ASU Events
Blood Year: Terror and the Islamic State
June 15, 2015 | New America 1899 L Street NW, Suite 400 Washington, DC 20036In June 2014, ISIS seized Mosul, the anchor of northern Iraq and home to more than two million. Twelve days before the city fell, President Obama speaking at West Point failed to mention ISIS at all, having earlier dismissed them as a “jayvee…
The Sky Below: A Film Screening
June 15, 2015 | New America 1899 L Street NW, Suite 400 Washington, DC 20036In August 1947, India and Pakistan were partitioned, yet the boundary between Indian and Pakistani culture remained porous and intersecting. In The Sky Below, award winning filmmaker Sarah Singh explores the painful memories and…
Terrorists at the Table
June 24, 2015 | New America 1899 L Street NW, Suite 400 Washington, DC 20036Should governments talk to terrorists? Do they have any choice? In Terrorists at the Table, Jonathan Powell argues that we will never end armed conflict without allowing for negotiation with terrorists. In his book, Mr. Powell draws…
Team of Teams: Lessons from JSOC for a Complex World
July 02, 2015 | New America 1899 L Street NW, Suite 400 Washington, DC 20036When General Stanley McChrystal took command of the Joint Special Operations Task Force in 2003, he quickly realized that conventional tactics were failing. Al Qaeda in Iraq was a decentralized network that could move quickly, strike…
Fallujah Redux: Lessons in Leadership and Engagement from the Fallujah Awakening
July 10, 2015 | New America 1899 L Street NW, Suite 400 Washington, DC 20036During the first four years of the U.S. presence in Iraq, the city of Fallujah remained mired in almost continuous violence. Most famously, it was the site of the two iconic battles by U.S. forces to retake the city from insurgent forces in 2004…
Drones and Aerial Observation: New Technologies for Property Rights, Human Rights, and Global Development
July 22, 2015 | New America, 740 15th St NW #900, Washington, D.C. 20005Clear and secure rights to property—land, natural resources, and other goods and assets—are crucial to human prosperity. Most of the world’s population lack such rights. That lack is in part a consequence of political and social breakdowns, and…
Reporting While Female
July 27, 2015 | New America 1899 L Street NW, Suite 400 Washington, DC 20036Female reporters and authors often face unique challenges when investigating and reporting for their work, especially in repressive regimes. Delphine Schrank, author of The Rebel of Rangoon: A Tale of Defiance and Deliverance in Burma…
Send the Marines, All of the Marines: Women's Leadership in the U.S. Marine Corps
September 10, 2015 | Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass CommunicationOrganized as part of Marine Week and featuring female Marine Corps officers.
Fifteen Years After 9/11 Project: Humanities and the Impact of War on American Civic Life
September 11, 2015 | Institute for Humanities ResearchWith Nancy Dallett, Peter Lehman, Daniel Rothenberg and Mark von Hagen.