Summaries of past extracurricular lectures at IWP may be found below. For more information, please see upcoming events at IWP, join our invitation list, or listen to our videos or podcasts.
Costa Rican Ambassador gives talk on the geopolitics of his country
On May 12, 2016, The Institute of World Politics hosted Ambassador Roman Macaya at an event entitled, “Costa Rica, a Geopolitical Crossroads: Drugs, Refugees, and Terrorism.”
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On May 10, 2016, a panel spoke at The Institute of World Politics at a seminar entitled, “Improving Civ-Mil Relations for a Stronger Military Chaplaincy.”
Read More from IWP holds event on “Improving Civ-Mil Relations for a Stronger Military Chaplaincy” ›LTG Mary Legere discusses leadership in Army intelligence
On April 21, Lieutenant General Mary Legere spoke at The Institute of World Politics on leadership lessons learned during her 34 years in the Army.
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On April 13, 2016 at The Institute of World Politics campus, Stephen F. Knott, Professor of National Security Affairs at the Naval War College, spoke about spy techniques used by the American founding fathers in a lecture titled “Espionage, Kidnapping, and the Dark Art of Spycraft at America’s Founding.”
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On April 8, Aaron L. Friedberg, Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University, gave a lecture at The Institute of World Politics, where he discussed his book,A Contest for Supremacy: China, America, and the Struggle for Mastery in Asia.
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On March 29, Dr. R. Evan Ellis, Senior Associate with the Americas Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, gave a lecture at The Institute of World Politics on Russia’s and China’s influence in Latin America.
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Author and Former associate editor for Time Magazine Michael Walsh gave a lecture entitled “Behind Enemy Lines: The Adventures of an American Correspondent During the Cold War” at The Institute of World Politics on April 6, in which he described three unique Cold War experiences as a journalist.
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On Wednesday March 2nd, the first of three panels in a conference organized by Providence: A Journal of Christianity and American Foreign Policy spoke on the topic of women and their current and planned roles in combat.
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On Wednesday, March 2, three panelists spoke at The Institute of World Politics about the current situation in Syria involving the U.S. and Russia as part of a panel series co-sponsored by Providence: A Journal of Christianity and American Foreign Policy and IWP. This particular panel was the last of three in a conference entitled, “Providence, Military…
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Robert D. Kaplan, best-selling author and Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security, spoke at The Institute of World Politics on March 3 to discuss his new book In Europe’s Shadow: Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond.
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