Notes from the Executive Director
STAY I N G
on topic:
thinking ahead Questions of security at the Annual meeting and Summer workshop
Patricia Goff, Executive Director, ACUNS
I hope that all of you are well! For many of you, the school year is winding down and summer is on the horizon! As this issue goes to press, we are looking forward with great excitement to our June and July events. We’ll gather in Vienna for our annual meeting at the beginning of June to discuss “New Security Challenges.” In late July, we’ll hold our Summer Workshop in Geneva on Civil-Military Relations in Peace Operations. So, security issues are our preoccupation for the next few months! One thing we’ve discovered as we’ve made our preparations for Vienna and Geneva is that how one thinks about security may depend on where you sit. For this issue of the newsletter, we’ve asked three
ACUNS Secretariat Staff
ACUNS members from different parts of the world to reflect on security concerns through a regional lens. Thierry Tardy, who will direct our 2010 Summer Workshop in Geneva, provides an important commentary on EU efforts to integrate into security partnerships with other regional and global international organizations. Swadesh Rana comments on the intersection of internal and external security threats in India. Alberto Cisneros Lavaller offers insight into security concerns in Latin America. Taken together, these articles point to the diversity and complexity of issues evoked by the notion of security. Perhaps this issue of the newsletter will spark some ideas that we can discuss over a sacher torte in Vienna!
ACUNS Board Members
Patricia Goff, Executive Director
Chair
Brenda Burns, Administration, Communications and Program Development
Past Chair Thomas G. Weiss | CUNY Graduate Center
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Members
2009-2010
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Security Challenges
2010 acuns annual meeting
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