2015
2015
Thomas Ricks, “Why Don’t We Win Our Wars Anymore? Some Answers to the Question that the U.S. Military Doesn’t Want to Address"
February 3, 2015 | 12:00am
Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ
Douglas Ollivant, “Will ISIS Win and If So, For How Long?”
March 3, 2015 | 12:00am
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
Shane Harris, “The Myths and Realities of Cyber Conflict”
March 17, 2015 | 12:00am
Changing Hands Bookstore, Phoenix, AZ
Daniel Rothenberg, “Global Terrorism, Jihadi Movements and the Future of War”
March 26, 2015 | 12:00am
Co-sponsored by the Phoenix Council on Global Affairs, Gainey Ranch Golf Club, Scottsdale, AZ
Rosa Brooks, “How War Became Everything”
April 30, 2015 | 12:00am
Private dinner, Phoenix, AZ
2016
2016
Douglas A. Ollivant, “Why ISIS Will Lose and the Future of Iraq”
January 28, 2016 | 6:30pm
West Hall 135, ASU, Tempe Campus
Rosa Brooks, “How War Became Everything”
February 3, 2016 | 12:00pm
West Hall 135, ASU, Tempe Campus
Thomas E. Ricks, “Why I Fear We Will Lose Our Next Big War”
February 8, 2016 | 7:00pm
2016 Paul J. Schatt Memorial Lecture. First Amendment Forum, Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, 555 N Central Ave, Phoenix
Peter L. Bergen, “United States of Jihad: Investigating America’s Homegrown Terrorists"
February 16, 2016 | 6:30pm
First Amendment Forum, Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, 555 N Central Ave, Phoenix
Scott Silverstone, “Power Shifts and the Enduring Preventive War Dilemma”
March 1, 2016 | 6:30pm
West Hall 135, ASU, Tempe Campus
David Kilcullen, “What the Rise of ISIS Tells Us about the Unraveling of the War on Terrorism
March 31, 2016 | 6:30pm
Memorial Union, Room 230 Pima, ASU Tempe Campus
David Wood, “The Human Dimension of War”
April 7, 2016 | 6:45pm
Cronkite Theatre, Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, 555 N Central Ave, Phoenix
Peter W. Singer, “Ghost Fleet: Why We Need to Imagine World War III”
April 21, 2016 | 6:30pm
Memorial Union, Room 228 Cochise, ASU Tempe Campus
2017
2017
David Wood
January 17, 2017 | 6:30pm
ASU Senior Future of War Fellow, Huffington Post senior military correspondent, 2012 Pulitzer Prize
recipient for National Reporting on moral injury among U.S. veterans of the post-9/11 wars which is
the subject of his new book, What Have We Done: The Moral Injury of Our Longest Wars.
Alumni Lounge (Room 202) Memorial Union, ASU-Tempe
Peter W. Singer
January 31, 2017 | 6:30pm
Strategist and Senior Fellow at New America and is one of the world’s leading experts on 21st century
security issues, the author of multiple books on child soldiers, cyberwar and emerging military
technologies including, most recently, Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War.
This event will be limited in size. Please email futureofwar@asu.edu if you are interested.
Peter L. Bergen
February 16, 2017 | 6:30pm
Vice President at New America, Professor of Practice in the School of Politics and Global Studies at
ASU, Co-Director of the Center on the Future of War and the author of many award-winning and
best-selling books including his latest, United States of Jihad: Investigating America’s Homegrown Terrorists.
Pima (Room 230) Memorial Union, ASU-Tempe
Tom Ricks
February 21, 2017 | 6:30pm
ASU Future of War Senior Fellow at New America and a multiple Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author
of multiple books including the bestseller Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2003-05.
Pima (Room 230) Memorial Union, ASU-Tempe
Douglas A. Ollivant
February 23, 2017 | 6:30pm
ASU Senior Future of War Fellow at New America and retired U.S. Army officer, former Director for
Iraq at the National Security Council for both the Bush and Obama administrations, helped develop
the Baghdad Security Plan, commonly known as “the surge”.
Pima (Room 230) Memorial Union, ASU-Tempe
David Kilcullen
March 2, 2017 | 6:30pm
Senior ASU Future of War Fellow at New America, former Chief Strategist in the State Department’s
Counterterrorism Bureau and Senior Counterinsurgency Advisor to General David Petraeus, author of
multiple best-selling books including, most recently, Blood Year: The Unraveling of Western Counterterrorism.
