EVENTS ARCHIVE

Spies & Storytellers With Osama bin Laden’s interviewer and other top pros! From recruiting sources and building trust to turning secret information into digestible narratives, spy skills and technologies have led to journalistic breakthroughs. Peter Bergen (CNN National Security Analyst, journalist, author), Liza Mundy (NY Times Best-selling author, journalist), and Dan Hoffman (three-time CIA station […]

October 3, at Loudermilk Center noon to 115pm Peter Bergen, CNN’s National Security Analyst & VP at New America

Tweet [ONLINE] – Bringing Americans Home 2022 Assessing Hostage and Detainee Policy Reforms Event Having a son or daughter, husband or mother taken hostage or detained in a foreign land is one of the most frightening experiences imaginable. Recent years have brought a growing challenge of states wrongfully detaining Americans while the situation facing Americans […]

New America and Arizona State University invite you to the 2022 Future Security Forum, to be held online on September 13, 2022.

At 1545-1615, a Fireside Chat on the #Biden Administration’s Counter-#ISIS Strategy in the Middle East, with: – Joshua Geltzer (@jgeltzer Deputy Assistant to the President & Deputy Homeland Security Advisor, @WHNSC Peter Bergen, @NewAmerica & @CNN

Share Tweet [ONLINE] – Geography is Destiny: A 10,000 Year History of Britain and the World Event Geography plays a central role in shaping international politics and security. The importance of geography and how people interpret it was on full display for Britain, as the country debated and then voted for Brexit. Yet, the role […]

Share Tweet [ONLINE] – Strategic Foresight in U.S. Agencies The Challenge of Long-Term Thinking Amid Uncertainty Event How can American policymakers adequately value the long term given the uncertainty of the future and the resulting pressure to focus on the short term? In his report, “Strategic Foresight in U.S. Agencies,” New America International Security Program […]

The Bin Laden Papers: How the Abbottabad Raid Revealed the Truth about al-Qaeda DATE: April 26, 2022 TIME: 12:00 – 1:00 PM Bin Laden’s greatest fear was not capture or death but the revelation of al-Qaeda’s secrets. Yet when he was killed in May 2011, SEAL Team 6 brought back thousands of pages of al-Qaeda’s […]

INE] – The Forever Prisoner: Abu Zubaydah and the CIA’s “Enhanced Interrogation” Program EVENT Six months after 9/11, the CIA captured Abu Zubaydah and announced he was number three in Al Qaeda. Frantic to thwart a much-feared second wave of attacks, the U.S. rendered him to a secret black site in Thailand, where he collided […]