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SUMMARY:Global News Review | Sep 30
DESCRIPTION:Global News Review – September 30\, 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 \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:Global News Review | Sep 23
DESCRIPTION:Join our team of Ambassador Dick Bowers\, Dr. Breck Walker and LCDR Patrick Ryan for expert analysis of current global developments.\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. \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. \n[raw] \n\n \n\n[/raw]
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SUMMARY:Saudi Arabia | Vision or Mirage Author David Rundell | Sep 22
DESCRIPTION:What image do you have when someone says Saudi Arabia?\nAre you sure it’s accurate?\nSpend a little time with us as we talk with David Rundell\, the American with the most experience as a diplomat in the Kingdom.\nHave your questions ready.\nThis country is key to American policy in the Middle East. You should know more about it.\n“In February 1979\, the last Shah of Iran was overthrown by a violent Islamic revolution. Two years later when I arrived in the Middle East\, many commentators expected Saudi Arabia’s King Fahd would soon be the next monarch to fall. The Washington consensus held that we had paid inadequate attention to events outside of Iran’s capital\, Tehran. We did not want to repeat that mistake. So\, as the American Embassy’s most junior political officer\, I was assigned to spend ten days a month for nearly two years traveling the byroads of rural Saudi Arabia to see what I could learn. I learned a great deal\, and when I was done I argued against considerable skepticism that there would be no Saudi Revolution. Why was that my assessment then—and\, more importantly\, is it still correct today?”  — David Rundell \nThat is how David Rundell began his affair with Saudi Arabia and how he opened his book on the Kingdom he came to know during a large part of his thirty years as a United States Foreign Service Officer. He was posted to the U.S. Embassy in Riyadh and the Consulates in Jeddah and Dhahran. He served at various times chief of mission\, deputy chief of mission\, political counselor\, economic counselor\, and commercial counselor. \n\n\n\n\nJoin us for this Special Edition of Global Dialogue with David Rundell\, author of “Vision or Mirage: Saudi Arabia at a Crossroad.\n\n\nSomething extraordinary is happening in Saudi Arabia. A traditional\, tribal society once known for its lack of tolerance is rapidly implementing significant economic and social reforms. An army of foreign consultants is rewriting Saudi Arabia’s social contract\, King Salman is cracking down hard on corruption\, and his dynamic though inexperienced son\, the Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman\, is promoting a more tolerant brand of Islam. But is all this a new vision for Saudi Arabia or merely a mirage likely to dissolve into a more autocratic police state or an Iranian-style religious revolution? \nDavid H. Rundell – widely regarded as one of America’s foremost experts on Saudi Arabia – explains why the country has been so surprisingly stable for so long\, is less stable today\, and what is likely to happen there in the future. “Vision or Mirage” demystifies the world’s last strategically important absolute monarchy. It will prove valuable to anyone interested in global energy markets\, the Arab-Israeli conflict\, counterterrorism or regional stability in the Middle East. \n\n\n\n\n\nDavid Rundell served as an American diplomat for thirty years\, fifteen of which were spent in Saudi Arabia. He worked at the Embassy in Riyadh as well as the Consulates in Jeddah and Dhahran. His assignments included Chief of Mission\, Deputy Chief of Mission\, Political Counselor\, Economic Counselor\, and Commercial Counselor. This is a unique record for an American diplomat\, not only in Saud Arabia\, but in any country. \nDavid helped negotiate Saudi entry into the World Trade Organization. He made a crucial contribution to obtaining five-year reciprocal visas for American and Saudi travelers. He conceived and helped implement the Joint Commission for Critical Infrastructure Protection which has strengthened Saudi American relations as well as global energy security. He won numerous awards for his analysis and reporting from Saudi Arabia including four Superior Honor Awards and the Cox award given each year to the Foreign Service Office who has made the greatest contribution to American trade policy. \nAfter leaving the State Department in 2010 David worked as a business strategy consultant for Monitor Deloitte for five years. In Saudi Arabia\, this included work with the Saudi Ministry of Commerce\, Ministry of Foreign Affairs\, Saudi Aramco\, the King Abdullah University for Science and Technology (KAUST)\, and the Saudi Arabian General Investment Agency (SAGIA). For the past five years\, David has been a partner in Arabia Analytica a consulting firm based in New York\, Washington and Dubai. His new book Vision or Mirage\, Saudi Arabia at a Crossroads will be published by Bloomsbury in New York and London this fall. \nDavid holds a B.A. cum laude in economics from Colgate University and a M.Phil. in Middle East Studies from Oxford University. He lives in London and Dubai with his wife and daughter. \nDavid has been actively engaged in the production of oil and gas in the Permian Basin of West Texas and New Mexico for over 30 years. \n\n[raw] \n\n \n[/raw]
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SUMMARY:ELECTION 2020: Challenges: Russia\, North Korea\, Afghanistan | Sep 17
