Press Releases

IWP is very pleased to welcome two new staff members: Ariane Sweeney is our new Senior Vice President of Institutional Advancement, and Emma Chen is our new Director of Accounting. Ariane Sweeney comes to IWP after working with Citizens Against Government Waste for many years, most recently as Vice President, Membership and Development. In this…

IWP is pleased to welcome Colonel Bill Bruner, USAF (Ret.) to its Board of Advisors. Col. Bruner brings four decades of operational, strategic planning, strategic communications, political, and leadership experience on Capitol Hill, in the U.S. Department of Defense, in the private sector, and at NASA to this new role with IWP. IWP Chancellor John…

Longtime IWP professor – and most recently Professor Emeritus – Amb. Alberto Martinez Piedra passed away on December 20, 2021 at the age of 95. For many years, Amb. Piedra taught our course on the Western moral tradition and foreign policy and served as the Donald E. Bently Professor of Political Economy at IWP. Before…

The Institute of World Politics mourns the loss of General Raymond T. Odierno, U.S. Army (Ret.), who passed away on October 9th after a struggle with cancer. General Odierno, an IWP trustee, served as the United States Army’s 38th Chief of Staff from 7 September 2011 to 14 August 2015. IWP Founder, President Emeritus, and…

On November 12, a group of ten interns at The Institute of World Politics participated in a fast-paced simulation (aka Exercise Dragon Teeth) focusing on the threat of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan in the year 2025. Recently inaugurated IWP President Dr. James Anderson designed this event to serve several purposes.  “I wanted to expose…

On November 10th, founder and president of SVB Energy International and IWP professor Dr. Sara Vakhshouri participated in African Energy Week in Cape Town, South Africa. During this conference, Dr. Vakhshouri acted as a moderator for the panel titled “The Geopolitics of Energy in Africa,” where there were discussions regarding strategies to improve energy security…

Two new Great Statesman Scholarships have been established at IWP: Susanna and Philip Rice have established the Margaret Thatcher Scholarship, and Patty Sue Mozart has established the President Ronald Reagan Scholarship. The Great Statesman Scholarship program allows donors to name a scholarship for the statesman of their choice in consultation with IWP leadership, all while…

Dr. Marek Jan Chodakiewicz, Kosciuszko Chair in Polish Studies at The Institute of World Politics, was recently referenced in an article in East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies. The article, titled “The Intermarium in Ukrainian and Polish Foreign Policy Discourse,” was written by Oleksii Polegkyi and discusses the Intermarium concept in the context of Polish-Ukrainian security…

On November 8th, 2021, Dr. Marek Jan Chodakiewicz of The Institute of World Politics spoke at an event hosted by the Janusz Kurtyka Foundation titled “International aspects of the First World War and the battle for Lwów/L’viv, 1918.” The event included presentations by Professor Andrzej Chwalba and Dr. Damian K. Markowski, both of whom won…

Dr. James Anderson appeared on Fox News to discuss the recent Chinese developments of replica U.S. warships. He spoke on why China may be making these replicas, as well as China’s possible intentions. He stated that he does “not believe there is an imminent threat of an amphibious invasion of Taiwan,” but the replicas display…