The IWP Student Speaker Series features the research of the IWP student body.
With the goal of providing IWP students with the opportunity to present a research paper of their choosing to the greater IWP community and general public, this initiative seeks to provide an environment in which IWP students engage with and respond to one another’s work, following which the floor is opened to discussion.
Learn more about speaking in this series.
Past lectures in this series include:
Conquering the Datasphere: Assessing the Threat of Chinese Data Collection
with Laren Reesman
March 13, 2025
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Repatriation of North Korean Refugees Escaping Through Southeast Asia
with Peace Ajirotutu
March 3, 2025
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Juche and North Korean Special Operations Forces
with Michael Liu
February 6, 2025
Lecture Information
China’s Space Operations: Assessing PLA Capabilities for a U.S. Strategy
with Carlos Alatorre
March 12, 2024
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Wagner Group: The Privatization of the Instruments of National Power
with Dr. John McCarthy, Senior Program Advisor, US Navy
February 28, 2024
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Developing Deradicalization Programs for US Domestic Extremism
with Dr. Baiju Gandhi
March 30, 2023
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Muqtada al-Sadr and the Mahdi Army: Friend or Foe Lessons Leaerned from the Russo-Ukraine War and How They Can Be Applied to a U.S.-China Conflict
with Robert Roseberry
January 30, 2023
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Modern Applications of Xenophon’s Persian Expedition
with Sean Honesty
November 14, 2022
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PRC Cyber Attacks on Taiwan: What the U.S. Should Learn from Them
with Gillian Hand
November 7, 2022
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Chernobyl: The First Domino in the Fall of the Soviet Union
with CPT Wendell P. Bryant III
September 14, 2022
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Muqtada al-Sadr and the Mahdi Army: Friend or Foe
with Caroline Hickey
IWP Student Symposium 2021
May 13, 2021
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Avenging Angels: Russia’s Legacy of Female Terrorism
with Emily Miller
IWP Student Symposium 2021
May 13, 2021
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Incels as a Domestic Terrorist Group
with Hannah Wilk
IWP Student Symposium 2021
May 13, 2021
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The Implications of China’s Belt & Road Initiative for US National Security
with Jared K. Martin
IWP Student Symposium 2020
September 11, 2020
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New Age Public Diplomacy
with Phoebe Gor
IWP Student Symposium 2020
September 11, 2020
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Deal of the Decade: How the United States Should Handle Afghanistan
with Caroline Hickey
IWP Student Symposium 2020
September 11, 2020
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ACTING – In the Interest of National Security
with Sebastian Smeureanu
August 4, 2020
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IWP Student Symposium 2019
with Erik Khzmalyan, Kelly Zug, Helen Lamm, and Tobias Brandt, IWP Class of 2019
May 16, 2019
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America and Canada: The Statecraft of Two Nations
with Cory Ott
April 18, 2019
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The Impact of Religion on the American Character
with Tobias Brandt
October 2, 2018
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Russia’s Pacific Fleet: History, Strategy, and Attempts for Revival
with Erik Khzmalyan
May 17, 2018
IWP Student Symposium
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What the Founders Took for Granted
with with Helen Lamm
IWP Student Symposium
May 17, 2018
Chinese Economic and Security Statecraft in Central Asia
with David Stoffey
May 17, 2018
IWP Student Symposium
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Terrorist Threat in the Mali and Sahel Region
with Mamadou Niang
May 17, 2018
IWP Student Symposium
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Chinese Methods for Industrial Espionage
a lecture with Mr. Logan Dopp, Current graduate student at The Institute of World Politics
April 19, 2018
Lecture information
Why Some Fail and Others Succeed: An Analysis of The Iranian Revolutionary
Guard Corps Quds Force in Iraq and Syria
with Travis Morrison
June 30, 2016
Lecture information
Indian Naval Strategy: Ensuring Cooperative Behavior for U.S. Interests
with James Di Pane
June 14, 2016
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Student Symposium 2016
Co-hosted by IWP Student Ambassadors
May 19, 2016
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What Public Service Meant to the Founding Fathers
with Samuel Greenwood
October 28, 2015
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Student Symposium 2015: The Greater Syrian-Mesopotamian Crisis
Co-hosted by IWP Student Ambassadors
May 14, 2015
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