DESCRIPTION:Foreign Policy Challenges: Russia\, North Korea\, and Afghanistan\n \nPanel Chair: Dr. Breck Walker\, PhD\n\nDAS Annie Pforzheimer [Afghanistan] U.S. Foreign Service (Ret) Rank of Minister Counselor\, former Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Afghanistan; former Deputy Chief of Mission\, Kabul\, Afghanistan (Confirmed)\nSvetlana Savranskaya\, PhD.\, [Russia] Senior Analyst\, National Security Archive (Confirmed)\nAmbassador Christopher Hill [North Korea] U.S. Foreign Service (Ret); Chief Advisor to the Chancellor for Global Engagement; former Asst Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs; former Ambassador to four countries including South Korea (Confirmed)\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 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. \nTNWAC is a nonpartisan educational organization that seeks to educate the community on global affairs. \nDr. Breck Walker \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. \nAmbassador Christopher Hill \nAmbassador Christopher Hill\, who served 33 years in the U.S. foreign service and led the University of Denver’s school of international affairs for another seven\, will join SIPA’s faculty as George W. Ball Adjunct Professor for spring 2021. Over his long career\, Hill was at the forefront of U.S. foreign policy in multiple regions\, including as ambassador to Iraq\, the Republic of Korea\, Poland\, and Macedonia. As assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama\, Hill led U.S. efforts to end North Korea’s nuclear weapons program\, which induced North Korea to catalogue its nuclear activities and freeze and disable its plutonium production in 2008-2009.  Other career highlights include Hill’s service as U.S. envoy in negotiations that ended the Kosovo war in 1999\, and before that as a leading negotiator who helped forge the agreement that ended the Bosnian war in 1995. “Ambassador Hill’s extraordinary foreign policy experience will be of tremendous benefit to our students and intellectual community\,” wrote Dean Merit E. Janow in a message to the SIPA community. “We look forward to welcoming him to SIPA this spring.” Following his retirement from the State Department\, Hill served from 2010 to 2017 as dean of the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver. After he stepped down as dean he was until July 2020 the university’s head of global engagement and a professor of the practice of diplomacy. \nMinister Counselor Annie Pforzheimer \nA recently retired career diplomat with the personal rank of Minister Counselor\, Annie was until March 2019 the Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Afghanistan. From 2017-2018 she was the Deputy Chief of Mission in Kabul\, one of the largest embassies in the world\, during a period of both intensified violence and the beginning of a historic peace process. \nHer career has focused on security\, rule of law and human rights issues. She directed implementation of the Central America strategy at the National Security Council from 2014-2015\, organizing multiple U.S. government agencies to resolve the drivers of uncontrolled migration. She also led the Office of Andean Affairs in the Western Hemisphere Affairs bureau during Colombia’s peace process and the Office for Peacekeeping\, Sanctions and Counter-terrorism in the IO Bureau\, managing a $2 billion budget and monthly briefings to Congressional committees. She was the Director of the International Narcotics and Law Enforcement program in Mexico City\, Political Counselor in El Salvador\, and the human rights officer in Turkey and South Africa. Her first assignment was in Colombia. \nMs. Pforzheimer was awarded the State Department’s 2001 award for human rights reporting\, and has also received numerous State Department Superior and Meritorious Honor Awards. She is a graduate of Harvard University and the National War College. She speaks Spanish and some Dari\, and enjoys being the parent of a nearly-graduated son\, reading\, classical music and hiking. \nDr. Svetlana Savranskaya \nDr. Svetlana Savranskaya is a Senior Analyst at the Archive and since 2001 the director of the Archive’s Russia programs. She leads the Cooperative Threat Reduction Program of the Archive\, focusing on the Nunn-Lugar initiative and the ongoing challenges of U.S.-Russia cooperation\, and manages the Archive’s relationships with Russian academics and organizations. She served as lead organizer for the historic 2013 Nunn-Lugar conference at Musgrove\, and the 2015 Kazakhstan Nunn-Lugar conference in Astana and Kurchatov. Previously\, she organized and led six summer schools in Russia\, the successful Archive partnerships with Kuban State University\, Tbilisi State University\, the Gorbachev Foundation\, Memorial\, the Moscow Helsinki Group\, and organizations in the Caucasus culminating in the series of four major international conferences on access to information in the former Soviet space. \nShe won the Link-Kuehl Prize in 2011 from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations\, for the best documentary publication over the previous two years\, for her book (with Thomas Blanton and Vladislav Zubok) “Masterpieces of History”: The Peaceful End of the Cold War in Europe 1989 (Budapest/New York: Central European University Press\, 2010\, 730 pp.). Her most recent book\, with the late Sergo Mikoyan\, is The Soviet Cuban Missile Crisis: Castro\, Mikoyan\, Kennedy\, Khrushchev\, and the Missiles of November (Washington D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press/Stanford University Press\, 2012\, 589 pp.). She also serves as an adjunct professor teaching U.S.-Russian relations and Russian politics at the American University School of International Service in Washington D.C. (since 2001). \nShe earned her Ph.D. in political science and international affairs in 1998 from Emory University\, where she studied with Professors Robert Pastor and Thomas Remington. A “Red Diploma” (equivalent of summa cum laude) graduate of the Moscow State University in 1988\, she went on to study at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1989-90\, before moving to Emory. \nHer articles have appeared in the Journal of Strategic Studies and the Cold War International History Project Bulletin\, and she has authored book chapters for the World Political Forum\, the Cambridge History of the Cold War\, and other volumes. Her online publications include major documentary postings on the Reagan-Gorbachev-Bush summits\, on the Moscow Helsinki Group\, on Charter 77 in Czechoslovakia\, on the Soviet war in Afghanistan\, and on the Soviet-era leader of glasnost\, Alexander Yakovlev. She is currently completing a groundbreaking new volume\, with Thomas Blanton\, The Last Superpower Summits: Gorbachev\, Reagan and Bush (Budapest/New York: Central European University Press\, 2016).