Pima (Room 230) Memorial Union, ASU-Tempe
Azmat Khan
March 16, 2017 | 6:30pm
ASU Future of War Fellow at New America and award-winning journalist at Frontline, Al Jazeera, and
BuzzFeed’s Investigative Unit currently writing about Syria, Iraq and the crises in the Middle East.
Pima (Room 230) Memorial Union, ASU-Tempe
Scott A. Silverstone
March 30, 2017 | 6:30pm
"The False Promise of Preventive War: What History Can Teach the Trump Administration About Iran and North Korea"
Senior ASU Future of War Fellow at New America, professor of international relations at West Point,
currently writing a book on preventive war.
Pima (Room 230) Memorial Union, ASU-Tempe
2018
2018
Candace Rondeaux, "Beyond the Dark Side: the International Criminal Court’s Investigation into War Crimes by All Sides in Afghanistan"
January 30, 2018 | 6:30pm
Professor of Practice, School of Politics and Global Studies, Senior Fellow, Center on the Future of War, previously Senior Program Officer at the United States Institute of Peace, Afghanistan/Pakistan Bureau Chief for the Washington Post, and member of a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting team.
Lt. Gen. (ret) Robert Schmidle, "What is the Future of War?"
March 22, 2018 | 6:30pm
Pima Room (Rm 230) Memorial Union, Tempe Campus
Professor of Practice, School of Politics and Global Studies, Senior Fellow, Center on the Future of War, previously Deputy Commander of United States Cyber Command, USMC pilot with over 4,600 hours in tactical fighters including combat operations in Iraqi and Bosnia, Ph.D. in philosophy from Georgetown University, member of the Defense Science Board.
Anand Gopal, "Manbij: Understanding the Syrian Civil War from the Experience of a Single Town"
March 27, 2018 | 6:30pm
Pima Room (Rm 230) Memorial Union, Tempe Campus
Assistant Research Professor, Center on the Future of War and Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict, journalist and sociologist with a Ph.D. from Columbia University, author of No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban and the War Through Afghan Eyes which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award, currently researching the conflicts in Iraq and Syria.
Co-Sponsored with the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict
Joshua Geltzer, "Never Alone: ISIS and the End of Lone-Wolf Terrorism"
April 3, 2018 | 6:30pm
West Hall Room 135, Tempe Campus
ASU Future of War Fellow at New America and executive director and visiting professor of law at the Georgetown University Law Center, previously senior director for counterterrorism at the National Security Council, law clerk to Justice Stephen Breyer of the U.S. Supreme Court, editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal, and Marshall Scholar at King’s College London where he earned a Ph.D. in War Studies.
***CANCELED***Azadeh Moaveni, "Women of the Caliphate: Islamism, Rebellion and the Legacy of ISIS"***CANCELED***
April 10, 2018 | 6:30pm
Pima Room (Rm 230) Memorial Union, Tempe Campus
ASU Future of War Fellow at New America, senior lecturer in journalism at Kingston University, London, and author of Lipstick Jihad, Honeymoon in Tehran and Iran Awakening which she co-wrote with Nobel Laureate Shirin Ebadi, previously a correspondent for TIME and the Los Angeles Times focusing in the Middle East.
Co-Sponsored with the Council for Arabic and Islamic Studies
Stephan Haggard, “Hard Target: Sanctions and Engagement with North Korea”
April 16, 2018 | 6:00pm
Room 6761, Coor Hall on the ASU Tempe campus
Prof. Stephan Haggard of the Univ. of California San Diego will present a talk, “Hard Target: Sanctions and Engagement with North Korea” on Monday April 16 from 6:00-7:30pm. This will be an important talk on one of the most pressing global security issues.
Co-sponsored with the School of Politics and Global Studies
2019
2019
Suki Kim, “Undercover in North Korea”
January 24, 2019 | 6:00pm
Gold Room (Rm 207) Memorial Union, Tempe Campus
Kim is an ASU Future of War Fellow at New America, author of New York Times best-seller Without You, There Is No Us: Undercover Among the Sons of North Korean Elite. She is the only writer ever to have lived undercover in North Korea for immersive journalism and has been awarded Guggenheim, Fulbright, and Open Society fellowships. Her TED Talk has drawn millions of viewers and her essay on fear appears in The Best American Essays 2018.
