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The Intelligence Studies Project announces the fourth annual competition recognizing outstanding student research and writing on topics related to intelligence and national security. The deadline for submitting papers is June 30, 2018. 

Commenting in the Washington Times on the administration’s announcement that Gina Haspel would be nominated to replace Mike Pompeo as CIA Director, ISP Director Steve Slick said “the nomination of Gina Haspel to replace Pompeo as director is historic on at least two counts.

ISP Post-Doctoral Research Fellow Dr. Kiril Avramov’s  seminar course, “REE 335: Information Wars: Contemporary Political Warfare and Propaganda,” will address political warfare in the contemporary global context, with a focus on Russia and Eastern Europe.

ISP Post-Doctoral Research Fellow Dr. Kiril Avramov visited George Washington University on April 4, 2018 to provide public remarks on “Contemporary Russian Dissemination Campaigns in Eastern Europe: Peculiarities and Key Themes,” for GWU’s Elliot School of International Affairs. 

The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab (APL) is accepting applications for the 2018 Internship Program until March 31, 2018. Information on the full program is available here. 

ISP Post-Doctoral Research Fellow Kiril Avramov’s article Orthodox Fury: Not-So-Subtle Politics of Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus’ was recently published in The Globe Post. 

The University of Warwick’s Secret Struggle for the Global South is now accepting submissions on the topic “Espionage, Covert Action and State Security in the ‘Third World’ during the Cold War – A Comparative Perspective.” 

ISP Senior Fellow and LBJ Clinical Professor Paul Pope was recently interviewed by UT-Austin’s Abhishek Mukund for the Page One podcast. 

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ISP Post-Doctoral Research Fellow Dr. Kiril Avramov recently published Gifts from Grozny: The Export of the Russian COIN Model to Syria in Small Wars Journal.