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Deterring America’s Rivals and Enemies Deterring America’s Rivals and Enemies Event description FreeOpen to the public The Leadership, Democracy and National Security Lab is proud to present Peter Bergen, Author, documentary producer, podcast host, professor of practice at Arizona State University, vice president at New America, and CNN’s national security analyst. Topic: The world’s leading […]

[ONLINE] – The Return of the Great Powers EVENT The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 dawned what Francis Fukuyama called “The End of History.” Three decades later, the global order as we long have known it is now gone. Powerful nations are determined to assert dominance on the world stage. Russia’s invasion of […]

[ONLINE] – The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the CIA, and the Origins of America’s Invasion of Iraq EVENT In The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the CIA, and the Origins of America’s Invasion of Iraq, bestselling and Pulitzer Prize–winning author Steve Coll, tracks the decades-long relationship between the United States and Saddam Hussein in a deeply […]

[ONLINE] – How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler EVENT In the summer of 1941, Britain was struggling to combat Hitler’s powerful propaganda machine. British claims that Hitler was dangerous had little impact against Germany’s wave of disinformation. Except for the broadcasts of someone called Der Chef, a German who questioned […]

Share Tweet [ONLINE] – American Mother Event In late 2021, Diane Foley sat at a table across from her son’s killer, Alexanda Kotey, a member of the ISIS group known as “The Beatles” who pleaded guilty to the kidnapping, torture, and murder of her son seven years before. Kotey was about to go serve life […]