Past Events

On December 6th, 2019, Ms. Diane Foley, Founder and President of the James W. Foley Legacy Foundation, came to IWP to speak on issues regarding current U.S. hostage policies. Ms. Foley spoke from a personal place, having lost her son, freelance conflict journalist James “Jim” W. Foley, after he was taken hostage in Syria in…

On January 22, 2020, Dr. Jonathan D.T. Ward, Founder of Atlas Organization, a consultancy firm focused on the rise of China and India, U.S.-China relations, and the new geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific, spoke at The Institute of World Politics. Dr. Ward received his D.Phil. in China-India relations from Oxford University and has traveled extensively through…

On  December 19th, Mr. Ethan S. Burger discussed the domestic and international consequences of Russia’s use of private military companies to advance its foreign policy goals and the international consequences of outsourcing and privatizing these traditional state functions. Mr. Burger is a Washington-D.C. based international attorney and educator with a background in cybersecurity, transnational financial…

On January 16, 2020, Ambassador Jose Manual Romualdez, Ambassador of the Republic of the Philippines to the United States, came to speak at IWP. Ambassador Romualdez elaborated on the relationship between the Philippines and the United States and how this relationship is connected to the broader dynamics of the Indo Pacific. Ambassador Romualdez began the…

On January 14, 2020, Chris Costa, former Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Counterterrorism on the National Security Council (NSC) and current Executive Director of the Spy Museum, came to speak at IWP. Mr. Costa discussed his experience on the NSC in 2017, the global threats that arose during this time, and…

On November 12th, Mr. William McCahill came to IWP to discuss the characteristics and the history behind China’s leadership. Mr. McCahill had a 25-year career in the Foreign Service where he worked in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Beijing and held senior posts in Western Europe, Scandinavia, and Canada. After retiring from the Foreign Service in…

Mr. Ali Wyne came to The Institute of World Politics on November 8, 2019, as a part of the Global Impact Discussion Series, which was founded by IWP alumna Patricia Schouker. Mr. Wyne is a Washington D.C. based policy analyst for the RAND Corporation’s Defense and Political Sciences Department. Mr. Wyne started by discussing the…

On Monday, October 28th, Dr. Colonel (Res.) Shaul Shay came to IWP to discuss his most recent book, The Red Sea Region Between War and Reconciliation. Dr. Shay is a senior research fellow at the International Policy Institute for Counter Terrorism (ICT) and the former Director of Research at the Institute for Strategy and Policy…

Since the oil embargo of the 1970s, the United States has realized the importance of energy in its national security strategy. In a presentation at IWP on November 4, Stephen D. Eule examined the different dimensions of U.S. energy security and how they can be measured in the Index of U.S. Energy Security Risk, before…

On October 29th, 2019, Mr. Sam Dagher, former senior correspondent for The Wall Street Journal and a Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist, came to IWP to speak about his book, Assad or We Burn the Country: How One Family’s Lust for Power Destroyed Syria. Mr. Dagher worked in the Middle East for more than 12 years and…