Iona Craig, “Reporting from Yemen, the World’s Worst Humanitarian Crisis”
February 21, 2019 | 6:00pm
Pima Room (Rm 230) Memorial Union, Tempe Campus
Craig is a journalist based in Yemen from 2010 to 2015 and an ASU Future of War Fellow at New America. For her work as a correspondent for The Times (of London) based in Saan’a, she received the 2016 Orwell Prize for journalism, the United Kingdom’s most prestigious honor for political writing as well as the 2014 Martha Gellhorn Prize, Britain’s most significant honor for investigative journalism for her reporting on America’s covert war in Yemen.
Jonathan M. Katz, “Who was Smedley Butler? Understanding the Rise (and Fall?) of American Empire”
March 14, 2019 | 6:30pm
Pima Room (Rm 230) Memorial Union, Tempe Campus
Katz is an ASU Future of War Fellow at New America, a journalist and author of The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster. He is a former Associated Press correspondent who has reported from more than a dozen countries and was awarded the Medill Medal for Courage in Journalism (since renamed for James Foley) for his coverage of the 2010 Haiti earthquake and subsequent cholera epidemic.
Jill Filipovic, “Abortion Wars: Sexual Violence, Reproductive Rights, and U.S. Foreign Policy in Conflict and Crisis Zones”
March 28, 2019 | 6:00pm
Pima Room (Rm 230) Memorial Union, Tempe Campus
Filipovic is an ASU Future of War Fellow at New America, a weekly columnist for CNN and a contributing opinion writer to the New York Times. She writes about abortion access for rape survivors in conflict zones, examining the impacts of local law, abortion stigma, and U.S. foreign policy on reproductive rights. Her work has appeared in the Washington Post, Foreign Policy, TIME, and others. She is the author of The H-Spot: The Feminist Pursuit of Happiness.
Col. Dennis Wille, “Operational Art – Bringing National Strategy to Life”
April 4, 2019 | 6:00pm
Pima Room (Rm 230) Memorial Union, Tempe Campus
Col. Wille is an U.S. Army Fellow at New America and has been an active duty member of the military for more than 23 years with multiple deployments to Bosnia, Kuwait, Iraq, and Afghanistan. In his year-long tour in Afghanistan, he worked at ISAF Joint Command as a military planner where he focused on integrating non-military applications into NATO’s overall plan. He writes on foreign affairs and military strategy.
Sarah Holewinski, “Protecting Civilians in Warfare: Personal Reflections from a Decade of Post-9/11 Policy Efforts”
April 18, 2019 | 6:00pm
Pima Room (Rm 230) Memorial Union, Tempe Campus
Holewinski is a professor of practice in the Center on the Future of War, School of Politics and Global Studies. She served as deputy chief of staff for policy at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations. For nearly a decade prior, she was executive director of Center for Civilians in Conflict (CIVIC), leading efforts to advise warring parties on civilian protection and responsible use of force.
2020
2020
Patricia Evangelista, "Some People Need Killing’: Investigative and Trauma Reporting in the Philippines"
March 2, 2020 | 6:00pm
Pima Room (Rm 230) Memorial Union, Tempe Campus
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 analyze the country’s drug war.
Peter Bergen, "Trump and His Generals: The Cost of Chaos"
March 5, 2020 | 6:00pm
Pima Room (Rm 230) Memorial Union, Tempe Campus
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 School of Politics and Global Studies at ASU, Co-Director of the Center on the Future of War, Vice President for Global Studies and Fellows at New America and a CNN national security analyst.
Suzy Hansen, "The City is Man’s Mirror: Understanding Turkey and the Syrian Refugee Crisis through and Istanbul Neighborhood"
March 18, 2020 | 4:15pm
In-class presentation online via Zoom
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 Prize.
Col. Frank Stanco, "Strategic Planning in an Uncertain World: Engaging National Security in the Western Pacific"
April 1, 2020 | 4:15pm
In-class presentation online via 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 and Afghanistan.
