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For the first time since September 2019, The Institute of World Politics (IWP) hosted its semi-annual Cyber Embassy Night (CEN). Occurring on Friday, November 5, 2022, the event included a number of diplomats, academics, and professionals coming together to discuss and conduct cyber diplomacy. Representatives from dozens of embassies and organizations attended the event. The…

It’s obvious that the war is not going President Vladimir Putin’s way, if he feels compelled to roll out the nukes. For now, the show is primarily to wage psychological warfare against the West and to test the mettle of U.S. President Joe Biden. Read more at Newsmax

From September 27-30, IWP hosted a Strategic Leadership Seminar for a group of personnel and contractors from Ft. Bragg. The seminar was broken up into three main themes: the art of statecraft, the strategic environment, and policy challenges. The specific lecture topics by IWP faculty members included the Constitution and U.S. foreign policy; an overview…

The Alexander Hamilton Society – IWP Chapter recently hosted a lecture for students with Dr. Peter Berkowitz on the topic of “American Grand Strategy and China.” Dr. Berkowitz formerly served as the Director of the State Department’s Policy Planning Staff, executive secretary of the department’s Commission on Unalienable Rights, and senior adviser to the Secretary of State.…

Restoring stability to Israel’s political system requires a couple of fundamental reforms. Ho-hum, another election coming up. Will the cycle never end? Will a stable government finally be formed? And finally, does it matter? After all, the economic, military and international situations are all pretty good to excellent, and as an Israeli friend once told…

On October 28th, IWP professor Dr. Matthew Daniels celebrated the launch of the new Andrew Young HBCU scholarship program at an event at the Atlanta University Consortium library next to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s alma mater, Morehouse College. Dr. Daniels originated the idea for this scholarship. This scholarship aims to support students who attend…

Russia is likely guilty of an abundance of war crimes in the past and now, but here is one that deserves more attention: the crime of abducting children on an industrial scale. By some reports, the number of Ukrainian children forcibly taken to Russia exceeds 200,000. Let’s examine the war crime aspect of these abductions…

The National Military Intelligence Foundation (NMIF) has awarded IWP M.A. candidate Anjuli Ribarevski one of its prestigious scholarships. This scholarship will help Anjuli pursue her M.A. in Statecraft and National Security Affairs with a specialization in Intelligence Studies. Anjuli has extensive experience studying Russian through formal education, living in Narva, Estonia and as a former…

  Coming on the “heels” of the top twelve foreign policy statements in U.S. history, I now have the (unpleasant) task of rating the bottom six episodes. I write “unpleasant” since nobody wants to know his/her “dark” side or even to acknowledge that such things even exist. Well, they do, and, as we all know,…

Vangala Ram, an intelligence and Foreign Service professional who was one of IWP’s earliest students in 1992, has joined IWP’s Cyber Intelligence Initiative team as an instructor. This fall, he taught a course on “Intelligence and the Law” for IWP in Africa. Mr. Ram recently retired from the U.S. Foreign Service as a Senior FSO,…