Faculty

Consulting Economist; President, Institute for Global Economic Growth

Basil Bessonoff

President, Foundation for Law and Science Centers; IWP Research Professor of Scientific Statecraft

Barbara P. Billauer

Chief of Operations of the Europe, Mediterranean and Asia Region, Peace Corps

David Burgess

Vice President of Foreign and Defense Policy Studies and Director of The Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies at The Heritage Foundation

James Jay Carafano

Professor of History, The Kościuszko Chair in Polish Studies

Marek Jan Chodakiewicz

Professor Emeritus, Former Deputy National Counterintelligence Executive

Kenneth deGraffenreid

Distinguished Fellow, The Heritage Foundation; Chairman, Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation

Lee Edwards

Former Director of Latin American Affairs, National Security Council

Roger W. Fontaine

Former Senior Advisor to the Director, Voice of America

Paul A. Goble

Associate Professor of Irregular Warfare, National Defense University

Stefan Halper

MajGen Matthew C. Horner Chair of Military Theory, Marine Corps University

Christopher C. Harmon

Professor of Defense Studies; Brigadier General, U.S. Air Force (retired)

Janice Jewell

Founder and President, The Institute of World Politics

John Lenczowski

Research Professor in Cuban and Latin American Studies

Hashem Mekki

Senior Diplomat in Residence; Former Ambassador to Burundi, Uganda, and the Vatican

Joshua Muravchik

Donald E. Bently Professor of Political Economy, Former U.S. Ambassador to Guatemala

Alberto M. Piedra

Faculty Chairman; Director, Center for Culture and Security; Professor of Politics and Culture

Juliana Geran Pilon

President, Association for Intelligence Officers

Richard W. Rahn

Vice President of Economic Initiatives, Institute for Faith, Work, and Economics

Anne Rathbone Bradley

Executive Director, Nonproliferation Policy Education Center; Former Deputy for Nonproliferation Policy, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy

Robert W. Stephan

Professor, Marine Corps Command & Staff College

David L. Thomas

Walter Kohler Professor of International Relations; Academic Dean, Ad Interim; Chairman of the Admissions Committee

John J. Tierney, Jr.

Senior Adviser for the Special Operations Integration Group, SOCOM/NCR

S. John Tsagronis

Vice President and Provost; Walter and Leonore Annenberg Professor of International Communication

"The Institute's superb curriculum and fine faculty, with excellent backgrounds in both government and the academic world, create a well-integrated program that produces professionals well-grounded in the real world of security and foreign affairs, and in the underlying history, principles, and ethical issues of statecraft."

- R. James Woolsey,
Former Director of Central Intelligence

"IWP is unique in emphasizing the study of statecraft; their mix of national security and international affairs can be found nowhere else. But what makes them extraordinary is how their faculty of scholar-practitioners consistently demonstrates the real-world application of their teachings."

- Mrs. Diana Davis Spencer
President, Diana Davis Spencer Foundation

Economic Statecraft and Conflict

In most international affairs curricula, economics is taught with a principal focus on trade, economic development, foreign aid, and international finance. What is frequently missing is that dimension of economics which concerns national security policy. This course covers that dimension.

Principal Professor

Norman A. Bailey