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Thursday, September 4, 2014 – 12:00 Peter Bergen MU- Mohave Room

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  Registration for the 2014 Aspen Security Forum is now open! To answer critical questions about homeland security and counterterrorism, the Aspen Institute’s Homeland Security Program, in partnership with The New York Times and CNN’s Security Clearance website, presents the fifth annual Aspen Security Forum, July 23-26, 2014. The Forum is an annual summer gathering at our signature “Aspen […]

  MAY 30, 2014 WASHINGTON, DC 8:30 AM – 4:00 PM EST SUMMARY This conference will bring together leading scholars and practitioners from the United States, Europe, and the Arab world to examine the complex dynamics underway within al-Qaeda. RELATED TOPICS REGISTER TO ATTEND This conference will bring together leading scholars and practitioners from the United States, […]

THE STEPHEN E. AMBROSE ORAL HISTORY AWARD is presented annually by The Rutgers University Living History Society to individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to the practice and/or use of oral history.  The award is named for the late historian and author Stephen E. Ambrose, who helped guide the Rutgers Oral History Archives program at […]

Reporting in Pakistan Protecting Journalists in One of the World’s Most Dangerous Countries As Kati Marton, an author, journalist, and board member for both the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and the New America Foundation, notes in a recent blog post, Pakistan has long been one of the most dangerous countries in the world for […]

War! What Is It Good For? Conflict and the Progress of Civilization from Primates to Robots In his provocative new book, War! What Is It Good For?: Conflict and the Progress of Civilization from Primates to Robots, historian Ian Morris turns Edwin Starr’s old song lyric on its head, arguing that war has actually been quite […]