Westminster College Security Studies

10/16/2019

Tomorrow at 11AM

Counterterrorism and national security expert James E. Baker will speak at 11 a.m. Thursday in the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Aldermanbury on Westminster College's campus.

10/03/2019

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National Security Law Today is a weekly podcast from the Standing Committee on Law and National Security

09/29/2019

A constant of Chinese history is that regimes begin to disintegrate along the periphery.

09/24/2019

Speaking at an event in Washington, William McRaven, a SEAL who oversaw the bin Laden raid, said the US was approaching a "Sputnik moment" with China.

09/21/2019

"Stripping a prisoner of his dignity merely reinforced his determination not to speak. The aim should instead be to get into his mind and heart – to achieve 'intellectual and spiritual rapport'."

Expert interrogators know torture doesn’t work – but nobody could prove it. By analyzing hundreds of top-secret interviews with terror suspects, two British scientists have revolutionized the art of extracting the truth.

09/17/2019

What the chaos aboard Flight 93 on 9/11 looked like to the White House, to the fighter pilots prepared to ram the cockpit and to the passengers.

09/11/2019

President Trump announced he had fired national security adviser John Bolton in a pair of tweets on Tuesday, ousting the high-profile officials just days after he canceled a planned meeting with Taliban representatives at Camp David.

08/29/2019

Security cooperation may be the one thing the U.K. and the European Union can agree on.

08/29/2019

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08/27/2019

A slate of recent setbacks to some of President Trump’s key foreign policy goals is threatening to muddy his reelection message.

08/26/2019

USFSIP consists of participation for two consecutive summers. In the first summer (2020), participants come to Washington, D.C. for three weeks of training including: U.S. diplomatic history, Department writing, and professional development. Following the training, interns work for seven weeks on policy desks in regional or functional bureaus at State. The second summer (2021) is a ten week assignment to a U.S. embassy overseas. In the intervening year, USFSIP interns must maintain at least a 3.2 GPA and take the Foreign Service Officer Test (FSOT) to gain a better understanding of the Foreign Service assessment process.