ASU Events


Strategic Planning in an Uncertain World: Engaging National Security in the Western Pacific, Col. Frank Stanco

April 01, 2020 | Zoom

Colonel Frank Stanco is the chief of staff of the Army Senior Fellow at New America and an officer with over 25 years in active duty, including serving at the strategic, operational and tactical-level in Europe, South Korea, Central America, Iraq…

The City is Man’s Mirror: Understanding Turkey and the Syrian Refugee Crisis through and Istanbul Neighborhood, Suzy Hansen

March 18, 2020 | ASU

Suzy Hansen is an ASU Future Security Fellow at New America, contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and author of Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World, which was a finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer…

Trump and His Generals: The Cost of Chaos, Peter Bergen

March 05, 2020 | ASU

Peter Bergen is the author of six books, three of which were New York Times bestsellers and four of which were named among the non-fiction books of the year by the Washington Post. Bergen is a Professor of Practice at the…

Some People Need Killing: Investigative and Trauma Reporting in the Philippines, Patricia Evangelista

March 02, 2020 | ASU

Patricia Evangelista is an ASU Future Security Fellow at New America and an investigative journalist in the Philippines writing a book titled “We Are Duterte” that uses the stories of killers and survivors to document and…

Coming Home: Dialogues on the Moral, Psychological, and Spiritual Impacts of War

December 10, 2019 | ASU

This half-day event brought together thought leaders engaged with moral injury and the profound impact of the lived experience of war. The event included academics, military leaders, veterans, journalists and clinicians to explore the value of…

Coming Home: Dialogues on the Moral, Psychological, and Spiritual Impacts of War

December 10, 2019 | Washington, DC

Half-day conference in December 2019 at New America in Washington, DC bringing together thought leaders engaged with moral injury and the profound impact of the lived experience of war. Speakers included: David Luban, Georgetown University; Maj…

Preventative War and Proxy Conflict: Lessons from the Counter ISIS Campaign, David Sterman

November 21, 2019 | ASU

 In 2011, the Obama administration withdrew American forces from Iraq, celebrating the withdrawal as the end of the war. Fewer than three years later the same administration returned the U.S. military to Iraq to wage war on ISIS and then…

Making Sense of Syria's Proxy War

October 24, 2019 | ASU

In this talk, Anand Gopal discussed his analysis of several years of fieldwork research as a means of re-theroizing proxy warfare as considered in relation to the Syrian conflict as a proxy war. The presentation was part of the Center on the…

India’s Future in Crisis? Kashmir, Assam, and the Fate of Democracy

October 02, 2019 | ASU

Kashmir valley in India’s northwest, where the majestic Himalaya and Karakorum mountains merge, was once prized by poets and mystics as a heaven on earth. Today, the region has been transformed into what some call “an open prison.”