ASU Events


Weaponized Narratives: Civilizational Conflict and the Russian-Ukrainian War

April 25, 2017 | Coor Hall

Featuring Braden Allenby - President’s Professor, Lincoln Professor of Engineering and Ethics, and Professor of Civil, Environmental and Sustainable Engineering, and of Law; Mark von Hagen - Professor,…

Senators Working On Updating Authorization Of Military Force

July 05, 2017 | ASU

The U.S. sent troops into Afghanistan following the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and a Congressional Authorization for Use of Military Force, or AUMF, was put into effect. But there are questions about whether that AUMF can or should apply to the…

War Comes Home: How Post-9/11 Conflicts Have Transformed US Policing

October 12, 2017 | Pima Room, Memorial Union

By Rosa Brooks. Brooks is an ASU Future of War Senior Fellow at New American, professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, and author of How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything.

Peter L. Bergen - "The Future of Terrorism"

October 30, 2017 | Coor Hall

Bergen is Vice President at New America, Professor of Practice in the School of Politics and Global Studies, Co-Director of the Center on the Future of War, and the author of many bestselling books.

Event is cosponsored with the Center…

Anand Gopal - "Witnessing the Fall of ISIS: Reflections on Iraq and Syria"

November 02, 2017 | West Hall

Gopal is an Assistant Research professor in the School of Politics and Global Studies, a Senior Fellow at the Center on the Future of War, one of the country's top war correspondents, and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for his book 

Moral Injury: Toward an International Perspective

November 13, 2017 | Washington, DC

Workshop in November 2017 at New America in Washington, D.C. on moral injury linking the Center with colleagues from the PLuS Alliance, opened by Michael Crow, ASU President. Participants included: Brad Allenby, ASU; David Wood, Pulitzer Prize…

Global Special Operations Policy Forum 2017

November 14, 2017 | Washington, DC

Day-long Conference in November 2017 at New America in Washington, DC on to discuss current and future challenges for U.S. Special Operations, with a focus on the projected growth of proxy wars. Speakers included: Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-Texas);…

Special Operations Policy Forum 2017

November 15, 2017 | Washington, DC

The Special Operations Policy Forum  is a joint effort of the Global SOF Foundation, New America, the University of Texas, and Arizona State University. This half-day…

Douglas A. Ollivant, “Why ISIS Will Lose and the Future of Iraq”

January 28, 2016 | West Hall

West Hall 135, ASU, Tempe Campus