ASU Events
India’s Future in Crisis? Kashmir, Assam, and the Fate of Democracy
October 02, 2019 | ASUKashmir 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.”
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Making Sense of Syria's Proxy War
October 24, 2019 | ASUIn 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…
Preventative War and Proxy Conflict: Lessons from the Counter ISIS Campaign, David Sterman
November 21, 2019 | ASUIn 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…
Coming Home: Dialogues on the Moral, Psychological, and Spiritual Impacts of War
December 10, 2019 | Washington, DCHalf-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…
Coming Home: Dialogues on the Moral, Psychological, and Spiritual Impacts of War
December 10, 2019 | ASUThis 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…
Candace Rondeaux "Beyond the Dark Side: the International Criminal Court’s Investigation into War Crimes by All Sides in Afghanistan"
January 30, 2018 | ASUProfessor 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…
Lt. Gen. (ret) Robert Schmidle "What is the Future of War?"
March 22, 2018 | Memorial UnionProfessor 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…
Anand Gopal "Manbij: Understanding the Syrian Civil War from the Experience of a Single Town"
March 27, 2018 | Memorial UnionPima 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,…
Joshua Geltzer "Never Alone: ISIS and the End of Lone-Wolf Terrorism"
April 03, 2018 | West HallWest 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…