U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS There’s not a more timely program. Washington and Beijing are doubling down on conflicts in an already troublesome relationship. Consulates in Houston and Chengdu have been ordered shut. Secretary Pompeo traveled to the Nixon library to deliver an address on America’s future approach, “Today China is increasingly authoritarian at home, and more...Read More

 Global Energy and “Crude Oil, Crude Money” Thomas W. Lippman The global energy market is in turmoil. Inventories are high and demand is low. We recently saw a negative price call for crude oil and fully laden tankers are sitting at anchorages waiting for customers. The International Energy Agency said oil demand was “down...Read More

 Global Dialogue: International Affairs Speakers Program The Future of U.S. Foreign Policy The View from the State Department From the State Department Office of Policy Planning Martha Simms Shawanesh Underwood and Colonel William Schaum with Moderator Professor Thomas Schwartz and Host Patrick Ryan Join us for this Special Edition of Global Dialogue, our speakers...Read More

In this episode recorded June 16, 2020, TNWAC President Patrick Ryan talks with Nancy Lindborg, President of the United States Institute of Peace (USIP). They discussed: – Ms. Lindborg’s background and how she came to work in international affairs especially the world of peace and conflict. – The United States Institute of Peace, in its...Read More

As part of Harvard’s American Diplomacy Project: A Foreign Service for the 21st Century, Americans who are “tuned in” to world affairs are asked to contribute their perspectives to this non-partisan national discussion of how to revitalize and modernize American diplomacy and the U.S. Foreign Service. The goal is to generate specific proposals to be...Read More

–Moderator, Ambassador William Luers, US Foreign Service (Retired), Director, The Iran Project –Dr. Gary Sick, Senior Research Scholar, Columbia University’s Middle East Institute and Adjunct Professor at the School of International and Public Affairs –Ellie Geranmayeh, Senior Policy Fellow and Deputy Program Head, Middle East and North Africa Program at the European Council on Foreign...Read More

This episode of the “Global Dialogue: International Speakers Program” organized by the Tennessee World Affairs Council (TNWAC.org) featured Jeremy Goldkorn and John Scannapieco with host Patrick Ryan (TNWAC President). This superb discussion of the current tension in the Sino-American relationship focused on the consequences of the Covid-19 virus spread, the commercial ties and the national...Read More

The Middle East is still there and the Covid-19 pandemic has not made any of the troubles there any better. Let’s have a dialogue. Join us for a tour d’horizon of this important region where Americans serve in harm’s way with David DesRoches, retired US Army Colonel and Professor at the Near East South Asia...Read More