The Institute of World Politics

This lecture on the international energy outlook of several regions of the West was filmed on Nov. 12, at the Zdzislaw R. Zakrzewski 9th Annual Kosciuszko Chair Conference. This conference occurred at The Institute of World Politics.

Mrs. Maria Juczewska unpacks the reasons for why young Poles are emigrating at the beginning of the 21st century. This lecture was part of the Zdzislaw R. Zakrzewski 9th Annual Kosciuszko Chair Conference, given at The Institute of World Politics on November 12, 2016.

Amb. Courtney and Dr. Paul discuss the themes in their recent article, "Firehose of Falsehoods: Russian propaganda is pervasive, and America is behind the power curve in countering it." They will refer to the RAND Corporation report on "The Russian ‘Firehose of Falsehood' Propaganda Model: Why It Might Work and Options to Counter It." This lecture was given at The Institute of World Politics on November 10th 2016.

Amb. William Courtney is an adjunct senior fellow at the RAND Corporation and executive director of the RAND Business Leaders Forum. He is also president of the U.S.-Kazakhstan Business Association, which represents U.S. exporters to and investors in Kazakhstan. In 2014 he retired from Computer Sciences Corporation as senior principal for federal policy strategy. From 1972 through 1999, he was a Foreign Service officer in the U.S. Department of State.He served as special assistant to the President for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia; Ambassador to Georgia, Kazakhstan, and the U.S.-Soviet commission that implemented the Threshold Test Ban Treaty; and deputy U.S. negotiator in the U.S.-Soviet Defense and Space Talks in Geneva.

Christopher Paul, Ph.D. is a Senior Social Scientist working out of RAND's Pittsburgh office, where is the principal investigator for a number of defense and security related research projects. He also teaches at Carnegie Mellon University and in the Pardee RAND Graduate School. Prior to joining RAND full-time in July of 2002, he worked at RAND as adjunct staff for six years. His current and recent research efforts include analyses supporting security cooperation, information operations, counterinsurgency, irregular/unconventional warfare, and operations in cyberspace.

About the speaker:

Gabriel Scheinmann is currently the Executive Director of The Alexander Hamilton Society, an honors graduate of Harvard University and is completing his Ph.D. at Georgetown University. He was previously a research analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a policy director at the Jewish Policy Center where he co-edited a journal of international affairs, and a widely published author on foreign policy and U.S national security.

About the lecture:

This discussion will involve Mr. Scheinmann's thoughts on educating today's students about international relations and the value that the Hamilton Society is bringing in this area.

Vangala Ram is a Career Member of the U.S. Senior Foreign Service (SFS), based now at the National Intelligence University, on Senior Detail from the State Department. He is a full-time faculty member of the Department of Transnational Issues at NIU. At NIU, Mr. Ram teaches a wide variety of graduate courses to students from across the intelligence community, including advanced intelligence analysis, globalization, the national-security decision-making process, Russia Seminar, Eurasia Seminar, Intelligence Issues in Europe and Engaging International Partners, among other graduate courses.

Mr. Ram has been in the U.S Foreign Service for around 25 years, serving in a wide variety of positions around the world. He was the director of Regional Security and Arms Transfers (RSAT) in the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs in Washington DC and has served as Press Attaché in both Riyadh and Amman. Mr. Ram was the director of the Amerika Haus in Cologne, Germany and has served as the Deputy Chief of Mission (DCM) in The Gambia. He was the Senior Civilian Representative (SCR) to Regional Command West (RC-West) in Herat, Afghanistan. Previous postings include deputy cultural attaché in Moscow and management officer in St. Petersburg, Russia. Mr. Ram did his consular rotation in Seoul, South Korea. He has had nine previous overseas tours in the Foreign Service.

Prior to the U.S. Foreign Service, Mr. Ram was a Military Intelligence (MI) officer in the United States Army. His tours included an airborne assignment at the First Special Operations Command, (Fourth Psychological Operations Group), Fort Bragg, NC as well as two tours in Germany and one at Fort Meade, MD. Mr. Ram Holds a BA from Bard College and Master's degrees from Boston University in International Relations (With Distinction) and from the National Defense University, Eisenhower School in National Security Resource Strategy (Distinguished Graduate).

Dr. Yuri Maltsev is a Professor of Economics at Carthage College.

