In recent years, the sight of gun-wielding citizens patrolling ballot boxes and voting sites has become increasingly familiar. Major news corporations parroting false claims of election fraud, ballot stuffing, and faulty voting systems is the new normal. In an era of global anti-democratic movements, the sanctity of democratic electoral processes has become a major national security concern, and the need to protect elections from foreign interference, disinformation, voter intimidation, and the danger of election results being overturned, are now front and center. How did we get here?
Over the last two decades, the United States has supported a range of militias, rebels, and other armed groups in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria. Critics have argued that such partnerships have many perils, from enabling human rights abuses to seeding future threats. Is it possible to work with such forces but mitigate some of these risks? In Illusions of Control: Dilemmas in Managing U.S. Proxy Forces in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria, Erica L. Gaston explores U.S.
As the American hostage crisis in Iran boiled into its seventh month in the spring of 1980, six heavily armed gunman barged into the Iranian embassy in London, taking twenty-six hostages. What followed over the next six days was an increasingly tense standoff that threatened at any moment to spill into a bloodbath. As police negotiators pressed the gunmen, rival protestors clashed violently outside the embassy, and as MI6 and the CIA scrambled for intelligence, Britain’s special forces strike team, the SAS, laid plans for a dangerous rescue mission.
The British Library is hosting a series of webinars focused on libraries and the climate crisis. The aim of the series is to bring together international library leaders to share their different responses to the climate emergency.
Orion Magazine and Arizona State University’s Center for Science and the Imagination present a conversation between two leading authors of speculative writing—Victor LaValle and Carmen Maria Machado—to celebrate the launch of Orion’s most recent anthology, Unnatural Disasters.
The McCain Institute is pleased to host the launch of the report, “Defending American Democracy in the Digital Age.” This hybrid public event will take place on Wednesday, September 18, from 10:30 a.m.–1 p.m. ET at the McCain Institute at the Barrett & O’Connor Center in Washington, D.C. It will also be livestreamed. Written in partnership with the Cronkite School for Journalism and Mass Communication, the report sheds light on the growing threats posed by disinformation campaigns targeting our core institutions and American democratic values.
Understanding and addressing the social dimensions of carbon removal can be a challenge. What have we learned so far? Come hear findings and insights from three research efforts. We’ll hear from:
-Holly Jean Buck (University at Buffalo) on a new report on 100 conversations about carbon removal in five regions of the US
-Mahmud Farooque and Amanda Borth (Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes, Arizona State University) on research and engagement
The Afghanistan Student Association, in partnership with the American Institute of Afghanistan Studies, the Future Security Initiative and the Leadership, Diplomacy and National Security Lab, invites you to our annual event marking the third anniversary of the United States withdrawal from Afghanistan. This event aims to offer a nuanced perspective on the US's 20-year military and strategic involvement in Afghanistan in addition to critical reflections on the current human rights situations in the country.
On September 9 and 10, 2024, Arizona State University (ASU) and New America will host the 10th annual Future Security Forum in collaboration with
U.S.-born Protestant evangelicalism has gone global to an extent of which many might be unaware. In doing so it has become part of the story of the global reverberations of the post-9/11 era. In Soul by Soul: The Evangelical Mission to Spread the Gospel to Muslims, journalist Adriana Carranca tells the story of American evangelicals’ mobilization to proclaim Christianity “to the ends of the Earth,” a movement that triumphed in the Global South, challenged the Vatican, and then turned east after 9/11 to spread the Gospel among Muslims.