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SUMMARY:ELECTION 2020: Foreign Policy Challenges: The Middle East | Oct 1
DESCRIPTION:.\nIn Association with the World Affairs Council of Harrisburg\, Belmont University and \nthe Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce\n.\n\n.\nU.S. Foreign Policy Challenges: The Middle East\n. \n \n. \nOctober 1\, 2020\n6:30-8:00 pm Eastern Time / 5:30-7:00 pm Central Time\n\nPatrick W. Ryan\, President\, TNWAC; LCDR\, USN (Ret); Panel Chair\nRami Khouri\, distinguished international journalist; Senior Public Policy Fellow\, American University of Beirut; Nieman Journalism Fellow at Harvard University​\nDr. Paul Pillar\, Non-resident fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Studies of Georgetown University; career official in the U.S. Intelligence Community\nMona Yacoubian\, Senior Advisor to the Vice President of Middle East & Africa\, United States Institute of Peace\n\n. \n\n\nRami Khouri \nRami George Khouri is an internationally syndicated political columnist and book author\, Journalist-in-Residence and director of global engagement at the American University of Beirut\, and a non-resident senior fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School.  He was the executive editor of the Beirut-based Daily Star newspaper\, the editor-in-chief of the Jordan Times\, and was awarded the Pax Christi International Peace Prize for 2006. \nHe teaches or lectures annually at the American University of Beirut and Northeastern University.  He has been a fellow and visiting scholar at Harvard\, Mount Holyoke\, Princeton\, Syracuse\, Northeastern\, Villanova\, Oklahoma and Stanford universities. He also serves on the Joint Advisory Board of the Northwestern University Journalism School in Doha\, Qatar. \nHe was general manager of Al Kutba\, Publishers\, in Amman\, Jordan\, where he also served as a consultant to the Jordanian tourism ministry on biblical archaeological sites. He has hosted programs on archaeology\, history and current public affairs on Jordan Television and Radio Jordan\, and often comments on Mideast issues in the international media. \nHe has BA and MSc degrees respectively in political science and mass communications from Syracuse University\, NY\, USA. \nDr. Paul Pillar \nPaul R. Pillar is a non-resident fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Studies of Georgetown University. He is also an Associate Fellow of the Geneva Center for Security Policy. He retired in 2005 from a 28-year career in the U.S. intelligence community\, after which he was visiting professor in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University. His senior government positions included National Intelligence Officer for the Near East and South Asia\, Deputy Chief of the DCI Counterterrorist Center\, and Executive Assistant to the Director of Central Intelligence. He is a Vietnam War veteran and a retired officer in the U.S. Army Reserve. Dr. Pillar received an A.B. summa cum laude from Dartmouth College\, a B.Phil. from Oxford University\, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton University. His books include Negotiating Peace: War Termination as a Bargaining Process (1983)\, Terrorism and U.S. Foreign Policy (2001)\, Intelligence and U.S. Foreign Policy: Iraq\, 9/11\, and Misguided Reform (2011)\, and Why America Misunderstands the World: National Experience and Roots of Misperception (2016). He is a contributing editor of The National Interest. \nMona Yacoubian \nMona Yacoubian is Senior Advisor to the Vice President of Middle East & Africa\, United States Institute of Peace.  She joined the U.S. Institute of Peace after serving as deputy assistant administrator in the Middle East Bureau at USAID from 2014 to 2017\, where she had responsibility for Iraq\, Syria\, Jordan and Lebanon. Prior to joining USAID\, Ms. Yacoubian was a senior advisor at the Stimson Center focusing on the Arab uprisings with an emphasis on Syria. Prior to joining the Stimson Center\, Ms. Yacoubian served as a special advisor on the Middle East at the U.S. Institute of Peace\, where her work focused on Lebanon and Syria as well as broader issues related to democratization in the Arab world. From 1990 to 1998\, Ms. Yacoubian served as the North Africa analyst in the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research. \nMs. Yacoubian was a Fulbright scholar in Syria where she studied Arabic at the University of Damascus from 1985 to 1986. She has held an international affairs fellowship with the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and is currently a CFR member. Ms. Yacoubian earned a master’s degree in public administration from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and a bachelor’s degree from Duke University. \n\n\nTNWAC is launching our Election 2020 global awareness series as we prepare for the Presidential Debate hosted by our partner Belmont University on October 22nd. TNWAC will present interviews and panels with distinguished specialists in international affairs to prepare voters with background and context on the critical issues they should know about the world. TNWAC is a nonpartisan educational organization that seeks to educate the community on global affairs. \nSPONSOR THIS PROGRAM! \nWe invite businesses\, organizations and individuals to sponsor this event. It is through your support that we are able to bring quality global affairs programs to the community. \nYou can enroll for sponsorship through the Eventbrite ticketing below. For information about sponsoring other programs and series of events contact Patrick Ryan\, TNWAC President @ 931-261-2353\, pat@tnwac.org \nSponsorship at the $250.00 level accords you with recognition in program materials — web site\, newsletters and social media — and with acknowledgement at the program start\, as well as admission to the program. Thank you for your support. \nTHANKS TO OUR PARTNERS IN GLOBAL AFFAIRS AWARENESS AND EDUCATION OUTREACH \n \n \nTHANKS TO OUR ELECTION 2020 PROGRAM PARTNERS \n \nTHE MISSION of the nonprofit\, nonpartisan Tennessee World Affairs Council is to promote international awareness\, understanding and connections to enhance the region’s global stature and to prepare Tennesseans to thrive in our increasingly complex and connected world. \nTHE VISION of  the Tennessee World Affairs Council is a well-informed community that thinks critically about the world and the impact of global events. \n\n\nFREE OF CHARGE AND OPEN TO THE COMMUNITY.\nYOUR VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTION APPRECIATED.\n\n*Registration required. Follow EventBrite’s instructions.\nCheck here for guidance on EventBrite process.\nTrouble Registering? Email Pat@TNWAC.org\n\n\n[raw] \n\n \n\n[/raw]
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SUMMARY:Global News Review | Oct 7
