The University of Maine’s School of Policy and International Affairs (SPIA) and Cohen Institute for Leadership & Public Service will co-host a conference on October 12-13 on Russia, Ukraine, and Euro-Atlantic Security. This conference will take place amidst an ongoing public debate about the Russia challenge and the evolution of what has been for nearly […]
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Suki Kim is the only writer to ever go undercover in North Korea. An award-winning novelist, the South Korean-born American writer has been travelling to North Korea since 2002, witnessing both Kim Jong-Il’s 60th Birthday Celebration and his death in 2011. For six months, she worked as an English teacher at a school for the […]
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The University of Maine welcomed former Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen for the 2015 Cohen Lecture. Secretary Cohen was joined by two other distinguished national security officials – General Joseph Ralston, former Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, and Ambassador Nicholas Burns, former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs – to discuss “America’s Response […]
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