He earned his B.A. and M.A. degrees at Moscow State University, and his Ph.D. in Labor Economics at the Institute of Labor Research in Moscow, Russia. Before defecting to the United States in 1989, he was a member of a senior Soviet economics team that worked on President Gorbachev's reforms package of perestroika. Prior to joining Carthage, Prof. Maltsev was a Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C., a federal research agency. His work involved briefing members of Congress and senior officials at the executive branch on issues of national security and foreign economic assessment.

Prof. Maltsev has also appeared on CNN, Financial Network News, PBS Newshour, C-Span, Fox News, CBC, and other American, Canadian, and European television and radio programs. He has lectured at leading universities, corporations, banks, colleges, churches, schools, and community centers all over the world. He has authored five books and hundreds of articles in U.S. and foreign publications.

He joined the Carthage faculty in 1991.

Immigration, National Security, and Foreign Policy

with

Matthew J. O'Brien

Director of Research, Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR)

Candidate in IWP's Executive Master of Arts in National Security Affairs Program

October 20, 2016

The Institute of World Politics

This event was part of IWP's Student Speaker Series.

Matthew J. O'Brien joined FAIR in 2016, and is responsible for managing FAIR's research activities. He also writes content for FAIR's website and publications. Over the past twenty years, he has held a wide variety of positions focusing on immigration issues, both in government and in the private sector. Immediately prior to joining FAIR, Matt served as the Chief of the National Security Division (NSD) within the Fraud Detection and National Security Directorate (FDNS) at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), where he was responsible for formulating and implementing procedures to protect the legal immigration system from terrorists, foreign intelligence operatives, and other national security threats. He has also held positions as the Chief of the FDNS Policy and Program Development Unit, as the Chief of the FDNS EB-5 Division, as Assistant Chief Counsel with U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement, as a Senior Advisor to the Citizenship and Immigration Services Ombudsman, and as a District Adjudications Officer with the legacy Immigration & Naturalization Service. In addition, Matt has extensive experience as a private bar attorney. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in French from the Johns Hopkins University and a Juris Doctor from the University of Maine School of Law.

About the lecture: Andrew McCarthy gave an overview of terrorism law and an explanation for why neither the criminal justice system nor the military system is a good fit against international terrorism.

About the speaker: Andrew C. McCarthy III is a former assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York. He led the 1995 terrorism prosecution against Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman and eleven others. The defendants were convicted of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and of planning a series of attacks against New York City landmarks. He also contributed to the prosecutions of terrorists who bombed U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. He resigned from the Justice Department in 2003. He is a contributing editor of National Review and a senior fellow at the National Review Institute.

This event took place on October 17, 2016 at The Institute of World Politics.

Enterprise Readiness: How to Defend Against Cyber Attacks Holistically

with

Admiral Patrick Walsh

Senior Vice President, iSIGHT Partners

John Felker

Director, National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center, US Department of Homeland Security

Don DeBolt

Senior Technical Director, FireEye Inc.

Thursday, October 13

11:30 AM-1:30 PM

The Institute of World Politics

1521 16th Street NW, Washington, D.C.

This event was sponsored by IWP's Cyber Intelligence Initiative as part of a series of guest lectures titled "New Initiatives in Cyber."

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A popular refrain in today's cybersecurity discourse is the call for more collaboration, coordination, and information sharing between the public and private sectors to address the growing number state and non-state actors in the cyber domain.

This panel takes the current national dialogue to the next level of analysis and posits that there are national security lessons learned, insights, approaches, and experiences in this changing threat landscape that could inform the preparedness or "readiness" of technical teams, business units, staff functions, and enterprise leadership in the private sector.

This session suggests "The Enterprise Readiness Model" as a way to develop solutions for our frontline cyber teams who are in a daily fight for survival and need answers that reflect "the best the country has to offer."

About the book: Guy Burgess was the most important, complex and fascinating of 'The Cambridge Spies' - Maclean, Philby, Blunt - all brilliant young men recruited in the 1930s to betray their country to the Soviet Union. An engaging and charming companion to many, an unappealing, utterly ruthless manipulator to others, Burgess rose through academia, the BBC, the Foreign Office, MI5 and MI6, gaining access to thousands of highly sensitive secret documents which he passed to his Russian handlers.

About the author: Andrew Lownie was born in Kenya, brought up in Bermuda and educated in Asheville, North Carolina before attending the universities of Cambridge and Edinburgh. A former journalist for The London Times and the British representative for the Washington-based National Intelligence Centre, he helped set up the Spy Museum in Washington. Now a successful literary agent and the President of The Biographers Club , his books include an acclaimed life of the writer and former Governor General of Canada John Buchan.

This book lecture took place at The Institute of World Politics on October 11, 2016.