The faculty at The Institute of World Politics includes ambassadors, senior intelligence officials, military officers, presidential advisers, senior government analysts, and thought leaders in international affairs. The great majority are scholar-practitioners with both academic credentials and high-level governmental and nongovernmental experience in the subjects they teach.
Featured Faculty

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John R. Sano

Darlene Almont
All Faculty
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Chris Almont
Senior Defense Intelligence Analyst for DIA’s Defense Combating Terrorism Center
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Darlene Almont
Intelligence professional with over 30 years of military and civilian experience
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Maria Anastassiathe
Adjunct Professor of Greek Language
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Norman A. Bailey
Professor of Economics and National Security; Former Senior Director of International Economic Affairs, White House National Security Council
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Christine Balling
Founder of Fundación ECCO; Former Advisor to the Colombian Army; Former Subject Matter Expert for the U.S. Special Operations South Commander
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Raymond J. Batvinis
Former Supervisory Special Agent and Basic Counterintelligence Course Instructor, FBI
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Joseph Billingsley
Adjunct Professor, Founder of the Military Cyber Professionals Association (MCPA)
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Robert Bland
Affiliated Faculty Member and Instructor for the Lynde and Harry Bradley Seminar on Constitutional and Economic Principles
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Anne Rathbone Bradley
IWP Professor; George and Sally Mayer Fellow for Economic Education and Academic Director at the Fund for American Studies; former Economic Analyst for the CIA's Office of Terrorism Analysis
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Marek Jan Chodakiewicz
Professor of History, The Kosciuszko Chair in Polish Studies, Director of the Center for Intermarium Studies
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Glenn Corn
34-year Veteran of the U.S. Intelligence and Foreign Affairs Communities
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Matthew Daniels
Chair of Law and Human Rights; Founder of the Center for Human Rights and International Affairs; Founder of Good of All
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Aaron A. Danis
Professor, Former Senior Analyst with the U.S. Government, Former U.S. Army Intelligence Officer
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Paul M. Davis
Vice President of Government Business Development, SecureDAM; Founder and President of JANUS Think
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Kenneth deGraffenreid
Professor Emeritus, Former Deputy National Counterintelligence Executive
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John J. Dziak
Former Senior Intelligence Officer and Executive in the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the Defense Intelligence Agency
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David Glancy
Walter and Leonore Annenberg Chair of International Communication; Professor of Strategy and Statecraft
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Paul A. Goble
Former Special Advisor to the Secretary of State; Former Senior Advisor to the Director, Voice of America
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Christopher C. Harmon
IWP Professor; Distinguished Fellow, Brute Krulak Center for Innovation and Future Warfare, Marine Corps University; Former Director of Counterterrorism Studies Programs in Asia and Europe for the U.S. Government
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Rebeccah Heinrichs
Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute; Former Vice Chairman of the John Hay Initiative's Counterproliferation Working Group; Former Adviser to Rep. Trent Franks
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Nathan Hodge
Adjunct Professor; Senior Intelligence Officer on the Joint Staff at the Pentagon
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G. Philip Hughes
Senior Vice President, Council of American Ambassadors; former Ambassador to Barbados & the Eastern Caribbean
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Jeff Johnson
Adjunct Professor of National Security Affairs; Former Army Combat Arms Officer and Foreign Affairs Specialist
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John Lenczowski
Founder, President Emeritus, and Chancellor, The Institute of World Politics; Former Director of European and Soviet Affairs, National Security Council
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Christofilis Maggidis
President of the Mycenaean Foundation; Active field archaeologist in Greece
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Elizabeth Mastri
Russian Professor; Russian instructor to officials at the U.S. State Department and military personnel at the Pentagon
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Timothy McCranor
Adjunct Professor
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Nathan Merrifield
Adjunct Professor of Chinese Language
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Alan Messer
Adjunct Professor, Former Central Intelligence Agency Analyst and Operations Officer with 32 Years of Combined Experience
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Joshua Muravchik
Former Distinguished Fellow, the World Affairs Institute; Former Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute; Former Aide to Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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Michael Pillsbury
Consultant, U.S. Department of Defense; Former Assistant Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Planning
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John J. Quattrocki
Former Vice President, CACI’s National Intelligence Solutions Group; Former Senior Executive on the National Security Council Staff
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James S. Robbins
Dean of Academics, IWP; Senior Fellow in National Security Affairs at the American Foreign Policy Council; Former special assistant in the Office of the Secretary of Defense
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Karina Rollins
Adjunct Professor
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John R. Sano
Adjunct Professor; Former Deputy Director, National Clandestine Service, CIA
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Albert Santoli
Founder and President, Asia America Initiative; New York Times Best Selling and Pulitzer Prize Nominated Author
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Paul Schilling
Adjunct Professor, Intelligence and Law; Served with the Central Intelligence Agency’s Office of General Counsel
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Caitlin E. Schindler
Adjunct Professor; Management Consultant with Coverent
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Wayne A. Schroeder
Adjunct Professor; Member, Board of Advisors, Foreign Policy Research Institute; Nonresident Senior Fellow, Transatlantic Security Initiative, Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, Atlantic Council
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Charles R. Smith
Professor and Dean Emeritus; Professor Emeritus, Marymount University
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Charles Snyder
Former Senior Advisor to the State Department's International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Bureau; Former National Intelligence Officer for Africa
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Henry D. Sokolski
Executive Director, Nonproliferation Policy Education Center; Former Deputy for Nonproliferation Policy, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy
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Douglas E. Streusand
Professor, Marine Corps Command & Staff College
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Dennis Teti
IWP Professor; Former Senior Advisor with the House Budget Committee; Former consultant for the House Financial Services Committee
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David L. Thomas
Professor of Intelligence Studies; Former Analyst, Foreign Intelligence Directorate, DIA; Former Analyst, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
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John J. Tierney, Jr.
Professor Emeritus; Former Special Assistant and Foreign Affairs Officer, U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
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John Tkacik
Adjunct Professor; Former Chief of China Analysis at the U.S. State Department Office of Intelligence and Research
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S. John Tsagronis
Professor of Statecraft and National Security Affairs; Former Senior Director for Policy Implementation and Execution on the National Security Council Staff
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Sara Vakhshouri
Adjunct Professor of Energy Security; Director of the Center for Energy Security and Diplomacy at IWP; Founder and President, SVB Energy International
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Henry P. Williams III
Adjunct Professor, Former Wall Street and International Investment Banker
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Amanda Won
Adjunct Professor; Director, China/Asia Program