John Lenczowski

The Institute of World Politics 3215 Rittenhouse Street, NW

1521 16th Street, NW Washington, D.C.20015

Washington, D.C.20036 (202) 237-6951

(202) 462-2101

Education

  • Ph.D. in International Relations

JohnsHopkinsUniversitySchool of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), 1980.

  • M.A. in International Relations

Johns Hopkins University SAIS, 1975.

  • B.A. with Honors and Distinction, Double major: History and International Relations

University of California, Berkeley, 1972

  • High School diploma

The ThacherSchool, Ojai, California

Current Position

Founder, President, and Professor, The Institute of World Politics, since 1990

The Institute, founded in 1990, is an independent graduate school of national security and international affairs, accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education. It offers: two Master’s degrees, one in Statecraft and World Politics, and another in Statecraft and National Security Affairs; and seven Graduate Certificate Programs. Its mission is to develop leaders with a sound understanding of international realities and the ethical conduct of statecraft, based on knowledge and appreciation of the principles of the American political economy and the Western moral tradition.Courses taught:

  • International Relations, Statecraft, and Integrated Strategy
  • Russian Politics and Foreign Policy

Past Employment

1. Adjunct Professor, National Security Studies

GeorgetownUniversity, WalshSchool of Foreign Service, Washington, D.C., 1985-2000.

2. Consultant to the Bureau of Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs

U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C., 1988-1993.

  • Soviet/Russian human rights policy
  • Refugee and immigration policy
  • Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) affairs

3. Senior Fellow

Council for Inter-American Security, Washington, D.C., March 1988-November 1991.

4. Adjunct Scholar

International Freedom Foundation, Washington, D.C., 1989-1991.

5. Senior Fellowship in Soviet Studies

Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington, D.C., April-November 1987.

6. Director of European and Soviet Affairs

National Security Council (The White House), February 1983-March 1987.

  • Principal White House Advisor on Soviet affairs to President Ronald Reagan and four National Security Advisors.
  • Responsible for development and coordination of U.S. policy toward the Soviet Union.
  • Responsible for development of policy on public diplomacy toward the Soviet Union.
  • Responsible for developing U.S. policy in global public diplomacy, the international battle of ideas, political action, and international communications.
  • Responsible for public information and education about U.S. policy toward the USSR.
  • Delivered an average of sixty speeches per year from White House platforms.
  • Responsible for development and coordination of U.S. policy on international broadcasting.

7. Special Advisor for Political Affairs to the Under Secretary for Political Affairs

U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C., 1982-1983.

  • Responsible for developing and coordinating U.S. policy on public diplomacy, with special emphasis on political competition with the USSR and countering Soviet "active measures," disinformation, and propaganda campaigns.
  • Responsible for handling U.S. policy on international broadcasting. Initiated major modernization program for Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
  • Responsible for developing new institutional capabilities for conducting political action.
  • Initiated the establishment of the State Department Office of Public Diplomacy.
  • Co-authored establishment of the National Endowment for Democracy and its subsidiary organizations.

8. Special Assistant for Policy to the Assistant Secretary for European Affairs

U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C., 1981-1982.

  • Responsible for developing policy on issues which overlap different offices within the bureau and other bureaus and agencies: e.g., Soviet policies in the Third World, working with NATO allies on other regions of common interest, and broader East-West, West-West and North-South issues.
  • Responsible for developing policy on questions of ideology and public diplomacy in Europe: e.g., "peace" movements and Soviet propaganda in Europe, international youth politics, etc.
  • Responsible for handling relations with transnational political movements: e.g., Socialist International.

9. Legislative Policy Advisor to the Honorable James A. Courter

U.S. House of Representatives, 1979-1981.

  • Drafted comprehensive legislation on American public diplomacy and foreign information programs, concerning U.S. Information Agency (including Voice of America), Board for International Broadcasting, and public diplomacy by U.S. armed forces.
  • Drafted legislation on capital gains taxation and Social Security taxation.
  • Wrote articles, speeches and committee testimony.

10. Part-time Foreign Policy Consultant to Members of Congress, political candidates, and

private industry, 1977-1981.

11. Lecturer in Government and Politics

University of Maryland, full-time 1978-1979, part-time 1979-1982. Courses taught:

  • Soviet Foreign Policy
  • American Foreign Policy
  • International Relations
  • Soviet Government
  • American Government

12. Researcher-Editor-Author

American Enterprise Institute, Washington, D.C., 1972-1978.

Honors

  • Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters, St. ThomasUniversity, Miami, Florida, 1984.
  • Outstanding Young Man of America, 1983, U.S. Jaycees.

Languages

  • French – fluent
  • Russian -- working knowledge
  • Polish -- reading knowledge
  • Latin -- reading knowledge

Books and Monographs

1. Cultural Diplomacy, Political Influence, and Integrated Strategy (Washington, D.C. The

Institute of World Politics Press, 2007)

2.Cultural Diplomacy: A Multi-Faceted Instrument of Soviet Foreign Policy

(Washington, D.C.: The Institute of World Politics Press, 1991)

3.The Sources of Soviet Perestroika

(Ashland, OH: Ashbrook Center, Ashland University., 1990).

