Students & Alumni

Peter Debbins graduated from IWP in 2015 with a Professional M.A. in Strategic and International Studies. The following is transcribed from an interview with IWP.

IWP alumni Sam Greenwood, Tibor Babic, Mittul Pattni, Nik Hanlon, Jessica B, and Alex Cunningham have joined veteran-owned startup Storm King Analytics as the D.C. based analyst cell.

IWP alumnus Benjamin Fricke (MA ’13) was an editor for a publication entitled Geopolitics and Strategy, A New Strategy for the South Caucasus, sponsored by The Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS), The Georgian Institute of Politics (GIP), and The German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP).

Having launched a Doctor of Statecraft and National Security (Professional) program in November 2017, IWP has enrolled its first ever class of doctoral students this spring. Mr. Brandon Weichert and Captain Paris Michaels are beginning the program this semester.

Matthew O’Brien, an IWP student and director of research at the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), was featured on The Brian Lehrer Show on January 24th, 2018.

In this interview, we speak with Mohammad Shafiq, who graduated from IWP in 2017 with an Executive Master of Arts in National Security Affairs. Shafiq is a Nobel Peace Prize Nominee social activist, writer and analyst.

IWP students recently had the opportunity to visit the Pentagon and meet with Defense Intelligence Agency officials for a private luncheon.

IWP alumnus and Professor Emeritus Gene Poteat, a former intelligence officer, was quoted in a CNBC article about the investigations into recent attacks on American diplomats in Cuba. 

In this interview, we speak with W. Alejandro Sanchez, IWP Class of 2007. Alejandro is an international affairs analyst who focuses on geopolitical and defense issues in the Western Hemisphere.

In this interview, we speak with former IWP student Jason Racki, who is currently working as the Midwest Producer for Fox Business Network.