Past Events

Libby Liu, Radio Free Asia President, spoke about Radio Free Asia’s mission as the first in a series of lectures on Women Executives on National Security at The Institute of World Politics. 

“People [in Afghanistan] would come up to me and tell me their life stories. People in uniform,” said Dr. Corey Lofdahl at the beginning of a lecture at The Institute of World Politics. 

On November 9, 2015, The Institute of World Politics was pleased to welcome Dr. Joseph J. Collins for a lecture entitled “Strategic Lessons of the Campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq.”

On Monday, November 16, The Institute of World Politics presented the final lecture in its Charles Koch Foundation Series on U.S. Foreign Policy and Grand Strategy, inviting Dr. Carnes Lord, professor of strategic leadership at the U.S. Naval War College and former staff member of the National Security Council.

Below is a transcript of a lecture by Barry R. Posen, Ford International Professor of Political Science at MIT and Director of the MIT Security Studies Program.  This lecture, entitled “Restraint: A New Foundation for U.S. Grand Strategy” was delivered at IWP on September 24, 2015, and was sponsored by the Charles Koch Foundation.

On Tuesday October 6, 2015, the Institute of World Politics hosted writer Jay Nordlinger, who is a senior editor with National Review, to talk about his new book, Children of Monsters: An Inquiry into the Sons and Daughters of Dictators.

On Tuesday, November 17, IWP welcomed Michael E. O’Hanlon, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, to give a talk on his book entitled Order from Chaos: The Future of Land Warfare. This was the first of IWP’s Global Impact Session Series.

On November 2, 2015, The Institute of World Politics welcomed Andrew L. Traver, the director of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS), who spoke on the current state and future of the NCIS, its mission and professional opportunities within the organization. This event was sponsored by IWP Career Services.

On October 21, 2015, The Institute of World Politics hosted a lecture with Dr. David Glancy on the elements of economics and finance within national security. This lecture was part of a series on Economics and Foreign Policy sponsored by the Charles Koch Foundation.

Christopher J. Coyne, Associate Professor of Economics at George Mason University and Associate Director of the F. A. Hayek Program at the Mercatus Center, gave a lecture at The Institute of World Politics on October 20, 2015. Dr. Coyne lectured on humanitarianism and its definition. In its broadest sense, humanitarianism is a concern for the…