Peter L. Bergen, Professor of Practice, Director of the Intelligence Community Center for Academic Excellence at ASU, Vice President and Director of Future Security at New America, award winning journalist and author of multiple best-selling books including The Cost of Chaos: The Trump Administration and the World and The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden.

The Future of War Today podcast capitalizes on the extraordinary network of scholars and practitioners associated with ASU's Center on the Future of War to explore contemporary ideas about conflict and 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