Speeches & Lectures

Rear Admiral Thomas A. Brooks, United States Navy (retired) gave a lecture on “HUMINT: Myths and Reality” to a group of IWP students, alumni, fellows, and interns on January 23, 2015. 

On December 5, 2013, LTG Michael T. Flynn, Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, gave the 18th Annual Pearl Harbor Day Lecture at The Institute of World Politics. 

Zack Nunn, Director for Cybersecurity Policy on the White House National Security Council, gave a guest lecture in the Cyber Statecraft class (IWP 663) on November 20. 

On July 18, The Institute of World Politics hosted Ammar Abdulhamid, a Syrian pro-democracy activist who currently lives in exile for his activities against the Syrian regime.

RADM David N. Rogers, USN (Ret), a highly experienced naval aviator and current IWP trustee, met the Institute’s summer interns to share thoughts on leadership and some of his life experiences.

IWP interns were fortunate to have a lecture by one of the Central Intelligence Agency’s finest, Burton Gerber. Mr. Gerber served with the CIA for 39 years as a case officer and Chief of Station in three communist countries. He currently is a professor at Georgetown University’s Center for Security Studies.

In his recent lecture to IWP interns entitled “Strategic Bombing; the Nuclear Revolution, and City-Busting,” Professor Sokolski examined the historical, technical, and ethical questions of strategic bombing of cities.

With Poland’s release from Communist captivity and its subsequent accession to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, its strategic situation was transformed and seemed to have improved dramatically.  Poland’s security is in reality not what it appears to be.  Rather, Poland’s security situation, in my estimation, has deteriorated and is likely to deteriorate further.  As this…

On July 22nd, Ambassador Vince Obsitnik, former U.S. Ambassador to the Slovak Republic, spoke at IWP.  The topic of his discussion was “Slovakia: Past and Future.”

On Tuesday, July 20, 2010, 39-year CIA veteran Burton Gerber delivered a lecture on “The Ethics of Intelligence: During the Cold War and the Age of Terrorism” to an audience of IWP students, interns, and friends.