EVENTS ARCHIVE

[Online] Combating Antisemitism in Germany and Poland: Strategies Since 1990 DATE: May 2, 2024 TIME: 12:00-1:00 PM EST In both Germany and Poland—primary locations of the Holocaust—the legacy of antisemitism remains a major obstacle to reconciliation with the past. In his new book Combating Antisemitism in Germany and Poland: Strategies Since 1990, Thomas Just examines […]

[ONLINE] The Yemen Model: Why U.S. Policy Has Failed in the Middle East In 2023, Yemen again burst into the news, as Houthi rebels attacked shipping in the Red Sea, and the United States along with the U.K. and other countries responded with a campaign of air strikes. Yet this is only the latest crisis […]

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 […]

SOF Imperatives Forum

The Challenges to Security in 2024 Wednesday, January 24 6:00-7:00pm Eastern Time / 4:00-5:00pm Arizona Time Online, via Zoom Webinar Join FSI co-directors Peter Bergen and Daniel Rothenberg for a discussion about key global security challenges in 2024. This is part of a series of events featuring faculty from the ASU Online M.A. in Global […]

[ONLINE] – God, Guns, and Sedition: Far-Right Terrorism in America EVENT Shocking acts of terrorism have erupted from violent American far-right extremists in recent years, including the 2015 mass murder at a historic Black church in Charleston and the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. These incidents, however, are neither new nor unprecedented. […]