Past Events

On Friday, April 1, IWP hosted a screening of the film Iranium, followed by comments by Amir Abbas Fakhravar, Research Fellow at IWP’s Center for Culture and Security, Secretary General of the Confederation of Iranian Students, and President of the Iranian Freedom Institute. 

On Tuesday, March 29, 2011, COL(ret.) Dr. Larry Wortzel, who serves on the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, provided a congressional-level briefing on the current Chinese strategy and associated U.S. policy implications.

In World War II and the Cold War, the Western democracies had the luxury of focusing on a single threat to the exclusion of others – a luxury we lack today, as Dr. Douglas E. Streusand noted in his discussion of totalitarian Islamism at The Institute of World Politics on 30 March 2011.

On Wednesday, March 16th, John M. DeMaggio, Special Agent in Charge (ret)/ Captain USN (ret), discussed “Application of Forensic Science to Intelligence Analysis.”

On Friday, March 11, 2011, Hon. Edwin Meese III, 75th Attorney General of the United States and chief advisor to President Reagan, hosted a screening of In the Face of Evil: Reagan’s War in Word and Deed at IWP. 

On Thursday, March 3, 2011, Dr. Timothy Brown, Director for the Americas, Centre International du Reserches et d’Etudes Sur le Terrorisme, gave a talk entitled “From SLOCs to Locks – A Geostrategic Exercise in Connect-the-Dots, from China to China.”

On Tuesday, February 22, 2011, David Archibald, an Australian scientist working in the fields of oil exploration, medical research, climate science and energy, spoke at IWP on “Climate and U.S. Energy Security.”

On Friday, February 18, 2011, Major General Michael T. Flynn, who has been nominated for Assistant Deputy National Intelligence (DNI), and recently served as Chief, CJ2, International Security Assistance Force and CJ2, United States Forces – Afghanistan, gave a report to IWP students, faculty, and friends on Afghanistan and Pakistan.

On Friday, January 28, 2011, the 35th Surgeon General of the US Navy, Dr. Don Arthur, discussed medical diplomacy at IWP. He was introduced by an IWP friend and supporter RADM Dave Rogers. Admiral Rogers described Dr. Arthur’s many professional and academic achievements.

On Wednesday, July 7, Rear Admiral David Rogers USN, Ret., discussed the qualities of leadership and the importance of personal relationships in interagency and international operations at a gathering of IWP students, interns, and friends.