P. W. Singer
P. W. Singer | |
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| Born | Peter Warren Singer 1974 (age 51–52) |
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| Known for | Corporate Warriors, Children at War, Wired For War |
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| Fields | Political Science, International Relations, Modern warfare |
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Peter Warren Singer (born 1974) is an American political scientist, an international relations scholar and a specialist on 21st-century warfare. He is also a New York Times bestselling author.
Career
[edit]Singer is currently a Strategist for the New America Foundation, a Professor of Practice at Arizona State University,[1] and a founder of Useful Fiction LLC.[2] He has also received the title of a "mad scientist" for the US Army's Training and Doctrine Command.[3] Singer previously worked at the Harvard University Belfer Center, the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and was senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, where he was director of the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence.[4] Singer also served as coordinator of the Defense Policy Task Force for Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign as well as contributing editor for Popular Science.[5]
Singer has been named to the "Top 100 Global Thinkers" list by Foreign Policy.[6] Defense News named him one of the 100 most influential people on defense issues.[7] He also served on the advisory group for Joint Forces Command, helping the U.S. military visualize and plan for the future. In 2015, he was named by Onalytica analysis as one of the ten most influential voices on cybersecurity.[8] In addition to his work on conflict issues, Singer was a member of the State Department's Advisory Committee on International Communications and Information Policy.[9]
Singer has provided commentary on technology and military affairs for media outlets including ABC News Nightline, Al Jazeera, BBC, CBS-60 Minutes, CNN, Fox, NPR, The Daily Show, and the NBC Today Show.
He is also a founder and organizer of multiple non-profit initiatives. They include the U.S.–Islamic World Forum, a global conference that brings together leaders from across the United States and the Muslim world,[10][11] the Cyber Citizenship initiative, which seeks to build skills among K-12 students to have greater resilience from online threats of misinformation and disinformation,[12] and the #ShareTheMicInCyber Fellowship,[13] which support professionals from traditionally underrepresented communities in the field of cybersecurity.
Singer has also worked with a variety of entertainment world projects for Warner Brothers, DreamWorks, and Universal, including the movies Traitor, and Whistleblower, the TV series Strike Back and Curiosity, as well as the 24: Redemption movie/DVD. Singer served as consultant on the bestselling Activision video game series Call of Duty.[14]
Books
[edit]Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry
[edit]Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry (2003, Cornell University Press, ISBN 0801441145)
Children at War
[edit]Children at War (2005, Pantheon, ISBN 9780520248762)
Wired for War
[edit]Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century (Penguin, 2009, ISBN 9781594201981)
Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What Everyone Needs to Know
[edit]Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press, 2014, ISBN 9780199918096)
Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War
[edit]Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War (Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015, ISBN 0544142845)
LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media
[edit]LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media (Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018, ISBN 9781328695741)
Burn-In: A Novel of the Real Robotic Revolution
[edit]Burn-In: A Novel of the Real Robotic Revolution (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020, ISBN 9781328637239)
Task Force Talon: A Novel of the Army's Next Fight
[edit]Task Force Talon: A Novel of the Army's Next Fight is an upcoming novel by Singer and August Cole.
See also
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ↑ "Cybersecurity expert joins ASU as professor of practice". ASU News. 19 April 2019. Retrieved 2 September 2021.
- ↑ "Home, Useful Fiction". Useful Fiction. Retrieved 2 September 2021.
- ↑ "332. Realer than Real: Useful Fiction with P.W. Singer and August Cole". 10 June 2021. Retrieved 2 September 2021.
- ↑ "Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence". Brookings Institution. Retrieved 29 December 2013.
- ↑ "Blog Eastern Arsenal Archives". Popular Science. Retrieved 2 September 2021.
- ↑ Rothkopf, David (30 November 2009). "The FP Top 100 Global Thinkers". Foreign Policy. Retrieved 29 December 2013.
- ↑ "This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine". Retrieved 22 May 2015.
{{cite web}}: Cite uses generic title (help)[dead link] - ↑ ""About Us"". Useful Fiction. Retrieved 30 August 2021.
- ↑ "International Communications and Information Policy". 2009-2017.state.gov.
- ↑ P.W. Singer Biography Archived 2013-12-03 at the Wayback Machine, PWSinger.com
- ↑ "U.S.–Islamic World Forum". Archived from the original on 14 November 2007. Retrieved 29 December 2013.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ↑ "Cyber Citizenship Initiative". New America. Retrieved 2 September 2021.
- ↑ "#ShareTheMicInCyber Fellowship". New America. Retrieved 1 May 2023.
- ↑ "Interview: 'Black Ops II' consultant Peter Singer". USA Today. 2 May 2012. Retrieved 29 December 2013.
External links
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- P.W. Singer Author website
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- Curriculum vitae
- Brookings Institution
- Wired for War book website
- Video (with audio-only available) of conversation with Singer and John Horgan on Bloggingheads.tv
- Interview with Peter Singer on Child Soldiers, Private Soldiers and Robots by Theory Talks
- Interview on Wired for War at the Pritzker Military Museum & Library
- Audio: Peter Singer in conversation on the BBC World Service discussion programme The Forum
- P. W. Singer at TED
