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Ambassador John J Sullivan

UK Law Hosts Ambassador John Sullivan

Nov 4, 2024, 2:00 – 3:00 PM

Ambassador John Sullivan will be doing a pre-event, smaller group conversation with students from UK Rosenberg College of Law and UK Patterson School of Diplomacy who may be interested in being a diplomat, pursuing a career in foreign service, and discussing general professional development.

Joe Young, Director

Meet the new Director of the Patterson School

Patterson staff Nov 1, 2024

The Patterson School would like to extend a warm welcome to our new Director Dr. Joe Young! Dr. Young is coming to us from American University where he has held a number of leadership positions over the past 14 years in several different schools.

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2024 Negotiation Simulation: Central Asia was a success!

Oct 13, 2024

Students, faculty, alumni and special guests, the U.S. Army War College's ISCNE team gathered in Patterson Hall Friday afternoon to begin this year's negotiation simulation. The exercise actually begins a few days ahead of the kickoff as teams are assembled, mentors recruited, and packets of background material are distributed. Students quickly must come to understand the region and the issues that the region faces as they prepare their strategies for tackling real-world international issues. 

Dr. Jorge G Castaneda

Latin America's New Solitude: Dr. Jorge G. Castaneda

Oct 17, 2024, 6:30 – 8:00 PM

Join us this Thursday Oct 17th at the Singletary Center Recital Hall to hear Dr. Jorge G. Castaneda discuss Latin America's "New Solititude."

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2024 Fall Conference: Latin America

Oct 18, 2024

  Time Event Room 8:00 Breakfast 2 8:30 WelcomeDr. Joe Young, Director 1 8:45 Panel 1: SecurityModerator: Dr. Rob FarleyPanelists: Dr. Susan Brewer-Osario, Dr, Omar Garcia- Ponce, Dr. Erin McFee  1 10:15 Panel 2: Commerce

Book Cover, Cobalt Red

2024 Summer Reading List

Jan 27, 2024

Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives, Siddharth Kara, (2023) Pacific Power Paradox: American Statecraft and the Fate of the Asian Peace, Van Jackson, (2023) The Edge of the Plain: How Borders Make and Break Our World, James Crawford, (2023) Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency, Andy Greenberg, (2022) Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy, Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman, (2023)

Howard French, Keynote Speaker Fall Conference 2023

Keynote Address: Howard French

Oct 19, 2023, 6:30 – 8:00 PM

You're invited to a Keynote Address by Howard W. French! Event Sponsors:  UK College of Communication and InformationUK Graduate SchoolUK International Studies

Ryan Consaul

Meet Ryan Consaul, 2005 Alum

Mar 15, 2023

Ryan Consaul is a senior international/defense researcher at RAND. Previously, he served as a subcommittee staff director on the House Homeland Security Committee's Oversight and Management Efficiency Subcommittee where he led the Committee's oversight of the Department of Homeland Security's management activities including acquisition management; information technology; financial systems; human capital; employee integrity; and issues of waste, fraud, and abuse.

Thomas Niles

Meet Thomas Niles, 1962 Alum

Mar 15, 2023

Thomas M.T. Niles is Vice President of the National Defense University. A career Foreign Service Officer, Ambassador Niles joined the Foreign Service in February 1962. He served successively in Belgrade (1963-65), in the Office of Soviet Union Affairs of the Department of State (1965-67), Moscow (1968-71), United States mission to NATO (1971-1973), and again in Moscow as Director of the Commercial Office from 1973 to 1976.

Katie Smith, Alumna 2021

Meet Katie Smith, 2021 Alum

Mar 15, 2023

Katie Smith is a 2021 Patterson School graduate that is currently working at the Department of Commerce in the International Trade Administration as an International Trade Compliance Analyst. Her department is responsible for protecting domestic industries from foreign products that can outcompete with American goods.

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