Past Events

Dr. Marcin Chmielowski, Vice President of the Poland-based Freedom and Entrepreneurship Foundation (Fundacja Wolnosci i Przedsiebiorczosci) spoke at The Institute of World Politics on Wednesday, March 29 in a lecture entitled “Civil Society at the Crossroads:  Three Models and the Case of Poland.”

In what capacity have women served in intelligence? Eugene Poteat-former CIA Scientific Intelligence Officer and IWP Professor Emeritus-sought to provide an answer and dispel falsehoods about the role of women in intelligence in a lecture entitled “Women in Intelligence:  Fantasy vs. Reality.”

On March 7th, The Institute of World Politics held its second lecture of the IWP Capitol Hill Speaker Series. Dr. Mackubin Owens, Dean of Academic Affairs, moderated the lecture by IWP visiting fellow Michael A. Walsh, who spoke on the necessity of culture and art in the process of creating policies.

In a recent lecture moderated by Dr. Douglas Streusand, entitled “The Case for a New Approach to Europe,” Dr. Ted Bromund, Senior Research Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, spoke on the history of American commitment to Europe in the twentieth century and proposed how the American relationship to Europe should change in the coming decades.…

On September 7, 2016 former CIA operations officer Sam Faddis traveled to the Institute of World Politics to speak about Terrorism, Human Intelligence, and Homeland Security. 

Mr. Flichy de La Neuville discussed security issues related to the changing balance of power in the world as presented in his book 2030 : Le monde que la CIA n’imagine pas with a special focus on Eastern Europe.

On September 16, IWP hosted Matthew Spalding, Associate Vice President and Dean of Educational Programs for Hillsdale College, to discuss the U.S. Constitution and the Rule of Law.

A panel of experts on Indo-Pacific affairs spoke on July 22nd about India’s geopolitical aspirations, its air force’s role in facilitating these, and why they are compatible with U.S. policy interests in the region, as well as those of smaller countries in the Indian Ocean. The experts on this panel were Air Marshal M. Matheswaran,…

On Thursday July 7, IWP hosted an event entitled “Chavismo: The Cost of Sustaining the Venezuelan Political Economy.” 

On June 9, Former Vice President of the Polish-American Enterprise Fund Francis Skrobiszewski delivered a lecture reflecting on the successes of post-Communist reconstruction efforts in Central Europe.