People
Our team
The Future Security Initiative has two faculty co-directors, Peter Bergen and Daniel Rothenberg, a team of 22 faculty as well as over 25 current and former funded fellows, and an expanding group of research fellows. We work with over 150 affiliated faculty from multiple programs and units at ASU including scholars of political science, history, religious studies, law, engineering, public policy, sustainability, philosophy, international development, security studies, regional studies, and other fields. Additionally, we work with dozens of experts based at New America including journalists, researchers, former government officials, former members of the U.S. military, and specialists in international human rights and global humanitarian assistance.
Peter L. Bergen, Center Co-Director, in Kabul, Afghanistan.
LaDawn Haglund and Rimjhim Aggarwal researching social and economic rights in a Delhi settlement.
David Kilcullen, ASU Future of War Fellow working on counterinsurgency issues at the Tarapaca airstrip, Colombia.
Peter Singer, Strategist and Senior Fellow at New America discusses his book Ghost Fleet at the US Navy Current Strategy Forum.
Daniel Rothenberg training local NGO workers on human rights documentation and analysis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Brad Allenby, Center Affiliated Faculty speaking on civilizational conflict, Chautauqua Institute.
Anne-Marie Slaughter, New America President and CEO.
Douglas Ollivant, ASU Future of War Fellow advising Iraqi security forces on border between Karbala and Anbar provinces.
Yasmin Saikia, Hardt-Nickachos Chair in Peace Studies and Center Affiliated Faculty speaking in Baghdad at a conference sponsored by the Iraqi Ministry of Culture.
Co-directors
Peter L. Bergen
Peter Bergen is Vice President of Global Studies & Fellows and the Director of the Future Security program at New America and Professor of Practice in the School of Politics and Global Studies at Arizona State University.
Daniel Rothenberg
Professor of Practice, Senior Fellow at New America, anthropologist focusing on human rights, genocide and truth commissions, and field-based research, books include Memory of Silence and Drone Wars
Faculty
Anika Binnendijk
Professor of Practice, adjunct political scientist at the RAND Corporation, former staff at the National Security Council and in the Department of State Policy Planning staff
Lt. Col. M.L. Cavanaugh
Professor of Practice, active-duty U.S. Army strategist, co-founder of the Modern War Institute at West Point
Alicia Ellis
Assistant Teaching Professor & Director, MA in Global Security, U.S. Air Force veteran, former Policy Analyst for the U.S. State Department, and Presidential Management Fellow
Amos Fox
Retired US Army officer with multiple combat deployments, host of the podcasts Revolution in Military Affairs and War on the Rocks' Soldier Pulse, and author of Conflict Realism: Understanding the Causal Logic of Modern War and Warfare. He has a PhD in International Relations from the University of Reading.
Ken Gleiman
Professor of Practice, retired U.S. Army colonel with special operations and policy experience and a PhD in security studies
Anand Gopal
Assistant Research Professor, sociologist, journalist, finalist for 2015 and 2022 Pulitzer Prize and 2014 National Book Award
Sarah Holewinski
Professor of Practice, DC Director, Human Rights Watch, former deputy chief of staff in the U.S. Mission to the U.N., expert on civilian protection in war
Thomas Just
Assistant Teaching Professor, political scientist specializing in the use of legal and public diplomacy strategies to counter extremist ideologies and support reconciliation
Azmat Khan
Professor of Practice, Carnegie Fellow, winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize, investigative journalist focusing on conflict focusing on Afghanistan & Iraq
David Kilcullen
Professor of Practice, counter insurgency/terrorism expert former advisor to Gen. David Petraeus, and Sec. of State Condoleezza Rice, author of The Dragons and the Snakes: How the Rest Learned to Fight the West, The Accidental Guerrilla, Counterinsurgency, Out of the Mountains
Jonathan Kinkel
Assistant Teaching Professor, lawyer, and political scientist, former Wisconsin Assistant Attorney General, works on comparative politics, human rights, U.S.-China relations, former NGO director
Jeff Kubiak
Professor of Practice, ASU Director of Future Security Education, retired U.S. Air Force colonel; political scientist specializing in strategy and narrative, former faculty at U.S. Army School of Advanced Military Studies.
