Workshop Offered May 16-18, 2024 Description As America’s adversaries grow stronger and more assertive, America’s relative advantages deteriorate, and the Western world’s “holiday from history” comes to an end, the United States will need to marshal its resources and employ them more effectively to defend its people, its allies, and their way of life. Strategy, the process by which the country’s leadership does that, is becoming more important, but the geopolitical, economic, technological, religious, and ideological shifts that are making …
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Workshop Offered February 9-11, 2024 Description Emerging technologies promise solutions to approaching crises from energy to climate. Artificial intelligence and transhumanist technologies make similar promises to alter human life and identity for the better. Yet, at the same time, it has become too easy for states to place their populations under surveillance, collect behavioral data, and practice predictive policing. The conflicts in Ukraine and Israel have demonstrated how technology has made information, disinformation, and public relations an increasingly important aspect …
Workshop offered November 16-19, 2023 Description Thucydides is thought to be the first and greatest teacher of power, of the facts that might makes right, and that wars begin as a consequence of fear. Thinkers from Thomas Hobbes to proponents of modern “realist” schools of international relations invoke his name. But what are his teachings, exactly? And what can he tell us about modern warfare? In this workshop, certificate candidates will study Thucydides’ great history of the Peloponnesian War with …