Press Releases

IWP Adjunct Professor Henry Sokolski appeared on the nationally-televised newscast "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" on April 25, 2008 to discuss nuclear proliferation and North Korea.  In addition to teaching a course entitled "Nuclear Weapons Proliferation" at IWP, Professor Sokolski is Executive Director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center and a prolific writer on issues…

Students of Prof. Charles Smith's "American Founding Principles and Foreign Policy" course visited Gettysburg National Military Park on Saturday, April 25. The field trip, one of the course requirements and a highlight of the semester, included a visit to the new Visitors Center and a tour of the battlefield led by Prof. Smith. Some of…

Captain Terry Parisher, the Institute's first intern from the US Army, completed his three-month tour at the Institute on April 25, 2008.  IWP presented Capt. Parisher with a Certificate of Participation in the Joint, Interagency, Intergovernmental, and Multinational Internship Program which he completed at IWP while working closely with Institute professors, attending classes at the…

Foreign Affairs published a review of Dr. John Tierney's remarkable book Chasing Ghosts: Unconventional Warfare in American History in its May/June 2008 issue.

IWP is pleased to announce that sweatshirts and other items emblazoned with the Institute’s logo are now available for sale. 

The television news magazine Dan Rather Reports came to IWP on Friday, February 29, 2008 to tape a roundtable discussion of efforts to reform the US intelligence community, the structure of CIA, and the role of the National Security Council as a consumer of intelligence.Participating in the discussion with Dan Rather were IWP's founder and…

Accuracy in Media has awarded the 2008 Reed Irvine Accuracy in Media Award to IWP adjunct professor Dr. Lee Edwards for his service as chairman of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation. 

The United States Secret Service has invited IWP students to apply to serve as student trainee intelligence analysts for the Intelligence Division of the Service's Office of Protective Research.  Students accepted for this program will have the opportunity to participate in a wide variety of complex analytical projects, as well as continue their studies in intelligence,…

“There has been a catastrophic loss of ideological warriors” throughout the US government.  That’s what Dr. John Lenczowski, founder and president of The Institute of World Politics, reported to a group of fifty senior U.S. Army officers and civilians at the Pentagon on December 5, 2007.   Dr. Lenczowski was discussing the problems of creating an integrated…

The Institute of World Politics is pleased to announce that S. Eugene Poteat and Dr. Raymond J. Batvinis have joined its faculty to teach two new graduate courses. Professor Poteat has over forty years of experience in conceiving, planning, developing, and implementing high-tech programs related to intelligence and national security.  From 1960 to 1980, he…