DESCRIPTION:Global News Review – October 7\, 2020\n\n\nJoin our team of Ambassador Dick Bowers\, Dr. Breck Walker and LCDR Patrick Ryan for expert analysis of current global developments.\n\nGive Dick\, Breck and Pat 45 minutes and they’ll give you the world. Analysis and entertaining commentary on the top events and issues leading global news reports. Hard to find insights and perspectives from diplomacy\, academia and intelligence\, along with a little fun and your questions. \n\n \nCharles Richard (Dick) Bowers served as the US Ambassador to Bolivia from 1991 through 1994. During that time\, the American Embassy in Bolivia’s capital\, La Paz\, was the largest and most complex U.S. embassy in South America. Ambassador Bowers grew up in the San Francisco Bay area\, attended the University of California\, Berkeley. He entered the U.S. Foreign Service in 1967. From 1961 to 1964 he served in the U.S. Army as a Russian linguist in West Berlin at the height of the Cold War. As a career member of the U.S. diplomatic corps\, Ambassador Bowers served in the U.S. Embassies in Panama\, Poland\, Singapore\, Germany and Bolivia. He retired from the Foreign Service in 1995. Amb Bowers has been a Board Member of the Tennessee World Affairs Council since 2012. \nPatrick Ryan is a native of New York City. He enlisted in the Navy at age 17 and volunteered for submarine duty. He served aboard nuclear fast attack and ballistic missile boats during the Cold War\, rising to the rank of Chief Petty Officer. In 1982 he was commissioned and served aboard a cruiser in the Western Pacific before becoming a Navy Intelligence Officer. Ryan served aboard the carrier Constellation in the Pacific\, the Joint Staff Intelligence Directorate in the Pentagon\, the Center for Naval Analysis\, and the Intelligence Directorate of U.S. Central Command. Ryan retired from the Navy in 1998 and worked as a consultant on Intelligence Community projects and as the VP/COO of the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations. Ryan ran a newsletter publishing business on international affairs from 1999-2016. He founded the Tennessee World Affairs Council in 2007. \nBreck Walker received his PhD in Diplomatic History from Vanderbilt in 2007. His dissertation was on the foreign policy of the Carter administration. He taught at Sewanee\, the University of the South\, 2007-2012\, and on the University of Virginia’s Semester at Sea Program in Spring 2013 and Fall 2015. He worked as a historian in the Historical Office of the Office of Secretary of Defense 2013-2016\, researching and writing a book on early Pentagon cyber policy. Prior to becoming a history professor\, Breck worked for twenty years as an investment banker\, the last ten as co-head of the Corporate Finance Group at J.C. Bradford & Co in Nashville. He has an undergraduate degree from the University of Texas\, and J.D. and M.B.A. degrees from Stanford University. Breck serves as a Member of the Board of Directors of the Tennessee World Affairs Council. \nSPONSOR THIS PROGRAM! \nWe invite businesses\, organizations and individuals to sponsor this event. It is through your support that we are able to bring quality global affairs programs to the community. \nYou can enroll for sponsorship through the Eventbrite ticketing below. For information about sponsoring other programs and series of events contact Patrick Ryan\, TNWAC President @ 931-261-2353\, pat@tnwac.org \nSponsorship at the $250.00 level accords you with recognition in program materials — web site\, newsletters and social media — and with acknowledgement at the program start\, as well as admission to the program. Thank you for your support. \n  \nTHANKS TO OUR PARTNERS IN GLOBAL AFFAIRS AWARENESS AND EDUCATION OUTREACH \n \nTHANKS TO OUR PARTNERS IN GLOBAL AFFAIRS AWARENESS AND EDUCATION OUTREACH \n \nTHE MISSION of the nonprofit\, nonpartisan Tennessee World Affairs Council is to promote international awareness\, understanding and connections to enhance the region’s global stature and to prepare Tennesseans to thrive in our increasingly complex and connected world. \nTHE VISION of  the Tennessee World Affairs Council is a well-informed community that thinks critically about the world and the impact of global events. \n\nFREE OF CHARGE AND OPEN TO THE COMMUNITY.\nYOUR VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTION APPRECIATED.\n\n*Registration required. Follow EventBrite’s instructions.\nCheck here for guidance on EventBrite process.\nTrouble Registering? Email Pat@TNWAC.org\n\n[raw] \n\n \n\n[/raw]
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SUMMARY:TNWAC International Careers and Jobs Panel | Oct 8
DESCRIPTION:All students from all schools and all young professionals are welcome.\n\n\n\nIn Association with Belmont University Center for International Business\, Lipscomb University\, Tennessee Technological University\, the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce and Nashville Global Young Professionals\nInternational Careers and Jobs Panel\nWorking in the World\nOctober 8\, 2020\n6:30-8:00 pm Eastern Time / 5:30-7:00 pm Central Time\n\n\nJoin our panel of professionals who have lived and worked abroad or work in global affairs fields.\n\n\nChair: Dr. Susan Haynes\, PhD; Assistant Professor of Political Science\, Lipscomb University\nAmanda Knarr\, Global Account Manager\, Forrester Research (Confirmed)\nLindsay L. Rodman\, Executive Director\, The Leadership Council on Women in National Security (LCWINS); Adjunct Senior Fellow\, Center for a New American Security (CNAS); United States Marine Reserve JAG (Confirmed)\nDaniela Segovia\, Coordinator\, NGO Magnolia Foundation for Peace & Wellness (Confirmed)\nFrancine Uenuma\, Humanitarian Assistance Advisor to the Military with the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (Confirmed)\nNancy Youssef\, Chief Business Development Officer\, Soles4Souls\, Nashville (Confirmed)\n\nProgram Note: \nThis program is set for 90 minutes. Professor Haynes will chair a series of remarks from the panelists and questions and answers for one hour. The panelists will then each host follow on conversations in Zoom breakout rooms for 30 minutes. \n\n\nSusan Haynes \nSusan Turner Haynes joined Lipscomb University as an assistant professor in 2015. Prior to her doctorate\, Haynes was selected as a Public Policy and Nuclear Threat (PPNT) fellow at the University of California\, San Diego. Haynes research specializes in Chinese nuclear strategy (Chinese Nuclear Proliferation: How Global Politics is Transforming China’s Weapons Modernization\, 2016). In addition\, Haynes has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals\, including Asian Perspectives\, Asian Security\, PS: Political Science and Politics\, Strategic Studies Quarterly\, The Nonproliferation Review\, and Comparative Strategy. She has also authored chapters in the Ashgate Research Companion on Chinese Foreign Policy\, and has a chapter in the forthcoming Routledge volume on Nuclear Modernization. Haynes has been invited to present her research at the Department of Defense Strategic Multilayer Assessment Group and at the Air War College. Haynes is a member of the International Studies Association and American Political Science Association and serves as a board member for the Tennessee World Affairs Council (TNWAC). She serves as sponsor of the Lipscomb Model UN club and co-sponsor of the political science honor society\, Pi Sigma Alpha. \nAmanda Knarr \nAmanda Knarr recently moved to Nashville from Washington\, DC. She is enjoying her role as a global account manager at Forrester Research\, a market research and consulting company. Previously\, Amanda led the Western Hemisphere for the Business Council for International Understanding (BCIU)\, a nonpartisan\, U.S.-based organization that works to expand international trade and commerce. Ms. Knarr has been responsible for creating partnerships between business and U.S. government agencies on foreign policy initiatives. She has worked extensively with U.S. and foreign government departments and agencies- both federal and local. International affairs is in her blood and she is an alum of the United Nations\, the U.S. Government\, the Government of the Republic of Chile\, multiple internationally-focused think tanks and nonprofits. She received a Masters of Arts from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University specializing in International Political Economy. