Emerging Foreign Policy Doctrine in a Brutally Challenging World
The global landscape facing the still-new hands of the Trump Administration includes a dizzying assortment of economic, political, and military challenges. The policy rhetoric often believes the actual courses being steered. That makes it difficult to sketch out the foreign policy doctrine that will mark President Trump’s second term. However, there are some characteristics emerging that allow early assumptions on how America will navigate a world order that has profoundly changed from what came before. We’ll explore the trends with a distinguished panel of foreign policy historians
Friday, October 10 I 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
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Register NowIntroduction: LCDR Patrick Ryan, USN (Ret) (President Emeritus, Tennessee World Affairs Council)
Patrick Ryan is the founding president and President Emeritus of the Tennessee World Affairs Council. He served 26 years in the U.S. Navy as a Submariner, Surface Warfare Officer, and Intelligence Officer. He ran a newsletter publishing business focused on Middle East affairs for 17 years. Ryan serves as President of the Tennessee Submarine Memorial Association. He writes a Substack.com column titled “There and Here,” looking at current events.
Panelist: Dr. Amy Sayward (Professor of History, Middle Tennessee State University)
Dr. Amy Sayward is a professor of History at Middle Tennessee State University and is the new director of its campus American Democracy Project. She recently completed a decade as the executive director of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR). She is the author of several books on the United Nations and Tennessee history.
Panelist: Dr. Thomas Alan Schwartz (Professor of History and Political Science, Vanderbilt University)
Thomas Alan Schwartz is a Professor of History and Political Science at Vanderbilt University. Educated at Columbia, Oxford, and Harvard Universities, he is the author of the books America’s Germany: John J. McCloy and the Federal Republic of Germany (1991) and Lyndon Johnson and Europe: In the Shadow of Vietnam(2003), and the forthcoming, Henry Kissinger and American Power: A Political Biography (Hill and Wang, 2020). Along with Matthias Schulz, he produced the edited volume, The Strained Alliance: US-European Relations in the 1970s, (2009). He has received fellowships from
the German Historical Institute, the Norwegian Nobel Institute, the Woodrow Wilson Center, and the Social Science Research Center. He served on the Historical Advisory Committee of the Department of State, and was the President of the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations. He has taught the History of the Vietnam War class at Vanderbilt for the last thirty years. While teaching at Vanderbilt, he has received the Madison Sarratt Teaching prize (2013) and the Alumni Education Award (2008).
Panelist: Dr. Breck Walker (Board Member, Tennessee World Affairs Council)
Breck Walker pursued a twenty-year career in international business, law, and finance, before turning to academia. For several years, he taught foreign policy courses at Sewanee, The University of the South, and worked as a contract historian for the Office of the Secretary of Defense Historical Office, researching and writing on early Pentagon policies in the computer security and cyber areas. Dr. Walker is currently retired.
