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On October 8th, Arash Yaqin, a Master’s candidate in the Statecraft and National Security Affairs program at IWP, participated in a Stimson Center virtual panel discussion as a part of a South Asian Voices Project. About ArashYaqin Mr. Yaqin is a native Afghan who lived as a refugee in Russia and Europe for two decades.…

Mark Beall (IWP Class of 2009) is currently serving as head of strategic engagement and policy at the Department of Defense’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC). JAIC recently brought together a coalition of 13 countries to discuss ethics and artificial intelligence (AI) in the military. JAIC hosted an international virtual forum, calling it the AI…

On August 19th, 2020 The Institute of World Politics hosted a webinar entitled “Countering Islamist Political Extremism by Orchestrating the Instruments of National Power” which was a part of the Winning Without War series. The event featured Dr. Christopher C. Harmon and Dr. Douglas E. Streusand and was moderated by Michael C. Maibach, an IWP…

“We didn’t kill anybody. A few of us were killed … but we made sure that non-violence was the way that we helped America grow in grace and in the purity of its own vision.” — Ambassador Andrew Young In an era when America is looking more and more like a tinderbox waiting to catch on fire, we…

This article was written by IWP student Arash Yaqin.  The February U.S.-Taliban agreement paved the way for an ending to America’s “endless wars” and the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan. The two-decade war, which cost the United States nearly 2,500 American lives and more than two trillion dollars, with arguably limited success, is considered the longest military engagement…

Ryan Scherba (IWP Class of 2019) of Balkan Insider hosted a webinar with Serbia’s Chief Negotiator for the Kosovo-Serbia Dialogue, Mr. Marko Djuric. Mr. Djuric gave an inside perspective on some of the signed documents and discussions from Washington, D.C. that took place in early September. Mr. Djuric discussed the fact that Serbian President Aleksandar…

A low-level war has broken out anew between Armenia and Azerbaijan in the southeast of the Intermarium, in the Caucasus, just east of the Black Sea. Both sides blame each other for the outbreak of the hostilities. This unfrozen conflict is simply a continuity of the previous ones that have plagued the area since the First…

In an interview with The Epoch Times’ Jan Jekielek first published on September 24th, 2020, IWP adjunct professor Rebeccah Heinrichs discussed the multitude of threats posed by the Chinese Communist Party and Russia. An expert in missile defense and nuclear deterrence, Dr. Heinrichs contended that the Chinese Communist Party is the greatest threat to the…

Boston On September 9, 1919, the Boston police force went on strike against what the police union called poor labor and wage conditions. The strike lasted five days and to this day represents the first and only organized police strike in American history. But considering the conditions in cities today, with calls for defunding and…

Mary Ann Novak recently donated a bust of Alexander Hamilton, the first Secretary of the Treasury, to The Institute of World Politics. This bust was created by Karen Laub-Novak, an established, well-known, and widely recognized artist and the wife of Michael Novak. Mr. Novak was an influential author, philosopher, theologian, and analyst of society and…