ASU Events


Anne-Marie Slaughter: "Webcraft in the Balkans: Building Resilience and Stabilization Networks"

January 30, 2019 | ASU

Anne-Marie Slaughter is the president and CEO of New America, a think and action tank dedicated to renewing America in the Digital Age. She is also the Bert G. Kerstetter ‘66 University Professor Emerita of Politics and International Affairs…

Iona Craig “Reporting from Yemen, the World’s Worst Humanitarian Crisis”

February 21, 2019 | Memorial Union

Craig is a journalist based in Yemen from 2010 to 2015 and an ASU Future of War Fellow at New America. For her work as a correspondent for The Times (of London) based in Saan’a, she received the 2016 Orwell Prize for journalism,…

Jonathan M. Katz “Who was Smedley Butler? Understanding the Rise (and Fall?) of American Empire”

March 14, 2019 | Memorial Union

Pima Room (Rm 230) Memorial Union, Tempe Campus

Katz is an ASU Future of War Fellow at New America, a journalist and author of The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a 

Jill Filipovic “Abortion Wars: Sexual Violence, Reproductive Rights, and U.S. Foreign Policy in Conflict and Crisis Zones”

March 28, 2019 | Memorial Union

Pima Room (Rm 230) Memorial Union, Tempe Campus

Filipovic is an ASU Future of War Fellow at New America, a weekly columnist for CNN and a contributing opinion writer to the New York Times. She writes about abortion…

Col. Dennis Wille “Operational Art – Bringing National Strategy to Life”

April 04, 2019 | Memorial Union

Pima Room (Rm 230) Memorial Union, Tempe Campus

Col. Wille is an U.S. Army Fellow at New America and has been an active duty member of the military for more than 23 years with multiple deployments to Bosnia, Kuwait, Iraq, and…

North Korea, Nuclear Weapons, and Human Rights

April 11, 2019 | La Paz, Memorial Union

Ambassador Robert R. King is a senior advisor (non-resident) at CSIS. He served as special envoy for North Korea human rights issues at the U.S. Department of State. He was nominated by President Barack Obama, confirmed by the U.S. Senate, and…

Sarah Holewinski “Protecting Civilians in Warfare: Personal Reflections from a Decade of Post-9/11 Policy Efforts”

April 18, 2019 | Memorial Union

Pima Room (Rm 230) Memorial Union, Tempe Campus

Holewinski is a professor of practice in the Center on the Future of War, School of Politics and Global Studies. She served as deputy chief of staff for policy at the U.S. Mission…

Global Special Operations Policy Forum 2019

September 18, 2019 | Washington, DC

Day-long conference in September 2019 at New America in Washington, DC to discuss current and future challenges for U.S. Special Operations. Speakers included: Adm. William McRaven, Former Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command; Roya Rahmani…

Special Operations Policy Forum 2019

September 18, 2019 | Washington, DC

New America, the Center on the Future of War and McCain Institute of Arizona State University (ASU), the Global SOF Foundation, and the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College are pleased to extend to you an invitation to attend…