4. Soviet Perceptions of U.S. Foreign Policy

(Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1982).

5. Arms in the Indian Ocean: Interests and Challenges

(Washington, D.C.: American Enterprise Institute, 1977), (co-author with Dale R. Tahtinen).

Special Projects

Producer/Writer

  • Communism: The Long March,

Radio/Educational Audio Series, Radio America, 1989-1990 (Narrator: Eugene Pell,

President, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty).

Conference Architecture

  • Pillars of Statesmanship: Principles of National Security Policy for the New Presidency

Summer 2000, The Institute of World Politics

  • Globalization: Prospects for Peace, Prosperity and World Order

May 9-10, 2002, Cantigny Conference Series, McCormick Tribune Foundation, Wheaton,

Illinois

  • Intelligence Requirements for the 21st Century:

Conferences in Honor of William J. Casey

The Institute of World Politics, Washington, D.C.

  1. Consolidating Recent Gains, Achieving New Momentum

July 24, 2002

  1. Warning, Counterintelligence, and Intelligence for Counter-terrorism

October 29, 2002

  1. Understanding the Enemy: Will Defense Intelligence Be Strategically Relevant?

May 13, 2003

Counterintelligence: Reform for a Critical National Capability

October 1-3, 2003, Cantigny Conference Series, McCormick Tribune Foundation,

Wheaton, Illinois

Selected Articles

1. "Tax-Cut Theory: Wonder Drug for the Economy?" Saturday Review, January 6, 1979.

2. "Naval Race or Arms Control in the Indian Ocean," Middle East Journal, Fall 1979.

3. "Moral Leadership: The Foundation of Policy," in Wayne Valis, The Future Under President

Reagan (New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, 1981).

4. "A Foreign Policy for Reaganauts," Policy Review, Fall 1981.

5. "Soviet Strategic Deception," in Disinformation and the News (Washington, D.C.: Heritage

Foundation, 1985).

6. "International Communism and Nicaragua: An Administration View," Christian Science

Monitor, June 6, 1985.

7. "The Soviet Price for Peace and Quiet," Washington Times, October 15, 1987.

8. "Themes of Soviet Strategic Deception and Disinformation," in Brian Dailey and Patrick

Parker (eds.), Soviet Strategic Deception (Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1987).

9. "U.S. Foreign Policy in the Age of Gorbachev: A Time to Tell the Truth," The World & I, June

1988.

10. "What Ever Happened to the Evil Empire? Moral Distinctions in the Age of Glasnost,"

Crisis, October 1988.

11. "Soviet Propaganda and Active Measures: 1988," Disinformation: Soviet Active Measures

and Disinformation Forecast, Winter 1988.

12. "The Soviet Union and the United States: Myths, Realities, Maxims," Global Affairs,

Winter 1988-1989.

13. "Perestroika, Soviet Foreign Policy, and the Western Hemisphere" in Perestroika and Latin

America, Proceedings of the Inter-American Forum (Bogota, Colombia: Simon Bolivar

Foundation, 1989).

14. "A Dash of Skepticism Wouldn't Hurt," Los Angeles Times (nationally syndicated),

January 11, 1990.

15. "Military Glasnost' and Strategic Deception," International Freedom Review, Winter 1990.

16. "Soviet Mideast interests aren't America's," The Cleveland Plain Dealer, October 4, 1990.

17. "Did We See Change That Wasn't There?" Los Angeles Times (nationally syndicated),

December 26, 1990.

18. "...While the KGB Officers Promise More to Come," Wall Street Journal Europe, January 7,

1991.

19. "Was the Coup Everything It Seemed to Be?" Los Angeles Times (nationally syndicated),

August 22, 1991.

20. "Communists Hold Key Jobs in `New' Russia," The San Diego Union, September 15, 1991.

21. "Prospects for a New Russian Imperialism and Implications for the United States,"

Congressional Record, September 28, 1993.

22. "In Memory of Adda B. Bozeman," National Security Studies Quarterly, Summer 1995.

23. "The Disease of Moral Relativism," Washington Times, August 18, 1997.

24. "Failures of U.S. Intelligence: Americans Must Become Better Spies," European Affairs,

Fall 2001 (co-author).

25. “Arms control tug on our China posture,” Washington Times, February 13, 2002.

Selected Addresses and Lectures

1. “As the Soviets See the US,” Lakeside Talk, Bohemian Grove, July 1983.

2. "Propaganda and Psychological Operations as Instruments of Soviet Strategy," Lecture to the

AirForceSpecialOperationsSchool, September 1983.

3. "The East-West Conflict: the Moral Dimension," Address to the Fall Convocation,

St. ThomasUniversity, October 1984.

