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"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

U.S. Foreign Policy: Current and Future Challenges

This course will survey and evaluate the role of American foreign policy in the contemporary international system. Beginning with an introductory background setting, the course will systematically develop the several levels of geopolitical challenge to the national interest in major areas of the world.

Principal Professor

  John J. Tierney, Jr.