The Future of Proxy Warfare Initiative is a joint project of New America’s International Security program and Arizona State University’s Center on the Future of War.

This project seeks to develop creative ways to regulate autonomous weapons that are likely to impact international security and transform war and conflict in ways that we can only now imagine. The premise of the research is that since the development and deployment of these technologies is still at an early stage, there are significant opportunities for open debate, experimentation, as well as the design and implementation of multi-party commitments and innovative regulatory structures.

Since 2010, ASU and New America have been working together on various aspects of the use of military and civilian drones around the world. This work began with a 2011 conference that led to an edited volume, Drone Wars: Transforming Conflict, Law, and Policy as well as a number of policy presentations, panel discussions and lectures in DC and at ASU. This research includes three widely cited on-line databases on U.S.

The Center on the Future of War develops and supports interdisciplinary research linking core Center faculty, affiliated faculty, members of the New America team and scholars and practitioners from other universities, civil society groups and various organizations.

Current research projects include the following:

Proxy War

Center affiliated faculty and members of the New America team are actively engaged in publishing books with both academic and trade presses, articles in academic journals, policy and national security magazines, and on-line journals, and a variety of reports and white papers. Many of these publications are the direct result of the ASU Future of War Fellows program, other New America Fellowships, and Center-related research projects.

Some selected recent books, articles and book chapters, and reports from Center affiliated faculty and New America team members include: