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IWP establishes new Center for Energy Security and Diplomacy

Under the leadership of Dr. Sara Vakhshouri, IWP has established a new Center for Energy Security and Diplomacy. This new Center will leverage IWP’s established strengths and regional expertise to meet the pressing academic demand for critical analysis and objective risk assessment in the strategically significant and often misunderstood field of energy security and energy…

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Evaluating US defense posture in light of great power competition

This article seeks a debate on the future of the US defense posture in the Great Power Competition. It contains a robust list of defense initiatives to consider in improving the US defense posture. Since the United States is no longer in combat operations in CENTCOM, now is the time to focus on changing the…

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Four Kings Point Midshipmen receiving a cyber award from IWP

Four Kings Point Midshipmen receive cyber award from IWP

Four Midshipmen from the United States Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point received The Institute of World Politics Award for Excellence in Cyber Statecraft during the Class of 2023 Awards Convocation Ceremony on June 16th. The award winners were MIDN Allison Malia Aitken, MIDN Christopher Vincent Quinn, MIDN Dante Michael Spina, and MIDN Anai Marie…

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Nixon: “What In Hell is the Taiwan Independence Movement?”

Last week, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken travelled to Beijing on a mission “to cool exploding tensions” (as the Associated Press puts it). The Secretary’s counterparts on the Chinese side aver — as they have for fifty years — that blame for exploding tensions is entirely with the Americans. And exploding tensions now, as…

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Jillian at the 2023 Commencement ceremony

Jillian Black (‘23): From Business to Government Service

Jillian Black (‘23) discovered her interest in international affairs and national security while in high school. After graduating college with degrees in business and Russian, she knew she wanted to be in Washington, D.C. Jillian decided to pursue her interest in international affairs and started at IWP in the spring of 2021. While studying for…

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Female Zeravani soldiers learn tactical movements, U.S. Army photo by Spc. Jessica Hurst

IWP offers new course on Female Roles in Contemporary Insurgencies & Small Armies

Christine Balling (’16), a former advisor to the U.S. Special Operations South commander and U.S. Army Civil Affairs teams deployed in Colombia, will be teaching a new two-credit course on “Female Roles in Contemporary Insurgencies & Small Armies.” In addition to studying women in contemporary insurgencies and small armies, the course will examine gender-specific public…

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Dr. Nahro Zagros, Paul Davis, Dr. Dawood S. Atrushi, Dean Lane

IWP leadership meets with University of Duhok representatives

IWP Professor Paul Davis, Executive Vice President Chris Glass, and Chief Information Officer Dean Lane met with representatives of the University of Duhok on June 19. Attending from Kurdistan was Dr. Nahro Zagros who works with the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Prime Minister and Dr. Dawood S. Atrushi. Dr. Dawood is the President of the…

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Dr. Wayne Schroeder participates in Atlantic Council trip to Romania

IWP Adjunct Professor Dr. Wayne A. Schroeder participated in an Atlantic Council Black Sea Task Force trip to Romania from June 4-10 in Bucharest and Constanta. The AC Black Sea Task Force will be issuing a report with actionable recommendations to strengthen Black Sea security later this summer. Dr. Schroeder, a Nonresident Senior Fellow with…

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