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and International Relations from Washington & Jefferson College. \nLindsay L. Rodman \nLindsay L. Rodman is the Executive Director of LCWINS. She began her career as an associate at Arnold & Porter LLP. She then joined the Marine Corps and served as a judge advocate for eight years on active duty in various assignments including deployment to Afghanistan\, serving as Deputy Legal Counsel to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff\, and selection as a White House Fellow\, placed at the National Security Council. After transitioning into the Reserves\, Lindsay became a political appointee in the Pentagon\, serving first as the Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel & Readiness and then as the Senior Advisor\, International Humanitarian Policy in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy. Prior to joining LCWINS\, Lindsay was selected as the Council on Foreign Relations’ inaugural International Affairs Fellow in Canada\, where she lived for two years\, and then served as Executive Vice President for Communications and Legal Strategy at Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. Lindsay remains an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve. She is a graduate of Harvard Law School\, the Kennedy School\, and Duke University. \nDaniela Segovia \nA foreign policy analyst and international cooperation consultant\, Daniela Segovia is a Venezuelan former diplomat\, political scientist by training and a policy-maker. Segovia is part of Magnolia Foundation for Peace & Wellness\, where she focuses on advocacy\, public relations and partnerships to support programs\, and assist the victims of the Colombian conflict. Throughout the past 15 years\, she has held diverse positions in the global governance arena\, being her primary focus of expertise democracy\, migration and human rights in Latin America. For her initiatives defending refugees & migrants´ human rights\, she was selected as a Policy Leader Fellow (2018) at the School of Transnational Governance (SGT) at the European University Institute located in Florence\, Italy; and as an Eisenhower Fellow and Carnegie New Leader (2019) in the United States. Segovia is also a columnist on international politics for the Mexican news agency Subrayado.mx\, contributes to the Women in Foreign Affairs platform\, and contributes to the Women in International Affairs Network as a mentor. Her previous experience includes the UN Leadership Program (Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean); the Doctoral School of Latin American\, European and Comparative Regionalism (Andean University Simon Bolívar / United Nations University); and a doctoral research in Global Governance (Organization of American States / Andes University in Colombia). She holds a BA in Political Science (Central University of Venezuela)\, a MA in History of the Americas (Catholic University Andrés Bello); and a Master in Careers in International Organizations (University of Granada). \nFrancine Uenuma \n\n\n\n\nFrancine Uenuma is a Humanitarian Assistance Advisor to the Military with the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA)\, advising on issues of shared concern including displacement and the provision of humanitarian aid during conflict-related and natural disasters. After joining USAID at the beginning of 2016\, she served as Civil-Military Affairs Coordinator for Syria and Iraq on USAID’s Response Management Team and Disaster Assistance Response Team. Before joining USAID\, she was Director of Media Relations and Communications for disaster and humanitarian response at Save the Children\, focusing primarily on the Syria regional response in Washington\, D.C. and in Lebanon\, northern Iraq\, Jordan\, Greece\, and Serbia. She worked with national and international press to facilitate site visits and provide spokesperson interviews in both sudden-onset and chronic emergency settings. Prior to Save the Children\, she spent a year in Afghanistan for the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF). Francine previously worked in journalism\, including as a a digital news editor at the PBS NewsHour and multimedia producer at The Washington Post. She has a B.S. in Foreign Service (International History) from Georgetown University. \n\n\n\n\nNancy Youssef \nMs. Nancy Youssef currently serves as Chief Business Development Officer for Soles 4 Souls\, a not for profit social enterprise based in Nashville\, TN. Ms. Youssef is also founder and President of award winning Curves with Purpose\, a women’s e-commerce marketplace celebrating shape diversity\, and disrupting the cycle of poverty through charitable partnerships. Youssef is an adjunct professor of Fashion Entrepreneurship at Belmont University. Ms. Youssef served as senior vice president\, international business development for Canton\, MA-based Destination XL group\, the largest omni-channel specialty retailer of big and tall men’s apparel. Prior to joining Destination XL\, Youssef was vice president\, international business development for NYSE-listed Genesco\, Inc. where she pioneered the Fortune 1000 footwear and apparel retailer’s portfolio of brands outside the U.S. In this role she successfully directed the entry of the Fortune 1000 company into more than two dozen countries around the world and was pivotal in acquisitions\, partnerships and licensing relationships. Prior to that\, she served as senior brand manager for interactive multichannel retailer HSN\, Inc. and has led business development for fashion apparel and accessories importer and distributor SAS-Egypt. Ms. Youssef earned her B.S. in Marketing from The Pennsylvania State University with focuses in Accounting\, French & International Studies. Ms. Youssef completed a diploma in International Fashion Design studies at the Instituto Marangoni in Milan\, Italy which gave her the opportunity to become fluent in her fifth language\, adding Italian to Arabic\, English\, French and Spanish. Ms. Youssef serves as a director for Siloam Healthcare\, the Nashville Chamber of Commerce International Business Council\, Belmont University College of International Business\, Nashville Mayor’s Advisory Council for Minority and Women Owned Businesses and Nashville Mayor’s Advisory Council for New Americans. \nSPONSOR THIS PROGRAM! \nWe invite businesses\, organizations and individuals to sponsor this event. It is through your support that we are able to bring quality global affairs programs to the community. \nYou can enroll for sponsorship through the Eventbrite ticketing below. For information about sponsoring other programs and series of events contact Patrick Ryan\, TNWAC President @ 931-261-2353\, pat@tnwac.org \nSponsorship at the $250.00 level accords you with recognition in program materials — web site\, newsletters and social media — and with acknowledgement at the program start\, as well as admission to the program. Thank you for your support. \nOPEN TO ALL\nYOUR VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTION APPRECIATED\n\n*Registration required. Follow EventBrite’s instructions.\nCheck here for guidance on EventBrite process.\nTrouble Registering? Email Pat@TNWAC.org\n\n\nTHANKS TO OUR PARTNERS IN GLOBAL AFFAIRS AWARENESS AND EDUCATION OUTREACH \n \n \nTHE MISSION of the nonprofit\, nonpartisan Tennessee World Affairs Council is to promote international awareness\, understanding and connections to enhance the region’s global stature and to prepare Tennesseans to thrive in our increasingly complex and connected world. \nTHE VISION of  the Tennessee World Affairs Council is a well-informed community that thinks critically about the world and the impact of global events. \n\n\n[raw] \n\n \n\n[/raw]
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SUMMARY:Global News Review | Oct 14