Ajit Maan
Professor of Practice, Future Security Initiative, School of Politics and Global Studies, philosopher specializing in the analysis of narrative and strategy, author of Narrative Warfare
Andrew Maher
Professor of Practice, Future Security Initiative and the School of Politics and Global Studies at ASU, a non-resident fellow with the U.S. Joint Special Operations University and the Modern War Institute at West Point.
George Poste
Del E. Webb Professor of Health Innovation and chief scientist with the Complex Adaptive Systems Initiative at ASU, and was a member of the Defense Science Board
Kyle Ramsay
Professor of Practice, Future Security Initiative and the School of Politics and Global Studies at ASU. He served 16 years as an infantry soldier and officer with the Canadian Armed Forces and other government agencies.
Candace Rondeaux
Professor of Practice, formerly of U.S. Institute of Peace, U.S. Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction and Bureau Chief for Afghanistan/Pakistan for The Washington Post
David Scheffer
Professor of Practice, former Ambassador at Large for War Crimes, former Director, Center for International Human Rights, and professor at the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
Lt. Gen. (ret.) Robert Schmidle
Professor of Practice, first Deputy Commander of U.S. Cyber Command, combat fighter pilot with a Ph.D. in philosophy from Georgetown University
Peter W. Singer
Professor of Practice, Senior Strategist at New America, leading expert on 21st century security, author of best-selling books including Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century and LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media
Anne-Marie Slaughter
Distinguished Professor of Practice, CEO of New America, former director of Policy Planning for the United States Department of State and former Dean of Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs
Scott Whittaker
Professor of Practice, Chief Information Security Officer at a high-tech startup
Col. (ret.) Isaiah “Ike” Wilson
Professor of Practice, President, Joint Special Operations University, combat veteran and expert on comparative strategy
Fellows
Trevor Aronson
Investigative journalist for The Intercept, executive director of the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting, author of The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI’s Manufactured War on Terrorism, ASU Future Security Fellow at New America 2019-2020
Greg Barker
Award-winning filmmaker who directed The Final Year, a sweeping insiders’ account of President Barack Obama’s foreign policy team, Legion of Brothers, Sergio (Sundance award-winner), and numerous films for PBS/Frontline, including the acclaimed Ghosts of Rwanda, ASU Future of War Fellow at New America 2017-2018
Philip Bennett
Journalist, former managing editor of the Washington Post, produced over 20 films for PBS Frontline, launched the Local Journalism Initiative, ASU Future Security Fellow 2022-2023.
Rosa Brooks
Professor and former Associate Dean at Georgetown Law, former Counselor to Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, former Senior Advisor, U.S. Department of State, Founding Future of War Senior Fellow 2014-2017
Iona Craig
Journalist working in Yemen, winner of the 2016 Orwell Prize, 2014 Martha Gellhorn Prize and 2018 George Polk Award, ASU Future of War Fellow at New America 2018-2019
Jen Daskal
currently Deputy General Counsel at the Department of Homeland Security, Professor and Faculty Director of the Tech, Law, Security Program at American University Washington College of Law, ASU Future Security Fellow at New America 2020-2021
Patricia Evangelista
Trauma journalist from the Philippines covering disaster, conflict, and human rights issues, award-winning staff reporter for Rappler focusing on President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs, ASU Future Security Fellow at New America 2019-2020
Jill Filipovic
Contributing opinion writer for The New York Times writing on women’s rights in conflict zones, author of The H-Spot: The Feminist Pursuit of Happiness, ASU Future of War Fellow at New America 2018-2019
Joshua Geltzer
Ccurrently Special Assistant to the President and Special Advisor to the Homeland Security Advisor on Countering Domestic Violent Extremism, former Executive Director of the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection, Georgetown University Law Center, ASU Future Security Fellow at New America 2017-2018
Mike Giglio
Journalist and writer focused on war, terrorism, and national security, working on the growing political influence of U.S. militant groups, ASU Future Security Fellow at New America 2021-2022
Suzy Hansen
Contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and author of Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World, which was a finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize, ASU Future Security Fellow at New America 2019-2020
Shane Harris
Staff writer at the Washington Post, where he covers national security, intelligence, and cyber security, as well as the author of @War: The Rise of the Military-Internet Complex, ASU Future of War Fellow at New America 2014-2015
Victor J. Blue
Photojournalist and writer focusing on the legacy of armed conflict with major projects on Afghanistan and Guatemala, work appearing regularly in the New York Times, the New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, the New York Times Magazine, and the Wall Street Journal, 7 Pictures of the Year International awards and 5 NPPA Best of Photojournalism awards, ASU Future Security Fellow at New America 2023-2024.
