Senate Terrorism Panel Hears IWP Professor’s Testimony
An IWP professor testified as an expert witness on terrorist support networks inside the United States, before the Senate Subcommittee on Terrorism and Homeland Security.
Read More ›Conferees Discuss Strategic Relevance of Defense Intelligence
The last of three IWP conferences on Intelligence Requirements for the 21st Century, dedicated to the memory of former CIA Director William J. Casey, discussed "Understanding the Enemy: Will Defense Intelligence Be Strategically Relevant?"
Read More ›Peace and Security: The Highest Policy Priorities
If the proposition is true that society depends on peace and security, then it follows that learning, analysis, advocacy and debate on matters of this vital field ought to be priorities of all citizens, corporations, and foundations concerned about the future of our country.
Read More ›For the New Europe, the Silent Treatment
The next time the United States needs the “new Europe,” we may find it has grown old. This is the likely result of a plan by the Office of Management and Budget to abolish broadcasting by Radio Free Europe and Voice of America in the languages of Central and Eastern Europe.
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USAID Chief to IWP: Foreign Aid Part of National Security Strategy
U.S. Agency for International Development Administrator Andrew Natsios told an IWP audience about how bilateral foreign aid is now a pillar of American national security strategy.
Read More ›On the Inside: Faculty Work on Public Diplomacy, Alliances
A review of IWP faculty members’ latest books, articles, lectures, and other work.
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Review of Anne Applebaum’s “Gulag: A History”
One would not have anticipated that Solzhenitsyn’s monumental expose of the system of Soviet prisons and concentration camps, published over two decades ago, could ever be outdone.Yet Anne Applebaum’s Gulag: A History, astonishingly enough, succeeds.
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What Really Happened In Chile 30 Years Ago
Consider the Chilean revolution of that other September 11 — Sept. 11, 1973. It was less bloody than any other major 20th century revolution and, in economic and political terms it produced the best outcome. And yet, it is the most reviled of any in all the annals of Latin America.
Read More ›The State of Defense Counterintelligence
There can be no Revolution in Military Affairs without a Revolution in Defense Intelligence. There can be no Revolution in Defense Intelligence without a Revolution in Defense Counterintelligence.
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Nonproliferation Hinges on North Korea
Some governments involved with proliferation might see the North Korean talks as an end in themselves. So long as we are negotiating, they hope, Washington can hardly risk killing the talks by taking any adverse actions (e.g., terminating the reactors, interdicting weapons-related shipments, identifying Pyongyang at the U.N. as an NPT violator and possibly sanctioning it there,…
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