Trevor Aronson, "Terrorism’s Double Standard"
April 8, 2020 | 4:15pm
In-class presentation online via Zoom
Trevor Aaronson is an ASU Future Security Fellow at New America and an investigative journalist for The Intercept, executive director of the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting and author of "The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI’s Manufactured War on Terrorism".
David Rohde, "In Deep: The FBI, the CIA and the Truth about America’s Deep State"
April 22, 2020 | 4:15pm
In-class presentation online via Zoom
David Rohde is an ASU Future Security Fellow at New America, executive editor for news at The New Yorker, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the author of four books, including, "In Deep: The FBI, the CIA and the Truth about America’s Deep State".
2021
2021
Col. (ret) Isaiah Wilson, "The Utility of Special Operations: Facing Challenges of Great Power Competition And Compound Security"
February 3, 2021 | 5:30pm
Online via Zoom
Col. (ret) Isaiah Wilson, President, Joint Special Operations University, decorated combat veteran with tours in Afghanistan and Iraq and author of "Thinking beyond War: Civil-Military Relations and Why America Fails to Win the Peace"
Yi-Ling Liu, "Inside the Walled Garden: Understanding the Chinese Internet"
February 11, 2021 | 5:30pm
Online via Zoom
Yi-Ling Liu, ASU Future Security Fellow at New America, award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Harper’s Magazine, Foreign Policy, The Economist, The New Yorker, and elsewhere.
Theodore R. Johnson, "The Challenge of Black Patriotism"
February 17, 2021 | 5:30pm
Online via Zoom
Theodore R. Johnson, Senior Fellow, Director of the Fellows Program, Brennan Center for Justice, former National Fellow at New America, retired Commander in the United States Navy, author of forthcoming "When the Stars Begin to Fall: Overcoming Racism and Renewing the Promise of America"
Noah Feldman, "When Does Resistance Become Insurrection? Free Speech and the Defense of the Republic"
February 23, 2021 | 5:30pm
Online via Zoom
Noah Feldman, Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, author of multiple books, including "Cool War: The Future of Global Competition" and "Divided By God: America's Church-State Problem and What We Should Do About It".
Pardis Mahdavi and Mi-Ai Parrish, "Transnational Feminist Movements: Reflections on International Women’s Day 2021"
March 8, 2021 | 5:30pm
Online via Zoom
Pardis Mahdavi, Dean of Social Sciences, ASU, author of multiple books including "Crossing the Gulf: Love and Family in Migrant Lives" and Mi-Ai Parrish, Sue Clark-Johnson Professor in Media Innovation and Leadership, ASU and former President and Publisher of USA Today Network Arizona.
Co-sponsored with the ASU Global Human Rights Hub and Zócalo Public Square.
Craig Calhoun, "Renewal and Remaking of Democracy"
March 11, 2021 | 5:30pm
Online via Zoom
Craig Calhoun, ASU University Professor of Social Sciences, former director and president of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), author of many books including the forthcoming "Degenerations of Democracy".
David Scheffer, "Preventing Atrocity Crimes in a Violent World"
March 17, 2021 | 5:30pm
Online via Zoom
David Scheffer, Director Emeritus of the Center for International Human Rights and former Mayer Brown/Robert A. Helman Professor of Law at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and first U.S. Ambassador at Large for War Crimes
Co-sponsored with the ASU Global Human Rights Hub and the Martin-Springer Institute, Northern Arizona University
A book talk with Lauren Redniss
March 25, 2021 | 5:30pm
Online via Zoom
Lauren Redniss is the author of several works of visual non-fiction, including: “Thunder & Lightning: Weather Past, Present, Future,” winner of the 2016 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award and “Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout,” finalist for the National Book Award. She has been a Guggenheim fellow as well as a fellow at the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center for Scholars & Writers.
Co-sponsored with the Center for the Future of Arizona
Jen Daskal, "The Right Way to Censor: Addressing Internet Harm and Improving Security"
April 1, 2021 | 5:30pm
Online via Zoom
Jen Daskal, ASU Future Security Fellow at New America, Professor and Faculty Director of the Tech, Law, Security Program at American University Washington College of Law
Co-sponsored with the ASU Global Human Rights Hub and the Center for Law, Science and Innovation
Driving While Brown: Sheriff Joe Arpaio versus the Latino Resistance Webinar
May 12, 2021 | 5:30pm
Online via Zoom