Jonathan Katz
Journalist, and author of The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster, awarded the Medill Medal for Courage in Journalism, ASU Future of War Fellow at New America 2018-2019
Azmat Khan
investigative journalist, Carnegie Fellow, winner multiple awards including a Pulitzer Prize, the National Magazine Award, the Hillman Prize, the Overseas Press Club Ed Cunningham Award, and the Deadline Club Magazine Investigative Reporting Award, ASU Future of War Fellow at New America 2016-2017
Khameer Kidia
Writer, anthropologist, Rhodes Scholar, and global health physician on the faculty at Brigham and Womenʼs Hospital and Harvard Medical School, ASU Future Security Fellow 2022-2023.
David Kilcullen
Former Chief Strategist in the State Department’s Counterterrorism Bureau and Senior Counterinsurgency Advisor to General David Petraeus, author of multiple best-selling books including The Dragons and the Snakes: How the Rest Learned to Fight the West and Blood Year: The Unraveling of Western Counterterrorism, Founding Future of War Senior Fellow 2014-2018
Suki Kim
Journalist, and author of New York Times best-seller Without You, There Is No Us: Undercover Among the Sons of North Korean Elite, recipient of Guggenheim, Fulbright, and Open Society fellowships ASU Future of War Fellow at New America 2018-2019
Yi-Ling Liu
Award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in New York Times Magazine, Harper’s Magazine, Foreign Policy, The Economist, and The New Yorker, ASU Future Security Fellow at New America 2020-2021
Sarah Esther Maslin
Journalist focusing on Latin America, formerly the Economist’s Brazil correspondent, articles appearing in the Washington Post, the New York Times Magazine, the Atlantic, and other publications, writing a book on the 1981 massacre in El Mozote, El Salvador and the impact of violence, trauma and impunity.
Lt. Col. Sean McCafferty
Active duty in the Signal Corps of the U.S. Army, former Chief of Plans & Strategy at U.S. Army Cyber Command, Research Fellow at the Center on the Future of War
Azadeh Moaveni
Gender Project Director, International Crisis Group, author of Guest House for Young Widows: Among the Women of ISIS, Lipstick Jihad, Honeymoon in Tehran and Iran Awakening which she co-wrote with Nobel Laureate Shirin Ebadi, ASU Future of War Fellow at New America 2016-2018
Vann R. Newkirk II
Senior editor at The Atlantic, and the host and co-creator of narrative podcasts Floodlines and Holy Week, 2022 Andrew Carnegie fellow, winner of a Peabody Award, named Journalist of the Year by the Washington Association of Black Journalists, ASU Future Security Fellow at New America 2024-2025
Douglas Ollivant
Former Director for Iraq at the National Security Council during both the Bush and Obama administrations, Founding Future of War Senior Fellow 2014-2019
George Packer
Staff writer at the New Yorker since 2003, author of The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America, which won the 2013 National Book Award for non-fiction, Guggenheim fellow, Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, ASU Future of War Fellow at New America 2017-2018
Janet Reitman
Contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine, covering extremism, youth, and national security, best-selling author, ASU Future Security Fellow at New America 2021-2022
Tom Ricks
Former national security correspondent for The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post, part of two Pulitzer Prize winning teams and author of many bestselling books including Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2003-05, Founding Future of War Senior Fellow 2014-2017
Scott Silverstone
Professor of International Relations and Director of the International Relations Program at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, author of From Hitler’s Germany to Saddam’s Iraq: The Enduring False Promise of Preventive War and Preventive War and American Democracy, ASU Future of War Fellow at New America, 2016-2017
Peter W. Singer
Strategist and Senior Fellow at New America, one of the world’s leading experts on 21st century security issues, the author of multiple books on child soldiers, cyberwar and emerging military technologies including, LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media, Founding Future of War Senior Fellow 2014-2018
David Wood
Journalist covering the military for four decades, winner of a 2012 Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on moral injury, ASU Future of War Fellow at New America, 2015-2016
Research fellows
Rozina Ali
Journalist focusing on the Middle East and South Asia, the post-9/11 wars, and islamophobia, contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine and fellow at Type Media Center and 2022-23 Cullman.