DESCRIPTION:Global News Review – October 14\, 2020\n\n\nJoin our team of Ambassador Dick Bowers\, Dr. Breck Walker and LCDR Patrick Ryan for expert analysis of current global developments.\nThis week we’re joined by David Plazas\, the Opinion and Engagement Director for the USA TODAY Network newsrooms in Tennessee and The Tennessean where he serves an editorial writer\, opinion columnist\, op-ed editor and an editorial board member. \n\nGive Dick\, Breck and Pat 45 minutes and they’ll give you the world. Analysis and entertaining commentary on the top events and issues leading global news reports. Hard to find insights and perspectives from diplomacy\, academia and intelligence\, along with a little fun and your questions. \n \n  \nGuest Host David Plazas \nDavid Plazas is the Opinion and Engagement Director for the USA TODAY Network Tennessee. He works as an editorial writer\, opinion columnist\, op-ed editor and an editorial board member. He oversees the opinion team for The Tennessean in Nashville\, The Knoxville News-Sentinel and The Memphis Commercial Appeal and frequently moderates community conversations and statewide and local political and policy debates. \nHe is an award-winning journalist who wrote an acclaimed series on affordable housing\, “The Costs of Growth in Nashville” (2017)\, and leads a statewide campaign\, “Civility Tennessee” (starting in 2018)\, to encourage\, promote and practice civil discourse and effective citizenship. He was part of the team of the award-winning “Dismissed” series\, examining inequities in the Nashville public schools\, and during the 2019-20 school year\, he served as a volunteer reading buddy to a Kindergartner at Buena Vista Elementary in North Nashville. He has worked on multiple national projects for parent company Gannett most recently the Table Stakes challenge. As a coach\, he worked with the Louisville Courier Journal\, which won a Pulitzer Prize for its politics coverage in 2020. \nIn March 2020\, as the COVID-19 pandemic cancelled events and forced many employees to work from home\, he created and launched the Tennessee Voices videocast\, a show focused on connecting the community with thinkers\, creators\, innovators and leaders who have written op-eds in the Tennessee network’s publications. \nHe started his career at The News-Press in Fort Myers\, Florida\, where he worked as a reporter\, Spanish-language community editor\, opinion editor and digital team leader. He holds a B.A. in political science and Spanish and an M.S. in Journalism from Northwestern University in Evanston\, Illinois\, and an M.B.A. with a focus on marketing from Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Myers. He is a longtime mentor of young journalists. \nOn a personal note\, he has run a marathon\, gave his first TED Talks in September 2020 and had become a good cook. \nCharles Richard (Dick) Bowers served as the US Ambassador to Bolivia from 1991 through 1994. During that time\, the American Embassy in Bolivia’s capital\, La Paz\, was the largest and most complex U.S. embassy in South America. Ambassador Bowers grew up in the San Francisco Bay area\, attended the University of California\, Berkeley. He entered the U.S. Foreign Service in 1967. From 1961 to 1964 he served in the U.S. Army as a Russian linguist in West Berlin at the height of the Cold War. As a career member of the U.S. diplomatic corps\, Ambassador Bowers served in the U.S. Embassies in Panama\, Poland\, Singapore\, Germany and Bolivia. He retired from the Foreign Service in 1995. Amb Bowers has been a Board Member of the Tennessee World Affairs Council since 2012. \nPatrick Ryan is a native of New York City. He enlisted in the Navy at age 17 and volunteered for submarine duty. He served aboard nuclear fast attack and ballistic missile boats during the Cold War\, rising to the rank of Chief Petty Officer. In 1982 he was commissioned and served aboard a cruiser in the Western Pacific before becoming a Navy Intelligence Officer. Ryan served aboard the carrier Constellation in the Pacific\, the Joint Staff Intelligence Directorate in the Pentagon\, the Center for Naval Analysis\, and the Intelligence Directorate of U.S. Central Command. Ryan retired from the Navy in 1998 and worked as a consultant on Intelligence Community projects and as the VP/COO of the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations. Ryan ran a newsletter publishing business on international affairs from 1999-2016. He founded the Tennessee World Affairs Council in 2007. \nBreck Walker received his PhD in Diplomatic History from Vanderbilt in 2007. His dissertation was on the foreign policy of the Carter administration. He taught at Sewanee\, the University of the South\, 2007-2012\, and on the University of Virginia’s Semester at Sea Program in Spring 2013 and Fall 2015. He worked as a historian in the Historical Office of the Office of Secretary of Defense 2013-2016\, researching and writing a book on early Pentagon cyber policy. Prior to becoming a history professor\, Breck worked for twenty years as an investment banker\, the last ten as co-head of the Corporate Finance Group at J.C. Bradford & Co in Nashville. He has an undergraduate degree from the University of Texas\, and J.D. and M.B.A. degrees from Stanford University. Breck serves as a Member of the Board of Directors of the Tennessee World Affairs Council. \nSPONSOR THIS PROGRAM! \nWe invite businesses\, organizations and individuals to sponsor this event. It is through your support that we are able to bring quality global affairs programs to the community. \nYou can enroll for sponsorship through the Eventbrite ticketing below. For information about sponsoring other programs and series of events contact Patrick Ryan\, TNWAC President @ 931-261-2353\, pat@tnwac.org \nSponsorship at the $250.00 level accords you with recognition in program materials — web site\, newsletters and social media — and with acknowledgement at the program start\, as well as admission to the program. Thank you for your support. \n  \nTHANKS TO OUR PARTNERS IN GLOBAL AFFAIRS AWARENESS AND EDUCATION OUTREACH \n \nTHANKS TO OUR PARTNERS IN GLOBAL AFFAIRS AWARENESS AND EDUCATION OUTREACH \n \nTHE MISSION of the nonprofit\, nonpartisan Tennessee World Affairs Council is to promote international awareness\, understanding and connections to enhance the region’s global stature and to prepare Tennesseans to thrive in our increasingly complex and connected world. \nTHE VISION of  the Tennessee World Affairs Council is a well-informed community that thinks critically about the world and the impact of global events. \n\nFREE OF CHARGE AND OPEN TO THE COMMUNITY.\nYOUR VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTION APPRECIATED.\n\n*Registration required. Follow EventBrite’s instructions.\nCheck here for guidance on EventBrite process.\nTrouble Registering? Email Pat@TNWAC.org\n\n\n[raw] \n\n \n\n[/raw]
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SUMMARY:ELECTION 2020: America's Place in the World Pt One | Oct 15
DESCRIPTION:In Association with UpState International World Affaris Council\, World Affairs Council of Harrisburg\, Belmont University and the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce present\n\n\n\n\n\nAmerica’s Place in the World\n\n\nChair: Professor Thomas Schwartz\, Distinguished Professor of History\, Vanderbilt University\nGeneral John Allen\, President\, Brookings; former Commander NATO International Security Assistance Force\, Afghanistan\nDr. Jessica Tuchman Matthews\, Ph.D.\, Distinguished Fellow\, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She served as Carnegie’s president for 18 years.\n\n\nTNWAC is launching our Election 2020 global awareness series as we prepare for the Presidential Debate hosted by our partner Belmont University on October 22nd. \nTNWAC presents interviews and panels with distinguished specialists in international affairs to prepare voters with background and context on the critical issues they should know about the world. \nTNWAC is a nonpartisan educational organization that seeks to educate the community on global affairs. \nAmerica’s Place in the World\nThese questions may be among those to start things off\, plus your questions. \n\nThe U.S. relationship with China has emerged as one of the most prominent issues in the current presidential campaign. What are your thoughts on how American policy toward China should evolve over the next five to ten years? Are we competitors\, rivals\, or enemies?\nThe next administration will almost certainly face the question of the future of US policy toward Iran. Do you favor returning to the JCPOA\, or should a new agreement be negotiated?