URL:https://www.tnwac.org/event/election-2020-challenges-russia-north-korea-afghanistan-sep-17/
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SUMMARY:Global News Review | Sep 16
DESCRIPTION:What in the World?\n \n  \n\nJoin our team of Ambassador Dick Bowers\, Dr. Breck Walker and LCDR Patrick Ryan for expert analysis of current global developments.\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. \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. \n[raw] \n\n \n\n[/raw]
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SUMMARY:ELECTION 2020: China: Confrontation and Conflict or Cooperation | Sep 10
DESCRIPTION:  \nChina: Confrontation and Conflict or Cooperation?\n \nTHURSDAY\, SEPTEMBER 10\, 2020\nVIA ZOOM WEBINAR (Register below)\n5:30pm-7:00pm (CDT)\n  \n• Panel Chair: Dr. Susan Haynes\, PhD\n• Dr. Yang Zhong\, PhD\, Professor of Political Science\, University of Tennessee\, Knoxville (Confirmed)\n• Jeremy Goldkorn\, Editor in Chief\, SupChina.com (Confirmed)\n• John Scannapieco\, Chair Global Business Team\, Baker Donelson\, Nashville (Confirmed)\n• Bonnie S. Glaser\, Senior Adviser for Asia; Director\, China Power Project; Center for Strategic and International Studies\, Washington (Confirmed) \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 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. \nTNWAC is a nonpartisan educational organization that seeks to educate the community on global affairs. \nTNWAC needs your support now more than ever. With a suggested donation of $100\, you can help the Council continue to offer free and public programming to discuss critical global issues affecting Americans’ security and prosperity. \n \nDr. Susan Haynes \nSusan Turner Haynes is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Lipscomb University. 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. \nDr. Yang Zhong \nProfessor Zhong’s is Professor of Political Science at the University of Tennessee\, Knoxville. His main research interests include Chinese local government and politics\, mass political culture in China\, Sino-U.S. relations and relations between China and Taiwan. He has published two scholarly books and edited several others. He has published three scholarly books and edited several others. He has also published over 50 journal articles and book chapters. Some of his works have appeared in top political science journals such as The Journal of Politics\, Political Research Quarterly and Comparative Political Studies. Dr. Zhong also serves as an External Research Associate at China Policy Institute of the University of Nottingham. He was a Visiting Research Fellow at East Asian Institute of National University of Singapore between January and June 2001 and between July and October 2004. Professor Zhong has received research funding from Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange (USA)\, Pacific Cultural Foundation\, and the University of Tennessee. Professor Zhong has served as President of Association of Chinese Political Studies (USA). He has also served as Interim Director\, the Center for International Education\, Chair of Asian Studies Committee and Associate Head of Political Science Department at the University of Tennessee. \nMr. Jeremy Goldkorn \nJeremy Goldkorn is the founder and director of Danwei\, a research firm which began life in 2003 as a website that translated and analyzed Chinese media\, Internet\, government regulation\, and censorship. In 2009\, shortly after Goldkorn opened a consulting business in Beijing to operate the website\, it was blocked\, and the company pivoted to providing media and market research services. The Financial Times acquired Danwei in 2013. Goldkorn is an affiliate of the Australian National University’s Centre on China in the World\, and a co-editor of the China Story website and annual China Story Yearbook published by the Centre. He is is co-host of the Sinica podcast\, and founder of Great Wall Fresh\, a social enterprise to help Chinese peasant farmers run small tourism businesses catering to foreign outdoor enthusiasts. After moving to China in 1995\, Goldkorn lived in a workers’ dormitory\, founded\, edited and managed several Chinese- and English-language magazines\, ran a design firm\, produced a documentary film about African soccer players in Beijing\, and rode a bicycle from Peshawar to Kathmandu via Kashgar and Lhasa. He moved to Nashville Tennessee in 2015 and is a board member of the Tennessee China Network. \nMs. Bonnie S. Glaser \nBonnie S. Glaser is a senior adviser for Asia and the director of the China Power Project at CSIS\, where she works on issues related to Asia-Pacific security with a focus on Chinese foreign and security policy. She is concomitantly a nonresident fellow with the Lowy Institute in Sydney\, Australia\, and a