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12, 2021
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October 1-3, 2020
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Past Conferences
- The Conference The campaign and presidency of Donald J. Trump triggered vigorous debate among psychiatrists about the Goldwater Rule. Set by the American Psychiatric
- May 11 -
- 11, 2021
- The Conference Several decades after the end of the Cold War, the world’s nuclear superpowers still struggle to understand the role that amorphous theories
- April 21 -
- 23, 2021
- The Conference Climate Change is affecting the entire planet, but it is the Arctic that is experiencing some of its most rapid and dramatic
- October 1 -
- 3, 2020
- The Conference This workshop is the culmination of a collaboration between the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), the Center for Ethics and
- September 17 -
- 17, 2020
- The Conference Decades of data show that when women do better, countries do better. But after twenty years of domestic and international Women, Peace
- February 11 -
- 11, 2020
- The Conference Democracies are facing increasing threats by autocratic regimes around the world and by autocratic notions and leanings within their own borders. Many
- November 21 -
- 22, 2019
- The Conference Actio Libera Technological advances have improved current weapons systems and led to the development of more precise means and methods of warfare.
- September 26 -
- 26, 2019
- The Conference The conviction of President Trump’s campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, the recent arrest of President Obama’s former White House counsel, Greg Craig and Skadden
- April 17 -
- 17, 2019
- The Conference The U.S. Special Operations Command defines grey zone challenges as “competitive interactions among and within state and non-state actors that fall between
- April 3 -
- 4, 2019
- The Conference International law has long recognized that some infringements of another state’s sovereignty are sufficiently grave as to constitute a violation of international
- November 1 -
- 3, 2018
- The Conference It is a unique moment in the study of interrogation and torture and in the development of international law. Two novel and
- September 20 -
- 21, 2021
- The Conference Historically, strategic restraint has been the dominant approach among space faring nations, all of whom understood that continued access to and use
- April 5 -
- 7, 2018
- The Conference This conference will consist of two parts. The morning session is by invitation only. The afternoon session, comprised of three panels and
- March 16 -
- 16, 2018
- The Conference Journalism is under attack. The tensions between the responsibilities of journalists and the prerogatives of the government when dealing with issues of
- November 9 -
- 10, 2017
- The Conference The challenges that a nuclear North Korea poses to its neighbors, the U.S. and the global community have constituted headline news for
- October 17 -
- 17, 2017
- The Conference The discovery of widespread attempts to influence the 2016 Presidential election in the U.S. on the part of the Russians has sent
- April 18 -
- 18, 2017
- The Conference In March 2001, six months before the attacks of 9/11, the Taliban provoked international outrage when it destroyed two Ancient statues of
- April 4 -
- 6, 2017
- The Conference Recent challenges in international security posed by two terrorist organizations, Al Qaeda and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), have
- October 27 -
- 29, 2016
- Conference September 22, 2016 The impact of sexual violence on victims is so severe that it has been compared by many professionals to the
- September 22 -
- 22, 2016
- The Conference This symposium will focus on concepts of ethical leadership and explore the contribution that educational, military, political, professional and business institutions can
- September 15 -
- 15, 2016
- The Conference When states conduct negotiations in the shadow of armed conflict, the exercise of diplomacy raises certain unique challenges. Conducting relations with “rogue
- April 14 -
- 14, 2016
- The Conference The financial burdens of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) alone on U.S. economy are estimated to range in the billions of dollars. The
- December 3 -
- 5, 2015
- The Conference Cyberweapons and cyberwarfare have become the most dangerous innovation of this century1 and are now considered by the FBI to be the number
- October 15 -
- 15, 2015
- The Conference The defense industry operates at the intersection of the public and private sectors in a global arena and routinely interacts with foreign legal
- April 15 -
- 16, 2015
- The Conference This event is taking place at The National Press Club in Washington, DC 529 14th Street, NW, 13th Floor, Washington, DC 20045.
- February 25 -
- 25, 2015
- The Conference Autonomous Weapons Systems (AWS) are defined by the U.S. Department of Defense as “a weapon system(s) that, once activated, can select and
- November 21 -
- 21, 2014
- Background Readings General Theory and Readings Waltman, G. Prosecuting ISIS. University of Mississippi School of Law, 2014. List of All Security Council resolutions dealing with Terrorism
- April 11 -
- 12, 2014
- The Conference In Philosophical Investigations, the philosopher Ludwig Wittgentein famously suggested that language is a public, shared phenomenon, and accordingly, that there is no
- November 22 -
- 23, 2013
- The Conference Conflicts between the norms by which professionals are governed and more general national security norms are currently widespread in professional life. Journalists
- October 4 -
- 4, 2013
- The Conference The concept of sovereignty is the core attribute of the modern state. It has an “inside” face—the relation of the state to
- April 19 -
- 20, 2013
- The Conference Discussions of the logic of deterrence, both theoretical and practical, dominated the literature on just war theory during the Cold War. Despite
- November 16 -
- 17, 2012
- The Conference In the United States, cyberwarfare technology was originally developed by the Bush Administration and the Obama Administration has further expanded its use.
- October 15 -
- 15, 2012
- The Conference September 11, 2012 | Michael Fitts Auditorium4:00pm Since 9/11, increasing pressures on national security, together with global changes in the nature of war,
- September 11 -
- 11, 2012
- The Conference Recent events have put governmental secrecy in the news and enhanced the scrutiny of classification practices. During the Bush Administration, for example,
- May 18 -
- 19, 2012
- The Conference Actio Libera in Causa, is the criminal law doctrine involving defendants who “create the conditions of their own defense.” The occasion for
- December 8 -
- 9, 2011
- The Conference The Obama administration has authorized the CIA to target and kill Anwar al-Aulaqi, a radical Muslim cleric believed to have ties to
- April 15 -
- 16, 2011
- The Conference The point of this conference is to examine some of the fundamental philosophical concepts on which modern debates in international law are
- April 23 -
- 24, 2010
- The Conference This workshop-style conference is the second in a two-part series addressing the legal and moral complexities of what is commonly referred to