\nIf Biden wins the election\, can the United States resume its role in international organizations like the WHO and return to agreements like the Paris climate accords\, or has there been significant change in how the United States is perceived that would preclude such a restoration?\nIn the wake of the poisoning of Alexei Navalny\, and continued interference in the American elections\, is there a way forward for the US relationship with Russia under a Biden Administration? What should US policy toward Russia seek to accomplish?\nIf\, as Richard Haass has remarked\, that foreign policy begins at home\, how can or should a new presidential administration seek to rebuild the basis of domestic support for an engaged and active American foreign policy?\nIn what ways will advances in technology – AI\, quantum computing\, etc. – affect 21st century diplomacy and international engagement?\nGiven the various disputes between the United States and its European allies\, most notably over the Nord Stream pipeline and policy toward Iran and China\, is there a future for the NATO alliance?\nWhat are the greatest challenges that America faces in its foreign policy over the next five to ten years?\n\nSend your questions in advance to: info@tnwac.org \nThomas Schwartz \nThomas Alan Schwartz is a historian of the foreign relations of the United States\, with related interests in American politics\, the history of international relations\, Modern European history\, and biography. His most recent book is “Henry Kissinger and American Power: A Political Biography” (Hill and Wang\, 2020). The book has received considerable notice and acclaim. Harvard’s University’s Charles Maier has written: “Thomas Schwartz’s superbly researched political biography reveals the brilliance\, self-serving ego\, and vulnerability of America’s most remarkable diplomat in the twentieth century\, even as it provides a history of U.S. engagement in global politics as it moved beyond bipolarity.” Earlier in his career\, Schwartz was the author of America’s Germany: John J. McCloy and the Federal Republic of Germany (Harvard\, 1991)\, which was translated into German\, Die Atlantik Brücke (Ullstein\, 1992). This book received the Stuart Bernath Book Prize of the Society of American Foreign Relations\, and the Harry S. Truman Book Award\, given by the Truman Presidential Library. He is also the author of Lyndon Johnson and Europe: In the Shadow of Vietnam (Harvard\, 2003)\, which examined the Johnson Administration’s policy toward Europe and assessed the impact of the war in Vietnam on its other foreign policy objectives. He is the co-editor with Matthias Schulz of The Strained Alliance: U.S.-European Relations from Nixon to Carter\, (Cambridge University Press\, 2009).  \nProfessor Schwartz has held fellowships from the Social Science Research Council\, the German Historical Society\, the Norwegian Nobel Institute\, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars\, and the Center for the Study of European Integration. He has served as President of the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations. He served on the United States Department of State’s Historical Advisory Committee as the representative of the Organization of American Historians from 2005-2008. Professor Schwartz received The Madison Sarratt Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching on April 3\, 2013 at the Spring Faculty Assembly\, Vanderbilt University. In 2008 Professor Schwartz received the Annual Alumni Education Award from the Vanderbilt Alumni Association. Schwartz is the recipient of the 2008 Book Award by Chi Chapter of the Kappa Alpha Order. This award is given to a faculty member who has been particularly influential in the lives and education of members of KAO. Professor Schwartz presented\, “The Arab Spring: Revolution in the Middle East\,” on April 19\, 2011\, as part of the Samuel L. Shannon Distinguished Lecture Series at Tennessee State University. Professor Schwartz has also presented lectures for the OAH Distinguished Lecturers Program. \nJohn Allen \nJohn Rutherford Allen assumed the presidency of the Brookings Institution in November 2017\, having most recently served as chair of security and strategy and a distinguished fellow in the Foreign Policy Program at Brookings. Allen is a retired U.S. Marine Corps four-star general and former commander of the NATO International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and U.S. Forces in Afghanistan. He is the co-author of the book “Turning Point: Policymaking in the Era of Artificial Intelligence” alongside co-author Darrell M. West (Brookings Press\, 2020)” \nAllen served in two senior diplomatic roles following his retirement from the Marine Corps. First\, for 15 months as senior advisor to the secretary of defense on Middle East Security\, during which he led the security dialogue for the Israeli/Palestinian peace process. President Barack Obama then appointed Allen as special presidential envoy to the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL\, a position he held for 15 months. Allen’s diplomatic efforts grew the coalition to 65 members\, effectively halting the expansion of ISIL. In recognition of this work\, he was presented the Department of State Distinguished Honor Award by Secretary John Kerry and the Director of National Intelligence Distinguished Public Service Award by Director James Clapper. \nDuring his nearly four-decade military career\, Allen served in a variety of command and staff positions in the Marine Corps and the Joint Force. He commanded 150\,000 U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan from July 2011 to February 2013. Allen is the first Marine to command a theater of war. During his tenure as ISAF commander\, he recovered the 33\,000 U.S. surge forces\, moved the Afghan National Security Forces into the lead for combat operations\, and pivoted NATO forces from being a conventional combat force into an advisory command. \nAllen’s first tour as a general officer was as the principal director of Asia-Pacific policy in the Office of the Secretary of Defense\, a position he held for nearly three years. In this assignment\, he was involved extensively with policy initiatives involving China\, Taiwan\, Mongolia\, and Southeast Asia. Allen also participated in the Six Party Talks on the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and played a major role in organizing the relief effort during the South Asian tsunami from 2004 to 2005. \nBeyond his operational and diplomatic credentials\, Allen has led professional military educational programs\, including as director of the Marine Infantry Officer Program and commanding officer of the Marine Corps Basic School. He twice served at the United States Naval Academy\, first as a military instructor\, where he was named instructor of the year in 1990\, and later as commandant of midshipmen; the first Marine Corps officer to hold this position. Allen was the Marine Corps fellow to the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the first Marine officer to serve as a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations\, where today he is a permanent member. \nAmong his other affiliations\, Allen is a senior fellow at the Merrill Center of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a senior fellow at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory. He is an “Ancien” of the NATO Defense College in Rome\, and a frequent lecturer there. Allen is the recipient of numerous U.S. and foreign awards. \nHe holds a Bachelor of Science in operations analysis from the U.S. Naval Academy\, a Master of Arts in national security studies from Georgetown University\, a Master of Science in strategic intelligence from the Defense Intelligence College\, and a Master of Science in national security strategy from the National Defense University. \nJessica Tuchman Matthews \nJessica Tuchman Mathews is a distinguished fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She served as Carnegie’s president for 18 years. \nBefore her appointment in 1997\, her career included posts