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Retired U.S. Army Colonel Christopher D. Kolenda, Ph.D. is the founder of the Strategic Leaders Academy and the author of Zero-Sum Victory: What We're Getting Wrong About War. He will discuss the failures in Afghanistan and how to prevent future fiascos.

WITH A SPECIAL INTRODUCTION BY Amaney A. Jamal, Dean, School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA); Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Director: Bobst-AUB Collaborative Initiative You may only attend if you have a Princeton ID. Please register here to attend this in-person lecture

Algorithmic Mechanism Design studies the design of algorithms in settings where participants have their own incentives. For example, when executing an ad auction, the auctioneer/designer wants to achieve as much profit as possible, but each advertiser wants the best impressions for the lowest price (and may manipulate an…

Kristina Douglass is an archaeologist who investigates how people, land- and seascapes co-evolve. She is the Joyce and Doug Sherwin Early Career Professor in the Rock Ethics Institute and Assistant Professor of Anthropology and African Studies at Penn State University. She is a Penn State Institutes for Energy and the…

Deaths of despair, morbidity and emotional distress continue to rise in the US. The increases are largely borne by those without a four-year college degree—the majority of American adults. For many less-educated Americans, the economy and society are no longer providing the basis for a good life. Concurrently, all-cause…

Marc Knapper is a top American diplomat and expert in Asian affairs currently serving as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Korea and Japan. He has served in South Korea as Chargé d’Affaires, the embassy's top post, from 2017-2018 and previously as deputy chief of mission in Seoul. Prior posts include Tokyo, Hanoi, and Baghdad. Mr…

Hispanics in the United States are a highly heterogeneous population encompassing long established citizens; newly arrived immigrants; and people boasting a multiplicity of national ancestries. As a whole, they comprise 18.5 percent of the U.S. population. Like African Americans, they are overrepresented among those who have…

To celebrate this year's Veteran's Day, CISS invites you to a conversation with Professor Michael Hunzeker, Assistant Professor at George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government, where he is also the associate director of the Center for Security Policy Studies.

This international seminar will bring together eminent experts who have lived and shaped events in and around Afghanistan post 9/11 and in the time of the bombings of Tora Bora – a mountain range in North East Afghanistan. They will address critical perspectives of Afghanistan’s history, society, politics, economy, and the…

Join the Mil101 Series for an hour with Lieutenant Colonel (Promotable) Ben Selzer, US Army War College Fellow at Princeton, who will discuss his experiences over a decade as a European specialist for the US Army and Joint military community. With previous assignments in the US, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, LTC Selzer…