Public diplomacy's next challenge
By Christopher C. Harmon
Publication Date: April 1, 2008
Noting that the measure of success enjoyed by US counterterrorism efforts hasn't been due to anything done by its public diplomacy activities, IWP Adjunct Professor and counterterror expert Christopher Harmon discusses the public diplomacy strategy the US must pursue in order to make further inroads upon terrorists.  Professor Harmon's essay draws upon numerous examples from terrorists around the world and offers a strategic look at the defensive and offensive use of words and images to sway public opinion and surpass al Qaeda in the global war of ideas.  To download Prof. Harmon's essay, please click here:  Harmon public diplomacy  {read more}

Katyn murder cover-up described by Romerstein
By Herbert Romerstein
Publication Date: March 8, 2008

Charlie Wilson's War reviewed by Dr. Chodakiewicz
By Marek Jan Chodakiewicz
Publication Date: Saturday, March 1, 2008
IWP Academic Dean and Professor of History Dr. Marek Chodakiewicz has written a brief and insightful review essay of George Crile's work, Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History (New York: Grove Press, 2003) and the well-known film of the same title.  {read more}

Chodakiewicz analyzes postwar Polish anti-Semitism
By Marek Jan Chodakiewicz
Publication Date: Monday, February 18, 2008
In a paper delivered at Columbia University, IWP Academic Dean and Professor of History Marek Chodakiewicz examines aspects of the conflict between traditional and progressive views of American and Polish culture.   Contending that "'Progressives' have focused on Poland as a substitute target for a larger assault on traditional American values," Dr. Chodakiewicz contrasts the views of George Weigel and Jan Tomasz Gross in their discussion of anti-Semitism in Poland after World War II.  To read Dr. Chodakiewicz's paper, please click on "PDF" at the upper right.  {read more}

Will Poland's Election Be a Referendum on De-Communization?
By Marek Jan Chodakiewicz
Publication Date: 18 October 2007
IWP's Academic Dean and Professor of History Dr. Marek Jan Chodakiewicz has written a cogent commentary on the Polish elections, placing them in their recent historical context and examining what, if any, effect they will have on the process of de-communization.  Prof. Chodakiewicz's essay appeared recently on WorldPoliticsWatch.com.  The full text follows.   {read more}

Iran's propaganda, Holocaust revisionism and Western civilization
By Marek Jan Chodakiewicz
Publication Date: September 6, 2007
When President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran described the Holocaust as a "myth" and hosted a Holocaust revisionist conference in Tehran in December 2006, he was warmly cheered in the Third World and severely castigated in the United States and Europe. Yet most Western pundits largely failed to grasp the significance of the assault. They limited themselves to outrage and righteous indignation. Ahmadinejad's fulminations were, on the one hand, jeered as "paranoid" and, on the other, described as on par with his other threats to destroy Israel -- pardon, "the Zionist entity." In other words, Western commentators dismissed the Iranian President as a vile, if dangerous troglodyte.But Iran's leader is much more sophisticated than that. Ahmadinejad apparently applied Western logic to score a major propaganda victory.   {read more}

The Advocate
IWP Research Professor Juliana Pilon reviews Josef Joffe's Uberpower: The Imperial Temptation of America
By Juliana Geran Pilon
Publication Date: Saturday, September 1, 2007
Research Professor and Earhart Fellow Dr. Juliana Geran Pilon analyzes the public diplomacy aspects of contemporary American power as explained by Josef Joffe in Uberpower: The Imperial Temptation of America (WW Norton, 2006).  Dr. Pilon's review essay appeared in the fall 2007 edition of The Journal of International Security Affairs.  To read her remarks, please click on "PDF" on the upper right.  {read more}

Twin traitors
IWP Adjunct Professor Kelley reviews two books on Pollard and Montes spy cases
By Brian Kelley
Publication Date: Summer 2007
In the summer 2007 issue of the National Military Intelligence Association's American Intelligence Journal, IWP Adjunct Professor Brian Kelley reviewed two recent books examining how counterintelligence investigators captured the spies Ana Belen Montes and Jonathan Pollard: Scott Carmichael's True Believer (Naval Institute Press, 2007) and Ronald J. Olive's Capturing Jonathan Pollard (Naval Institute Press, 2006).  {read more}

Islamism and Stratagem
By John J. Dziak
Publication Date: 6 April 2007
This essay is intended as a running reflection on the intelligence and counterintelligence problems posed by resurgent, militant Islam, especially in the post-9/11 era. It is not meant to be a comprehensive assessment either of Islam itself or a prescription for the Intelligence Community on how to portray militant Islam as an intelligence issue for policy makers. Rather, it offers observations on these intelligence problems with an effort to identify and make sense of the deceptive dimensions therein. Such dimensions include not only active deception and manipulation activities undertaken by our adversaries, but the proclivities inherent in the doctrinal aspects of militant Islam itself. In that sense Islamic stratagems against the West are both explicit and implied within the theocratic culture of Islam. But they also embrace a tendency among much of the media and within US policy and intelligence to deny that there’s even a problem in the first place.[1] These reflections draw on the author’s experience in intelligence and counterintelligence and graduate school teaching of the same subjects for over four decades. Obviously, the views are those of the author alone and are meant as a stimulant to a discussion of timely and contentious intelligence issues related to hostile deception.  {read more}

Out of favor with 'progress': Dr. C reviews Polish scholar Lelewel
By Marek Jan Chodakiewicz
Publication Date: April 2007
IWP's Academic Dean and Professor of History, Dr. Marek Jan Chodakiewicz, reviews the leftist Polish scholar Joachim Lelewel's A Historical Parallel of Spain and Poland in the 16th, 17th, and 19th Centuries.  His review essay appeared in The Sarmatian Review, vol. 27, no. 2 (April 2007):1316-1317.  {read more}