Robert J. Bunker
Applied theorist focusing on future war and conflict, violent non-state actors (VNSAs), and counter-opposing force (C-OPFOR) strategies, past U.S. Army War College Minerva Chair and FBI Academy Futurist in Residence. Currently, Director of Research & Analysis with C/O Futures, LLC and Senior Fellow, Small Wars Journal-El Centro.
Ben Dalton
Program manager, New America’s Future Frontlines program, formerly a journalist and producer for BuzzFeed News, World Learning, and the International Crisis Group, his work has appeared in The New York Times, PBS NewsHour, Al Jazeera, CNN.com, the Christian Science Monitor, among other publications.
Karen Greenberg
Director, Center on National Security at Fordham Law, author of multiple books with work featured in the New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and other media. She has a Ph.D. in history from Yale University.
Roger Herbert
Former Robert T. Herres Distinguished Military Professor of Ethics, US Naval Academy, former Navy SEAL, Captain (ret.), US Navy, with multiple deployments, research focuses on special operations ethics and leadership
Jeremy Hodge
Senior Investigator, Zomia Center and an investigative journalist covering the rise of extremism in Syria and Iraq, the petroleum/defense sectors, and regional finance, with articles in Foreign Affairs, The Nation, Le Monde Diplomatique, Al Jazeera, The Daily Beast, Africa Confidential and other publications.
Jesse Kirkpatrick
Research Assistant Professor and the Acting Director of the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy, George Mason University working on the ethics of peace and security and emerging technologies
Sol Laudon
Software engineer, Director, Refugee Technology Programs at the Zomia Center, research experience in North Africa and the Middle East.
David Maxwell
A national security policy expert who spent more than 30 years in Asia as a practitioner and specializes in Korea and Northeast Asian Security Affairs and irregular, unconventional, and political warfare. He retired as a Special Forces Colonel having served in command and staff positions at all levels in the U.S. Army and USSOCOM.
Joanna Naples-Mitchell
International human rights lawyer, Director, Program on Redress for Survivors of U.S. and Coalition Airstrikes at the Zomia Center, previously worked for Human Rights Watch and Physicians for Human Rights.
Víctor Rodríguez Rescia
President of the International Institute for Social Responsibility and Human Rights (IIRESODH), former member and president of different United Nations human rights bodies and former secretary of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
David Sterman
Senior policy analyst, New America, focuses on violent extremism in America, proxy warfare, and the effectiveness and consequences of American counterterrorism.
John Sullivan
Dr. John P. Sullivan was a career police officer, now retired after 30 years. He is an Instructor in the Safe Communities Institute (SCI) at the Sol Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California, Senior El Centro Fellow at Small Wars Journal, Contributing Editor at Homeland Security Today
Staff
Tony Roth
Sr. Coordinator, communications professional with several decades’ experience in city government and TV stations in the San Francisco Bay Area and in Phoenix, AZ.
Affiliated faculty
The Center works with over 150 affiliated faculty from multiple programs and units at ASU including scholars of political science, history, religious studies, law, engineering, public policy, sustainability, philosophy, international development, security studies, regional studies, and other fields. Affiliated faculty participate in a variety of ways, including designing and managing research projects, presenting at events and conferences, and otherwise contributing to debate, discussion, and the intellectual life of our Center.
New America team
The Center works with several dozen experts based at New America including journalists, researchers, former government officials, former members of the U.S. military, and specialists in international human rights and global humanitarian assistance. Team members mentor ASU students, participate in events, draft reports and article and otherwise support Center activities.