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About the lecture In Slovenia, people are mostly unsatisfied with the political situation. Prime minister Dr. Cerar is having less and less support, whereas President Pahor is enjoying support. Also, most people disagree with sending Slovenian troops for NATO purposes to the Baltic states; however, this deployment is a necessity because Slovenia needs to pay its share for NATO protection, and because Russia is a threat to other Eastern, Central, and Southern European states. About the speaker Tibor Babic was born in Maribor, Slovenia, and after graduating high school, he went to Vienna, Austria to study political science. His goal is to work in international relations, which is why he chose to attend The Institute of World Politics for graduate school. His research areas at IWP concentrate on EU and US relations and world order.

This event is part of a series on the Intermarium sponsored by the Kosciuszko Chair of Polish Studies. It took place on March 9th at 4:30 PM. Dr. Marek Jan Chodakiewicz presented the lecture.

Author Michael Walsh discusses the relationship between culture and politics.

Author Michael Walsh discusses the rise of Donald Trump during the 2016 election.

About the Event: This event will focus on the continuing challenges and issues facing the world's newest democracy. Hon. Jehan Mechak Deng will also discuss the aspirations and goals of South Sudan in 2017. About the Speaker: Hon. Jehan Mechak Deng is currently the state minister for Health and Environment, Eastern Nile for the Republic of South Sudan. She is a seasoned diplomat and an advocate of peace through development programs. Including being a member of the founding board of the South Sudan Women Empowerment Network (SSWEN) advocating for empowerment of women through public forums and workshops, educating and deliberating the country's laws through the transitional constitution of the government of the Republic of South Sudan to ensure women's participation and affirmative action in developing the state's ‘Permanent Constitution'.

ABOUT THIS DISCUSSION With immigration likely to be one of the cornerstone issues of Donald Trump's presidency the debate over immigration, particularly in regards to national security, is far from resolved. At this event Mr. O'Brien and Mr. Nowrasteh will debate the many important issues concerning immigration to the U.S. ABOUT THE SPEAKERS Alex Nowrasteh is an immigration policy analyst at the Cato Institute's Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity. His popular publications have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the Washington Post, the Houston Chronicle, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Post, and elsewhere. His academic publications have appeared in the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, the Fletcher Security Review, and Public Choice. He coauthored, with Mark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies, the booklet Open Immigration: Yea and Nay (Encounter Broadsides, 2014). He is a native of Southern California and received a BA in economics from George Mason Universi

Paul D. Miller is the associate director of the Clements Center for National Security at The University of Texas at Austin and an adjunct political scientist at the RAND Corporation. This lecture occurred at The Institute of World Politics on February 15, 2017. Dr. Miller previously held the position of Director for Afghanistan and Pakistan on the National Security Council from 2007 to 2009, worked as an analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency, and served as a military intelligence analyst with the US Army in Afghanistan. He is the author of Armed State Building: Confronting State Failure, 1898-2012.

Dr, Ted Bromund of Heritage Foundation and Dr. Douglas Streusand of the Institute of World Politics discuss alternate policy proposals for U.S. European Policy

This lecture occurred at The Institute of World Politics on February 7, 2017. This lecture was given by Mr. Dan Evans of Storm King Analytics. The excitement about "Big Data" usually focuses on the access to lots of data -- thousands, or millions, of records. "Big Data" sources are certainly valuable in many situations, but we can cite numerous examples where it doesn't produce insights that are useful. Our experience tells us that simply pulling in large amounts of data usually doesn't answer the question at hand. There's a fine art to collecting the appropriate data sets to make effective decisions; it requires a combination of both smarts and wisdom--something we call "Smart Data." Storm King's recent work has focused on network models of Ungoverned Spaces and business intelligence in Frontier and Emerging Markets. Traditional "Big Data" sources tend to be incomplete and inaccurate when it comes to these environments and they don't begin to capture the type of data required to understand the networks of

A former member of the history faculty at West Point, J. P. Clark is an active duty army officer who has served as a strategic advisor to senior civilian and military officials in the Pentagon and British Ministry of Defence.

Bill Gertz is a national security columnist for the Washington Times, and senior editor of the Washington Free Beacon. His column on the Pentagon, Inside the Ring, appears weekly. He currently lives in Annapolis, MD with his wife Debra. Find him online at Gertzfile.com and @BillGertz.

About the lecture: In this lecture, Dr. Tierney reviewed the background and causes of the attack on Pearl Harbor, its defining tactical and strategic features, and its longer term implications for U.S. national security, both within the context of WWII and beyond. About the speaker: Dr. Tierney is a Former Special Assistant and Foreign Affairs Officer, U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (1981-1993). He is a former participant in various national security negotiations for the U.S. Government; a former Executive Director of the Congressional Caucus on National Defense and the National Security Research Group, U.S. House of Representatives; a former Chairman of the Politics Department at Catholic University, and formerly Professor of International Relations, University of Virginia and The Johns Hopkins University. He is currently the Walter Kohler Professor of International Relations at the Institute of World Politics.

Sir Anthony Seldon, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Buckingham, the UK's leading independent university, is the honorary historian for Downing Street. He has written the inside books on the last four Prime Ministers. Today's discussion took place at IWP on the date of the 29th of November. During the lecture, Sir Anthony discussed which of the 54 Prime Ministers has been the grandest, the brightest, the best orator, the tallest, the shortest, the healthiest, the biggest drinker and the biggest Lothario.

There is disagreement between whether the Jews were treated better in royal or private noble towns. Mr. Watson, a Ph.D. candidate in economics at George Mason University, discussed where peace was best fostered, comparing the two types of towns. This lecture was presented as part of the Zdzislaw R. Zakrzewski 9th Annual Kosciuszko Chair Conference, on Nov. 12, 2016. The event was sponsored by the Kosciuszko Chair of Polish Studies.

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 t

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) i

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 b