in both the executive and legislative branches of government\, in management and research in the nonprofit arena\, and in journalism and science policy. \nShe was director of the Council on Foreign Relations’ Washington program and a senior fellow from 1994 to 1997. While there she published her seminal 1997 Foreign Affairs article\, “Power Shift\,” chosen by the editors as one of the most influential in the journal’s seventy-five years. \nFrom 1982 to 1993\, she was founding vice president and director of research of the World Resources Institute\, an internationally known center for policy research on environmental and natural resource management issues. \nShe served on the Editorial Board of the Washington Post from 1980 to 1982\, covering arms control\, energy\, environment\, science\, and technology. Later\, Mathews wrote a popular weekly column for the Washington Post that appeared nationwide and in the International Herald Tribune. \nFrom 1977 to 1979\, she was director of the Office of Global Issues at the National Security Council\, covering nuclear proliferation\, conventional arms sales\, and human rights. In 1993\, she returned to government as deputy to the undersecretary of state for global affairs. Earlier\, she served on the staff of the Committee on Energy and the Environment of the Interior Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives. \nMathews is a member of the Harvard Corporation\, the senior governing board of Harvard University. She has served as a trustee of leading national and international nonprofits\, including the Nuclear Threat Initiative\, Radcliffe College\, the Inter-American Dialogue (co-vice chair)\, four foundations (the Rockefeller Foundation\, Rockefeller Brothers Fund\, the Century Foundation\, and the Joyce Foundation)\, and the Brookings Institution. She co-founded the Surface Transportation Policy Project\, has served on study groups at the National Academy of Sciences\, and is an elected fellow of the American Philosophical Society. Since 2001 she has served as a director of SomaLogic\, a leading biotech firm in the breakthrough field of proteomics. She is also a director of HanesBrands Inc. and a member of the governing board of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. \nMathews has published widely in newspapers and in foreign policy and scientific journals\, and has co-authored and co-edited three books. She holds a PhD in molecular biology from the California Institute of Technology and graduated magna cum laude from Radcliffe College. \nSPONSOR THIS PROGRAM! \nWe invite businesses\, organizations and individuals to sponsor this event. It is through your support that we are able to bring quality global affairs programs to the community. \nYou can enroll for sponsorship through the Eventbrite ticketing below. For information about sponsoring other programs and series of events contact Patrick Ryan\, TNWAC President @ 931-261-2353\, pat@tnwac.org \nSponsorship at the $250.00 level accords you with recognition in program materials — web site\, newsletters and social media — and with acknowledgement at the program start\, as well as admission to the program. Thank you for your support. \nOPEN TO ALL\nYOUR VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTION APPRECIATED\n\n*Registration required. Follow EventBrite’s instructions.\nCheck here for guidance on EventBrite process.\nTrouble Registering? Email Pat@TNWAC.org\n\n\nTHANKS TO OUR PARTNERS IN GLOBAL AFFAIRS AWARENESS AND EDUCATION OUTREACH \n \n \nTHANKS TO OUR ELECTION 2020 PROGRAM PARTNERS \n \nTHE MISSION of the nonprofit\, nonpartisan Tennessee World Affairs Council is to promote international awareness\, understanding and connections to enhance the region’s global stature and to prepare Tennesseans to thrive in our increasingly complex and connected world. \nTHE VISION of  the Tennessee World Affairs Council is a well-informed community that thinks critically about the world and the impact of global events. \n\n\n[raw] \n\n \n\n[/raw]
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SUMMARY:Global News Review | Oct 21
DESCRIPTION:Global News Review – October 21\, 2020\n\n\nJoin our team of Ambassador Dick Bowers\, Dr. Breck Walker and LCDR Patrick Ryan for expert analysis of current global developments.\nTOPICS FOR OCTOBER 21ST \n\n1 – Mexico: Don’t Drink the Water\n2 – The Uighurs and Global Human Rights\n3 – Presidential Debates and International Affairs\n\nGive Dick\, Breck and Pat 45 minutes and they’ll give you the world. Analysis and entertaining commentary on the top events and issues leading global news reports. Hard to find insights and perspectives from diplomacy\, academia and intelligence\, along with a little fun and your questions. \n \nCharles Richard (Dick) Bowers served as the US Ambassador to Bolivia from 1991 through 1994. During that time\, the American Embassy in Bolivia’s capital\, La Paz\, was the largest and most complex U.S. embassy in South America. Ambassador Bowers grew up in the San Francisco Bay area\, attended the University of California\, Berkeley. He entered the U.S. Foreign Service in 1967. From 1961 to 1964 he served in the U.S. Army as a Russian linguist in West Berlin at the height of the Cold War. As a career member of the U.S. diplomatic corps\, Ambassador Bowers served in the U.S. Embassies in Panama\, Poland\, Singapore\, Germany and Bolivia. He retired from the Foreign Service in 1995. Amb Bowers has been a Board Member of the Tennessee World Affairs Council since 2012. \nPatrick Ryan is a native of New York City. He enlisted in the Navy at age 17 and volunteered for submarine duty. He served aboard nuclear fast attack and ballistic missile boats during the Cold War\, rising to the rank of Chief Petty Officer. In 1982 he was commissioned and served aboard a cruiser in the Western Pacific before becoming a Navy Intelligence Officer. Ryan served aboard the carrier Constellation in the Pacific\, the Joint Staff Intelligence Directorate in the Pentagon\, the Center for Naval Analysis\, and the Intelligence Directorate of U.S. Central Command. Ryan retired from the Navy in 1998 and worked as a consultant on Intelligence Community projects and as the VP/COO of the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations. Ryan ran a newsletter publishing business on international affairs from 1999-2016. He founded the Tennessee World Affairs Council in 2007. \nBreck Walker received his PhD in Diplomatic History from Vanderbilt in 2007. His dissertation was on the foreign policy of the Carter administration. He taught at Sewanee\, the University of the South\, 2007-2012\, and on the University of Virginia’s Semester at Sea Program in Spring 2013 and Fall 2015. He worked as a historian in the Historical Office of the Office of Secretary of Defense 2013-2016\, researching and writing a book on early Pentagon cyber policy. Prior to becoming a history professor\, Breck worked for twenty years as an investment banker\, the last ten as co-head of the Corporate Finance Group at J.C. Bradford & Co in Nashville. He has an undergraduate degree from the University of Texas\, and J.D. and M.B.A. degrees from Stanford University. Breck serves as a Member of the Board of Directors of the Tennessee World Affairs Council. \nSPONSOR THIS PROGRAM! \nWe invite businesses\, organizations and individuals to sponsor this event. It is through your support that we are able to bring quality global affairs programs to the community. \nYou can enroll for sponsorship through the Eventbrite ticketing below. For information about sponsoring other programs and series of events contact Patrick Ryan\, TNWAC President @ 931-261-2353\, pat@tnwac.org \nSponsorship at the $250.00 level accords you with recognition in program materials — web site\, newsletters and social media — and with acknowledgement at the program start\, as well as admission to the program. Thank you for your support. \n  \nTHANKS TO OUR PARTNERS IN GLOBAL AFFAIRS AWARENESS AND EDUCATION OUTREACH \n \nTHANKS TO OUR PARTNERS IN GLOBAL AFFAIRS AWARENESS AND EDUCATION OUTREACH \nTHE MISSION of the nonprofit\, nonpartisan Tennessee World Affairs Council is to promote international awareness\, understanding and connections to enhance the region’s global stature and to prepare Tennesseans to thrive in our increasingly complex and connected world. \nTHE VISION of  the Tennessee World Affairs Council is a well-informed community that thinks critically about the world and the impact of global events. \n \n\nFREE OF CHARGE AND OPEN TO THE COMMUNITY.\nYOUR VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTION APPRECIATED.\n\n*Registration required. Follow EventBrite’s instructions.\nCheck here for guidance on EventBrite process.\nTrouble Registering? Email Pat@TNWAC.org\n\n\n[raw] \n\n \n\n[/raw]
