This fall, Ilan Berman, Senior Vice President of the American Foreign Policy Council (AFPC), is joining the IWP faculty to teach a new online course on International Law and Global Security (IWPO 725).
International Law and Global Security is a survey course designed to introduce students to the core principles and defining features of the international legal system and to the changing role of international law in contemporary national and global security. Emphasis will be placed on the applicability of international law to armed conflict, counterterrorism, and containing the spread of weapons of mass destruction.
Prof. Berman is Senior Vice President of the American Foreign Policy Council (AFPC) in Washington, D.C., and is an expert on regional security in the Middle East, Central Asia, and Russia. He has consulted for the Central Intelligence Agency and the U.S. Departments of State and Defense. He has assisted various governmental agencies and congressional offices with foreign policy and national security issues.
Prof. Berman is also a member of the Associated Faculty at Missouri State University’s Department of Defense and Strategic Studies. A frequent writer and commentator, he has written for the Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, the New York Times, Foreign Policy, the Washington Post, and USA Today, among many other publications.
In November 2023, Prof. Berman gave a talk at IWP on “Moscow and Tehran: U.S. Policy Considerations.”