seminar series
about the seminar || project details
36th IFPA-Fletcher Conference on National Security and Policy: Implementing the New Triad: Nuclear and Non-Nuclear Forces in 21st-Century Deterrence
December 14 – December 15, 2005, Washington, D.C.
report (3.8 MB)
Mexican-U.S. Partnership: Enhancing Our Common Security
December 2, 2005, Washington, D.C.
report (673 KB)
Canada - U.S. Partnership: Enhancing Our Common Security
March 14, 2005, Washington, D.C.
report (2.34 MB)
The 35th Annual IFPA-Fletcher Conference on National Security Strategy and Policy: Planning for and Responding to Threats to the U.S. Homeland
October 28 – October 29, 2004, Washington D.C.
report (2 MB)
Space and Information Operations in a Homeland Security Contingency
April 2, 2002, Washington D.C., in support of U.S. Space Command and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency
Planning for and Responding to Bio-terror Threats to the U.S. Homeland: NORTHCOM's Roles, Capabilities, and Requirements
March 30, 2004, Washington, D.C., in support of U.S. Northern Command
The 32nd IFPA-Fletcher Conference on National Security Strategy and Policy: Meeting the Homeland Security Challenge
March 25 – March 26, 2002, Washington D.C.
Homeland Security and Special Operations: Sorting Out Procedures, Capabilities, and Operational Issues
January 17, 2002, Washington D.C., in support of U.S. Special Operations Command, U.S. Joint Forces Command, and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency
workshop summary report (543 KB)
IFPA Fletcher Conference: National Security for a New Era: Focusing National Power
November 14 – November 15, 2001, Washington D.C.
report (3.18 MB)
A Fiscal 2012 Missile Defense Agenda
By the Independent Working Group, February 14, 2011
article (219 KB) || project details
Reforming Military Support for Foreign Disaster Relief and Humanitarian Assistance
Charles M. Perry and Marina Travayiakis
Feature Article in Liaison, Journal of Civil-Military Humanitarian Relief Collaboration, issue 1, 2008
article (1.35 MB)