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SUMMARY:Global News Review | Oct 28
DESCRIPTION:Global News Review – October 28\, 2020\n\n\nJoin our team of Ambassador Dick Bowers\, Dr. Breck Walker and LCDR Patrick Ryan for expert analysis of current global developments.\n\nGive Dick\, Breck and Pat 45 minutes and they’ll give you the world. Analysis and entertaining commentary on the top events and issues leading global news reports. Hard to find insights and perspectives from diplomacy\, academia and intelligence\, along with a little fun and your questions. \n \nCharles Richard (Dick) Bowers served as the US Ambassador to Bolivia from 1991 through 1994. During that time\, the American Embassy in Bolivia’s capital\, La Paz\, was the largest and most complex U.S. embassy in South America. Ambassador Bowers grew up in the San Francisco Bay area\, attended the University of California\, Berkeley. He entered the U.S. Foreign Service in 1967. From 1961 to 1964 he served in the U.S. Army as a Russian linguist in West Berlin at the height of the Cold War. As a career member of the U.S. diplomatic corps\, Ambassador Bowers served in the U.S. Embassies in Panama\, Poland\, Singapore\, Germany and Bolivia. He retired from the Foreign Service in 1995. Amb Bowers has been a Board Member of the Tennessee World Affairs Council since 2012. \nPatrick Ryan is a native of New York City. He enlisted in the Navy at age 17 and volunteered for submarine duty. He served aboard nuclear fast attack and ballistic missile boats during the Cold War\, rising to the rank of Chief Petty Officer. In 1982 he was commissioned and served aboard a cruiser in the Western Pacific before becoming a Navy Intelligence Officer. Ryan served aboard the carrier Constellation in the Pacific\, the Joint Staff Intelligence Directorate in the Pentagon\, the Center for Naval Analysis\, and the Intelligence Directorate of U.S. Central Command. Ryan retired from the Navy in 1998 and worked as a consultant on Intelligence Community projects and as the VP/COO of the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations. Ryan ran a newsletter publishing business on international affairs from 1999-2016. He founded the Tennessee World Affairs Council in 2007. \nBreck Walker received his PhD in Diplomatic History from Vanderbilt in 2007. His dissertation was on the foreign policy of the Carter administration. He taught at Sewanee\, the University of the South\, 2007-2012\, and on the University of Virginia’s Semester at Sea Program in Spring 2013 and Fall 2015. He worked as a historian in the Historical Office of the Office of Secretary of Defense 2013-2016\, researching and writing a book on early Pentagon cyber policy. Prior to becoming a history professor\, Breck worked for twenty years as an investment banker\, the last ten as co-head of the Corporate Finance Group at J.C. Bradford & Co in Nashville. He has an undergraduate degree from the University of Texas\, and J.D. and M.B.A. degrees from Stanford University. Breck serves as a Member of the Board of Directors of the Tennessee World Affairs Council. \nSPONSOR THIS PROGRAM! \nWe invite businesses\, organizations and individuals to sponsor this event. It is through your support that we are able to bring quality global affairs programs to the community. \nYou can enroll for sponsorship through the Eventbrite ticketing below. For information about sponsoring other programs and series of events contact Patrick Ryan\, TNWAC President @ 931-261-2353\, pat@tnwac.org \nSponsorship at the $250.00 level accords you with recognition in program materials — web site\, newsletters and social media — and with acknowledgement at the program start\, as well as admission to the program. Thank you for your support. \n  \nTHANKS TO OUR PARTNERS IN GLOBAL AFFAIRS AWARENESS AND EDUCATION OUTREACH \n \n \nTHE MISSION of the nonprofit\, nonpartisan Tennessee World Affairs Council is to promote international awareness\, understanding and connections to enhance the region’s global stature and to prepare Tennesseans to thrive in our increasingly complex and connected world. \nTHE VISION of  the Tennessee World Affairs Council is a well-informed community that thinks critically about the world and the impact of global events. \n\nFREE OF CHARGE AND OPEN TO THE COMMUNITY.\nYOUR VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTION APPRECIATED.\n\n*Registration required. Follow EventBrite’s instructions.\nCheck here for guidance on EventBrite process.\nTrouble Registering? Email Pat@TNWAC.org\n\n\n[raw] \n\n \n\n[/raw]
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SUMMARY:ELECTION 2020: America's Place in the World | Pt Two
DESCRIPTION:.\n.\n\nIn Association with the World Affairs Council of Harrisburg\, Belmont University’s Center for International Business and the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce\n.\n.\n\n.\n.\n\n\n\n.\n\n\n\nChair: Professor Thomas Schwartz\, Distinguished Professor of History\, Vanderbilt University\nAmbassador John Kornblum\, U.S. Foreign Service (Ret)\,  Former U.S. Ambassador to Germany (Confirmed)\nAmbassador Thomas Pickering\, Distinguished Fellow\, U.S. Foreign Service (Ret)\,  Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations\, to Russia\, to India\, to Israel\, to El Salvador\, to Nigeria\, and to Jordan (Confirmed)\n\nOctober 29\, 2020\n6:30-8:00 pm Eastern Time / 5:30-7:00 pm Central Time\n\nTNWAC is launching our Election 2020 global awareness series as we prepare for the Presidential Debate hosted by our partner Belmont University on October 22nd. \nTNWAC presents interviews and panels with distinguished specialists in international affairs to prepare voters with background and context on the critical issues they should know about the world. \nTNWAC is a nonpartisan educational organization that seeks to educate the community on global affairs. \nThomas Schwartz \nThomas Alan Schwartz is a historian of the foreign relations of the United States\, with related interests in American politics\, the history of international relations\, Modern European history\, and biography. His most recent book is “Henry Kissinger and American Power: A Political Biography” (Hill and Wang\, 2020). The book has received considerable notice and acclaim. Harvard’s University’s Charles Maier has written: “Thomas Schwartz’s superbly researched political biography reveals the brilliance\, self-serving ego\, and vulnerability of America’s most remarkable diplomat in the twentieth century\, even as it provides a history of U.S. engagement in global politics as it moved beyond bipolarity.” Earlier in his career\, Schwartz was the author of America’s Germany: John J. McCloy and the Federal Republic of Germany (Harvard\, 1991)\, which was translated into German\, Die Atlantik Brücke (Ullstein\, 1992). This book received the Stuart Bernath Book Prize of the Society of American Foreign Relations\, and the Harry S. Truman Book Award\, given by the Truman Presidential Library. He is also the author of Lyndon Johnson and Europe: In the Shadow of Vietnam (Harvard\, 2003)\, which examined the Johnson Administration’s policy toward Europe and assessed the impact of the war in Vietnam on its other foreign policy objectives. He is the co-editor with Matthias Schulz of The Strained Alliance: U.S.