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IWP Faculty and Expertise

Christine Balling

Christine Balling

Senior Vice President for Professional Affiliations, IWP; Founder of Fundación ECCO; Former Advisor to the US SOCSOUTH Commander (Full bio)

  • Latin America
  • Public Diplomacy
  • Counterinsurgency
  • Women Peace and Security
Anne Bradley

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 (Full bio)

  • Economic Education
  • Biblical Theology of Economic Freedom
  • Political Economy of Terrorism
  • Industrial Organization of Al-Qaeda
  • Economic Analysis
  • Economic Analysis of Terrorist Groups
Dr. John Callahan

John Marshall Callahan

Adjunct Professor (Full bio)

  • Public Affairs/Strategic Communication
  • Exercise and Wargame Development
  • Operations and Interagency Planning
Glenn Corn

Glenn Corn

34-year Veteran of the U.S. Intelligence and Foreign Affairs Communities (Full bio)

  • National Security Affairs
  • Russia and Eurasian Affairs
  • Turkey/Caspian Region and Central Asian Issues
  • Counterterrorism
  • Diplomacy
Aaron Danis

Aaron A. Danis

Non-Resident Scholar-Practitioner at IWP, Former Senior Analyst with the U.S. Government, Former U.S. Army Intelligence Officer (Full bio)

  • Terrorism and Counterterrorism
  • Military Studies
  • Security Policy
  • Domestic Terrorism
  • Wargames
Dr. David Glancy

David Glancy

Walter and Leonore Annenberg Chair of International Communication; Professor of Strategy and Statecraft (Full bio)

  • Strategic Communications
  • Political-Military Relationships
  • National Security Policy
  • Economic Statecraft
  • Political Risk Analysis and Forecasting
  • Propaganda
  • Influence
  • Public Diplomacy
  • Political Warfare
  • American Foreign Policy
Dr. Christopher C. Harmon

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 (Full bio)

  • Theory & Nature of War
  • Terrorism
  • Counterterrorism
  • Insurgency
  • Counterinsurgency
  • International Relations
  • Foreign Policy
John Lenczowski

John Lenczowski

Founder, President Emeritus, and Chancellor, The Institute of World Politics; Former Director of European and Soviet Affairs, National Security Council (Full bio)

  • Communism
  • American Foreign Policy
  • American Ethics
  • Diplomacy
  • Intelligence Policy
  • International Relations
  • Russia
  • Public Diplomacy
Joshua Muravchik

Joshua Muravchik

Former Distinguished Fellow, the World Affairs Institute; Former Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute; Former Aide to Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (Full bio)

  • Communism
  • Political Science
  • Public Diplomacy
  • Political Ideologies
  • Foreign Policy
  • Democracy
John Quattrocki

John J. Quattrocki

Former Vice President, CACI’s National Intelligence Solutions Group; Former Senior Executive on the National Security Council Staff (Full bio)

  • National Security
  • Counterintelligence
  • Intelligence Policy and Operations
  • Foreign Intelligence Systems
  • Russia and Warsaw Pact Countries
  • East Asia and Islamic Extremist Groups
  • Domestic Terrorism
  • Homeland Security
  • Intelligence Community Reform
Dr. James S. Robbins

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 (Full bio)

  • Terrorism
  • National Security Strategy
  • Political Theory
  • Military History
Wayne Schroeder

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 (Full bio)

  • Defense strategy and planning
  • Nuclear strategy and arms control
  • S. bilateral security agreements
  • Multilateral diplomacy
  • Military and defense budgeting
  • Strategic intelligence
  • Policy analysis and public service
  • European military mobility
Charles Snyder

Charles Snyder

Former Senior Advisor to the State Department’s International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Bureau; Former National Intelligence Officer for Africa (Full bio)

  • African Politics
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Military Affairs
  • Drug Trafficking
  • Police Training
Douglas Streusand

Douglas E. Streusand

Professor, Marine Corps Command & Staff College (Full bio)

  • Politics and Warfare in the Islamic World
  • Grand Strategy
  • Naval and Military History and Strategy
  • World History
John Tkacik

John Tkacik

Adjunct Professor; Former Chief of China Analysis at the U.S. State Department Office of Intelligence and Research (Full bio)

  • Asia policy and strategy
  • S.-Asia diplomacy
  • S.-China/Taiwan affairs
  • Intelligence analysis, coordination, and dissemination
  • Taiwan’s economics and politics
  • Diplomatic analysis and briefings
  • Chinese economic, military, and political intelligence
  • Taiwan’s economics and politics

S. John Tsagronis

Professor of Statecraft and National Security Affairs; Former Senior Director for Policy Implementation and Execution on the National Security Council Staff (Full bio)

  • National Security Affairs
  • National Security Strategy
  • Counterinsurgency
Sara Vakhshouri

Sara Vakhshouri

Adjunct Professor of Energy Security; Chair of the Center for Energy Security and Diplomacy at IWP; Founder and President, SVB Energy International (Full bio)

  • Energy Diplomacy
  • Energy Security
  • Energy Strategy
  • Geopolitical Risk
  • Geopolitics of Energy