Doctoral Program
The Doctor of Statecraft and National Security is a degree tailored towards national security professionals, as opposed to those who wish to pursue a teaching career. This program is designed to educate national security professionals in the art of employing the integrated instruments of national power to achieve the ends of policy.
Master’s Degree Programs
IWP’s MA programs are professional degrees designed for students who intend to pursue a career in the national security, intelligence, or international affairs fields. IWP’s curriculum has six major components, including the study of the various elements of statecraft, history and culture, American political philosophy, the Western moral tradition, economics, and moral leadership.
Certificate of Graduate Study
The certificate program is designed for students who wish to pursue graduate studies but do not need a degree and those students who already have an advanced degree yet want additional graduate credentials.
Internships
IWP offers undergraduate internships designed specifically to prepare you for a career in national security and statecraft. Interns conduct research with IWP scholar-practitioners and are able to explore career options in national security, intelligence, and international affairs.
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Institutional Learning Outcomes
Achieve Institutional Learning Outcomes (ILOs) for a comprehensive understanding of national security, policy, and global dynamics. These outcomes indicate the skills and knowledge that students are expected to gain from the program.
Students will be able to:
- Analyze the sources and development of current major national security, intelligence, and foreign policy challenges facing the United States and its interests globally.
- Demonstrate detailed knowledge in one or more specific areas of study.
- Develop a deeper understanding of all the instruments of statecraft as well as how to use and integrate them strategically and ethically.
- Appreciate the nature of the Western moral tradition and the founding principles of the American system along with their continued relevance to public policymaking.
- Recognize the importance of different political cultures, the ideas and belief systems that animate them, their forms of statecraft, and their foreign policy purposes.
- Communicate effectively with well-developed reasoning, writing, and rhetorical skills.
Comprehensive Curriculum
The Institute offers doctoral, master’s degree, certificate, and continuing education programs with a professional curriculum covering the various elements of statecraft. Its curriculum also includes an interdisciplinary foundational course of study of the relevant elements of comparative political culture, Western moral precepts, practical political economics, and political and diplomatic history.
The Institute’s curriculum has six major components:
The study of all of the elements of statecraft, including: the arts of war, peacemaking, and diplomacy; public diplomacy; strategic influence and political action; economic strategy; intelligence and counterintelligence; cyber strategy; the exercise of intangible instruments of power such as moral leadership, will-power, courage, rhetoric, etc.; and the integration of such elements into overall national strategy.
The study of diplomatic history, salient elements of comparative political culture, ideology and religion, the practices of foreign powers, and developments that affect the security interests of the United States. This component focuses on the often-neglected role and consequences of ideas in international politics. It also includes the study of unpleasant realities of international affairs, such as: treaty violations; massive violations of human rights; terrorism; disinformation, strategic deception, and psychological warfare; economic warfare; espionage; and other instruments employed by authoritarian regimes, terrorist groups, and transnational movements that the United States is likely to encounter in the world.
The review of fundamental principles of American political philosophy, including: democratic republicanism, limited government, individual rights, private property, the rule of law, and morally ordered political/economic liberty.
The study of the Western moral tradition and the application of ethics to policymaking and the use of power.
The study of economics, including economic statecraft and the salient elements of economic theory and history necessary for those working in the defense, intelligence, and foreign affairs communities.
Character-building education that encourages those who pursue public service to cultivate those qualities necessary for statesmanship and moral leadership.