4. "The Meaning of the Story of Raoul Wallenberg," Address to White House Ceremony in

Commemoration of the 40th Anniversary of Wallenberg's Arrest, January 1985.

5. "External Oppression and Inner Freedom in the Soviet Bloc," Lecture to the Philadelphia

Society, April 1986.

6. "Soviet Strategic Deception, Glasnost', and U.S. Policy," Lecture to the Kennan Institute for

Advanced Russian Studies, WoodrowWilsonCenter, Smithsonian Institution, April 1987.

7. "The Metaphysical Dimension of the U.S.-Soviet Conflict," Address to the Synod of the

Anglican Church of North America, May 1987.

8. "America's National Interest Abroad: An Economic and National Security Perspective,"

Lecture at DukeUniversity, March 1991.

9. "The Defense of Western Civilization in the Post-Cold War World," Address to the American-

Swiss Foundation, June 1993.

10. "Reform in Russia and U.S. Policy," Foreign Affairs Interdepartmental Seminar sponsored by

the Foreign Service Institute and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, May 11, 1995.

11. "The Impact of Values on the Long-Term Defense of American Civilization," Address to the

Association Chief Executive Council, November 15, 1995.

12. "The Treason of the Intellectuals: Higher Education, the Culture War and the Threat to U.S.

National Security," Address to the Council for National Policy, March 1996.

13. "Ingredients of Strategic Blindness," Lecture at the Heritage Foundation, April 30, 1996.

14. "The Elemental Problems with Arms Control," Address at the Heritage Foundation's National

Security Symposium, March 20, 1997.

15. "The National Security Bureaucracy and Strategy," Lecture at the Marine Corps Command

and StaffCollege, October 15, 1998 and 2001.

16. "The Power of Rhetoric and the Collapse of the Soviet Empire," Lecture at the George Bush

School of Government and Public Service, TexasA&MUniversity, January 28, 1999.

17. “Public Diplomacy and the Lessons of the Soviet Collapse,” Lakeside Talk, Bohemian

Grove,

California, July 15, 2002.

18. “Philosophical, Political and Economic Principles for Prosperity,” Address to the Party

Congress of the Croatia Democratic Union, Varazdin, Croatia, October 2002.

19. “Intelligence Failures and U.S. National Security,” Address to the Palm Beach Pundits,

January 27, 2003.

20. “Cold War Political Influence Operations and Their Lessons for U.S. Policy,” Lecture to the

Smith Richardson Foundation Roundtable in WashingtonD.C., February 26, 2003.

21. “Conceptual and Structural Weaknesses in U.S. National Security Posture,” Lecture at the

Leadership Institute, March 2003.

22. “Statecraft and U.S. National Security,” Lecture at the University of Dallas, April 11, 2003.

23. “Ronald Reagan’s Role in the Collapse of the USSR,” Conference on the Legacy of Ronald

Reagan in the New Europe, Warsaw, Poland, July 2003.

24. “The Role of Counterintelligence in Defense against Propaganda, Deception, and Political

Influence Operations,” Cantigny Conference Series, Wheaton, Illinois, October 2, 2003.

25. “Public Diplomacy as a Strategic Instrument,” Remarks to the New Atlantic Initiative,

American Enterprise Institute, June 8, 2004.

26. “Intelligence and the Other Arts of Statecraft,” Address to the Annual Conference of The

Association of Former Intelligence Officers, October 30, 2004.

27. “The Role of the Department of State in U.S. Grand Strategy.” Lecture to the Marine Corps

University Command and StaffCollege, October 28, 2004.

28. “The Culture War: A Mutation of the Cold War.” Keynote Address to the Conference of the

Cardinal Mindszenty Foundation, Dallas, TX, February 19, 2005.

29. “Public Diplomacy and U.S. Global Political Influence.” Testimony before the U.S. Public

Diplomacy Advisory Commission, April 13, 2005.

30. “Moral Dimensions of U.S. Foreign Policy in the 21st Century,” Address to the Community

of Pastors, Woods Memorial Presbyterian Church, Severna Park, MD, October 3, 2005.

31. “U.S. Grand Strategy: 1975-1991,” Cantigny Conference Series, October 12, 2005.

32. “Weaknesses in the U.S. National Security Posture: Who is at Fault?” Address to Clemson

University, March 27, 2006.

33. “U.S. National Security Challenges,” The Economic Club of Florida, October 5, 2006

Selected Memberships

  • Board of Directors, AFIO (Association For Intelligence Officers, previously Association of Former Intelligence Officers), since 2005
  • DACOR-Bacon House and DACOR (Diplomatic and Consular Officers Retired), since 1982
  • Bohemian Club, San Francisco, since 1980
  • Sovereign Military Order of Malta, Federal Association, since 1999

Personal

  • Husband of Susan K. Lenczowski
  • Father of Katherine Y. Lenczowski (20) and Christian G. Lenczowski (17)
  • Avocations: family activities, piano, reading, tennis, swimming, hiking

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