On March 26th UCF’s Intelligence Community Center for Academic Excellence hosted the second installment of its Speaker Series, this one entitled: “Topics in Cyber Security and the Internet.” The event featured four speakers who represented different aspects of the effects of cyber security and the internet on the public and private sectors. The speakers were: […]
Join us for David Siroky's two-part talk on how governments employ violence in counterinsurgency. Dr. Siroky is an Assistant Professor of Political Science in the School of Politics and Global Studies at Arizona State University where he is a core faculty member of the Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity and a faculty affiliate of the […]
This event has been rescheduled for July 14th. Join the School of Politics, Security, and International Affairs along with the IC CAE for Central America’s Challenge: Achieving Security & the Rule of Law, a presentation by Evelyn Villarreal Fernández. Central American countries face a dangerous convergence of threats stemming from drug-trafficking geopolitics, organized crime (including […]
The primary purpose of this presentation is to help better understand the many facets in predicting the risk of threats against the United States food production, distribution, safety, networks, and automation infrastructure nationally and internationally. Food safety and security is a public health imperative and has been identified as a major 21st century health threat. The need […]
Join us as Dr. Alison Johnston speaks about economic insecurity, general strikes, and threats to political stability during austerity in Southern Europe. She is currently an assistant professor at Oregon State University and earned her PhD in European Political Economy from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Abstract: The European Debt Crisis, and the […]
Dr. Patrick James will present his research entitled "Complexity and cross-boundary effects in security: Britain and the Unification of Germany, 1989-1990." This study, co-authored by Jarrod Hayes of Georgia Tech University, focuses on Britain and the unification of Germany in 1989-90. It assesses British perceptions of the process of reunification. The key concepts used to account […]
Join us as Dr. Clayton Thyne presents his research on How Domestic Protests Influence Coups d’état. The paper considers how domestic protests influence coups. Protests signal regime illegitimacy, which incentivizes coups and provides a favorable post-coup climate for reforms. Protests also ease coordination obstacles among coup plotters, and make international actors less likely to punish coup […]
Dr. Clayton Thyne will present "A Picture is worth around 300 Words: Visual Representation of Descriptive Data". Scholars frequently explain their data either in a sentence or in a table, often providing only information about the mean and standard deviation. This approach not only eats up precious space in a manuscript, but often hides spatial […]
This talk will focus on the transition from academia to practicing political science. Dr. Trace C. Lasley will discuss his research interests, past and current work, and his job as a senior strategist for the Department of Homeland Security as well as his work on the National Security Council. He will also share his view […]
Join us on Thursday November 5th for our Speaker Series: Life and Careers in the Intelligence Community. A panel of practitioners from at least five different intelligence agencies will be represented and will introduce the intelligence community to students by talking about their lives and careers in the field. The speakers will talk about their […]