-European Relations from Nixon to Carter\, (Cambridge University Press\, 2009).  \nProfessor Schwartz has held fellowships from the Social Science Research Council\, the German Historical Society\, the Norwegian Nobel Institute\, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars\, and the Center for the Study of European Integration. He has served as President of the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations. He served on the United States Department of State’s Historical Advisory Committee as the representative of the Organization of American Historians from 2005-2008. Professor Schwartz received The Madison Sarratt Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching on April 3\, 2013 at the Spring Faculty Assembly\, Vanderbilt University. In 2008 Professor Schwartz received the Annual Alumni Education Award from the Vanderbilt Alumni Association. Schwartz is the recipient of the 2008 Book Award by Chi Chapter of the Kappa Alpha Order. This award is given to a faculty member who has been particularly influential in the lives and education of members of KAO. Professor Schwartz presented\, “The Arab Spring: Revolution in the Middle East\,” on April 19\, 2011\, as part of the Samuel L. Shannon Distinguished Lecture Series at Tennessee State University. Professor Schwartz has also presented lectures for the OAH Distinguished Lecturers Program. \nJohn C. Kornblum \nJohn C. Kornblum has a long record of service in the United States and Europe both as a diplomat and as a businessman. He is recognized as an eminent expert on U.S.-European political and economic relations\, in particular in Central and Eastern Europe. He served as the U.S. ambassador to Germany from 1997 to 2001. Before that\, he occupied a number of high-level diplomatic posts\, including U.S. assistant secretary of state for European affairs\, special envoy for the Dayton Peace Process\, U.S. ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Process)\, deputy U.S. ambassador to NATO\, and U.S. minister and deputy commandant of forces in divided Berlin. From 2001 to 2009\, he was chairman of Lazard Freres Germany. He currently serves as senior counsellor to the international law firm Noerr LLP and as a senior adviser to the worldwide consultancy Accenture. Mr. Kornblum has also served on a number of supervisory and advisory boards including those of Thyssen-Krupp\, Technologies AG\, Bayer AG\, Russell Reynolds\, and Motorola Europe. He is a member of the boards of the American Chamber of Commerce in Germany\, the American Academy in Berlin\, the Deutsche Oper in Berlin\, and of numerous nonprofit organizations on both sides of the Atlantic. He received a B.A. from Michigan State University in 1964\, and he has been the recipient of many awards\, including a Knights Cross of the Order of Merit from Germany and an Order of Merit from Austria. \nThomas R. Pickering \nAmbassador Thomas R. Pickering served as the U.S. Ambassador and Representative to the United Nations in New York under President George H.W. Bush. Tom led the U.S. effort to build a global coalition in the UN Security Council during and after the first Gulf War. He also served as the U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs under President Bill Clinton. \nTom holds the personal rank of Career Ambassador\, the highest in the U.S. Foreign Service. In a diplomatic career spanning five decades\, he was U.S. ambassador to the Russian Federation\, India\, Israel\, El Salvador\, Nigeria\, and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. He also served on assignments in Zanzibar and Dar es Salaam\, Tanzania. In Washington\, Tom was Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Oceans\, Environmental and Scientific Affairs\, Executive Secretary of the Department of State\, and Special Assistant to Secretaries of State William P. Rogers and Henry A. Kissinger. \nAfter government\, he was the Senior Vice President\, International Relations\, of The Boeing Company. In this role\, Tom was responsible for Boeing’s relations with foreign governments and the company’s transition to a global organization. Prior to that\, he was briefly the president of the Eurasia Foundation\, a Washington-based organization that makes small grants and loans in the states of the former Soviet Union. \nIn 2012\, Tom chaired the Benghazi Accountability Review Board at the State Department. \nIn 1956\, Tom entered into active duty in the U.S. Navy\, and later served in the Naval Reserve to the grade of Lieutenant Commander. He was assigned to the Bureau of Intelligence and Research of the State Department\, later to the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency\, and served in Geneva as political adviser to the U.S. Delegation to the 18-Nation Disarmament Conference. \nTom serves as a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He is active in a number of not-for-profit boards\, including the International Crisis Group\, where he was previously Chairman and Co-Chairman of the Board; the current Chairman of the Boards of the American Academy of Diplomacy\, the Washington Institute of Foreign Affairs\, and the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University. He has been a Trustee at the Council on Foreign Relations and the Aspen Institute\, among other organizations. Tom maintains close\, high-level contacts in all the countries in which he has served\, as well as in Europe. \nHe received a bachelor’s degree\, cum laude\, with high honors in history\, from Bowdoin College. Tom received a master’s degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. He was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to the University of Melbourne in Australia\, and received a second master’s degree there. Tom received an honorary doctor-in-laws degree from Bowdoin College\, and has received similar honors from 12 other universities. \nHe received the Distinguished Presidential Award and the Department of State’s highest award\, the Distinguished Service Award. Tom is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute of Strategic Studies. He speaks French\, Spanish\, and Swahili and has some fluency in Arabic\, Hebrew\, and Russian. \n  \nMake sure to watch part one of our “America’s Place in the World” panels\, with General John Allen\, Dr. Jessica Matthew and chair\, Professor Thomas Schwartz. \n \n  \nSPONSOR THIS PROGRAM! \nWe invite businesses\, organizations and individuals to sponsor this event. It is through your support that we are able to bring quality global affairs programs to the community. \nYou can enroll for sponsorship through the Eventbrite ticketing below. For information about sponsoring other programs and series of events contact Patrick Ryan\, TNWAC President @ 931-261-2353\, pat@tnwac.org \nSponsorship at the $250.00 level accords you with recognition in program materials — web site\, newsletters and social media — and with acknowledgement at the program start\, as well as admission to the program. Thank you for your support. \nOPEN TO ALL\nYOUR VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTION APPRECIATED\n\n*Registration required. Follow EventBrite’s instructions.\nCheck here for guidance on EventBrite process.\nTrouble Registering? Email Pat@TNWAC.org\n\n\nTHANKS TO OUR PARTNERS IN GLOBAL AFFAIRS AWARENESS AND EDUCATION OUTREACH \n \n \n  \nTHE MISSION of the nonprofit\, nonpartisan Tennessee World Affairs Council is to promote international awareness\, understanding and connections to enhance the region’s global stature and to prepare Tennesseans to thrive in our increasingly complex and connected world. \nTHE VISION of  the Tennessee World Affairs Council is a well-informed community that thinks critically about the world and the impact of global events. \n\n\n[raw] \n\n \n\n[/raw]
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