Partners of Choice

Partners of Choice?
A Western Hemisphere Security Conundrum

Sponsored by

the Institute for National Strategic Studies

Fort Lesley J. McNair, Washington, DC

November 30 and December 1, 2006

This symposium focuses on two timely questions: can Latin American, Caribbean, and North American nations, including the United States, move from good intentions for collective action to concrete programs that respond to security challenges that cannot be handled alone and what unifying approaches and programs are most likely to succeed? National protection today requires a broader perimeter than one nation can establish.

Objectives

During this symposium we will explore ideas about the pursuit of strategic partnerships in today’s security environment and seek to gain insight into how democratic countries in the Western Hemisphere can work together bilaterally or multilaterally in concrete ways. What are the different prerequisites, expectations, obstacles, and trade-offs that influence the choice of security partners? In addition, we seek to identify those attitudes, policies and institutions that need to change or be accommodated in order to make working security partnerships possible, either with the United States or with one or more regional neighbors.

PROGRAM

Thursday, November 30

0730 - 0830 Registration (Building 59, Room 107)

0830 - 0840 Administrative Remarks

0840 - 0855 Welcome and Opening Remarks

Dr. Stephen J. Flanagan, Vice President for Research and Director, Institute for National Strategic Studies

0855 - 0935 Opening Keynote Address

The Potentials of Multinational Partnership in the 21st Century - Ambassador Luigi Einaudi, Ret., former Assistant Secretary General of the Organization of the American States and Acting Secretary General - Presentation

0935-0950 Break

0950 - 1130 Panel 1: Today's Strategy Landscape

Moderator: Dr. Cynthia J. Arnson, Director, Latin American Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
- Trends Towards Economics Unity and Strategic Partnerships - Dr. Ines Bustillo, Director, Washington Office, United Nations Economic Commissions on Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) - PPT
- Cooperative Management of the New Hemispheric Security Agenda - Dr. Margaret Daly Hayes, Vice President and Principal of EBR Associates - PPT
- U.S. Interests in Regional Affairs - Dr. Howard Wiarda, Dean Rusk Professor of International Relations and Head, Department of International Affairs, The University of Georgia - Presentation

1130 - 1320 Luncheon and Presentation (Building 62, Room 155)

Brazil and Regional Integration in South America - Ambassador Roberto Abdenur, Brazilian Ambassador to the United States

1320 - 1500 Panel 2: Perspectives on Security Partnership

Moderator: Dr. Max Manwaring, General Douglas McArthur Chair, Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College
- Patterns in Latin America's Strategic Debate - Ambassador Heraldo Munoz, Ambassador of Chile to the United Nations - Presentation
- Competing Influences in Regional Affairs - Dr. Julia Sweig, Director of Latin American Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
- The Future of Non-Military Collective Action - Dr. Francisco Rojas Aravena, Secretary General, Latin American Faculty of Social Science (FLACSO) - Presentation PPT

1500 - 1520 Break

1520 - 1700 Panel 3: Regional Experience with Military Cooperation

Moderator: Dr. Frank Mora, Professor of National Security Studies, National War College, National Defense University
- Complementarities at Bilateral and Sub-Regional Levels - General Juan Carlos Salgado, Chilean Army, Ret., President, Academic Center for the Military Studies of the Army - Presentation Presentation (Spanish Version)
- Latin American Participation in Peace Operations in Haiti: Lessons for Future Cooperation? - Lieutenant General Augusto Heleno Ribeno Pereira, Brazilian Army, First Commander of the UN Stabilization Force Haiti (MINUSTAH) - PPT
- National Challenges to Security Cooperation - Ms. Rut C. Diamint, Professor, Department of Political Science and Government, Torcuato di Tella University and former Advisor to Argentina's Minister of Defense

Friday, December 1

0730 - 0800 Optional Tour of NDU Library and Special Collections

0810 - 0950 Panel 4: North American Perspectives on Security Partnership

Moderator: Dr. Richard D. Downie, Director, Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies, National Defense University
- Natural Allies? Canadian Perspectives on Continental Defense and Security Arrangements - Dr. Edgar J. Dosman, Professor, York Centre for International and Security Studies (CISS)
- Mexico's Security Dilemma: Between Nation, North America and Latin America - Dr. Raul Benitez-Manaut, Professor, National Autonomous University of Mexico and Visiting Professor, North American Center, American University - Presentation
  Presentation (Spanish Version) PPT
- Practical Security Partnerships As Seen from DHS - Ambassador Cresencio Arcos, former Assistant Secretary, International Affairs Policy, U.S. Department of Homeland Security

0950 - 1010 Break

1010 - 1150 Panel 5: Security Cooperation Around the Caribbean Basin

Moderator: Dr. Ivelaw L. Griffith, Provost and Professor of Political Science, Radford University
- Central America's Approach to Security Integration - Honorable Federico Breve-Travieso, Director of Politics and Security, FUNDEMOS - Presentation PPT
- Strengthening Partnerships in the Caribbean - Brigadier General Edmond Dillon, Chief of Defense Staff, Trinidad and Tobago - Presentation
- Colombia's Experience with Security Cooperation - Ambassador Carolina Barco Isakson, Chief of Colombia's Mission to the United States and recent Minister of Foreign Affairs

1150 - 1345 Luncheon and Presentation

Working with Democratic Partners in the Western Hemisphere - Ambassador John F. Maisto, U.S. Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States

1345 - 1515 Panel 6: Partners of Choice: Commentaries

Moderator: Colonel John A. Cope, U.S. Army Ret., Senior Research Fellow, Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University
- Dr. Luis Bitencourt, Professor of National Security Affairs, Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies, National Defense University
- Lt. Gen. Julio Hang, Argentine Army Ret., Director del Instituto de Seguridad Internacional y Asuntos Extrategicos (ISIAE)