senior associate with the Pacific Forum. Ms. Glaser has worked for more than three decades at the intersection of Asia-Pacific geopolitics and U.S. policy. From 2008 to mid-2015\, she was a senior adviser with the CSIS Freeman Chair in China Studies\, and from 2003 to 2008\, she was a senior associate in the CSIS International Security Program. Prior to joining CSIS\, she served as a consultant for various U.S. government offices\, including the Departments of Defense and State. Ms. Glaser has published widely in academic and policy journals\, including the Washington Quarterly\, China Quarterly\, Asian Survey\, International Security\, Contemporary Southeast Asia\, American Foreign Policy Interests\, Far Eastern Economic Review\, and Korean Journal of Defense Analysis\, as well as in leading newspapers such as the New York Times and International Herald Tribune and in various edited volumes on Asian security. She is also a regular contributor to the Pacific Forum web journal Comparative Connections. She is currently a board member of the U.S. Committee of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific and a member of both the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies. She served as a member of the Defense Department’s Defense Policy Board China Panel in 1997. Ms. Glaser received her B.A. in political science from Boston University and her M.A. with concentrations in international economics and Chinese studies from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. \n \nMr. John Scannapieco \nJohn Scannapieco is head of the global business team at Baker Donelson. He assists U.S. and foreign clients in connection with the sale or disposition of assets\, as well as the negotiation and drafting of distribution\, manufacturing\, employment and agency agreements throughout the world\, including the United States\, Central and South America\, Europe and Asia. He works with a variety of U.S.-based companies in connection with their business activities in China\, Europe\, the Americas and Africa. He also advises companies that are contemplating pursuing a China strategy\, as well as those companies that are currently doing business in China or with China-based businesses. Mr. Scannapieco serves as Honorary Consul from Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Tennessee. He is a board member of the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce’s International Business Council and has served as a chairman of the board of the Japan American Society of Tennessee. He also serves as a board member for Tennessee-China Network\, Tennessee World Affairs Council and Belmont University Center for International Business. He has been recognized by Mid-South Super Lawyers in International Law. \n \nTNWAC recently spoke with Admiral Bill Owens\, former Vice Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff\, about U.S.-China relations. You should watch this program before joining us for the September 10th panel on China. \n[raw] \n\n \n\n[/raw]
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SUMMARY:Global News Review | Sep 9
DESCRIPTION:Join our team of Ambassador Dick Bowers\, Dr. Breck Walker and LCDR Patrick Ryan for expert analysis of current global developments. \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. [Register Below] \nTopics for September 9: \n1 – United Nations General Assembly – UNGA75 \n2 – China Military Power \n3 – TBA \n  \nHERE’S A SAMPLE \n \nClick for video on YouTube.com/TNWAC \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. \n[raw] \n\n \n\n[/raw]
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SUMMARY:New Henry Kissinger Book w/Prof Thomas Schwartz | Sep 8
DESCRIPTION:CAPACITY NOTE: Our Zoom Room contains 100 seats. If we reach capacity and you receive an indication the event is “SOLD OUT” you can still watch the program on FACEBOOK LIVE. Visit the “Tennessee World Affairs Council” FaceBook page at 7:00pm EDT to join the program. \nGlobal Dialogue Special Edition | Prof. Thomas Schwartz\, author of “Henry Kissinger and American Power: A Political Biography”\n \nJoin us as we talk with Prof. Thomas Schwartz\, Distinguished Professor of History and Politics at Vanderbilt University \nABOUT THE BOOK \nThe definitive biography of Henry Kissinger―at least for those who neither revere nor revile him \nOver the past six decades\, Henry Kissinger has been America’s most consistently praised―and reviled―public figure. He was hailed as a “miracle worker” for his peacemaking in the Middle East\, pursuit of détente with the Soviet Union\, negotiation of an end to the Vietnam War\, and secret plan to open the United States to China. He was assailed from the left and from the right for his indifference to human rights\, complicity in the pointless sacrifice of American and Vietnamese lives\, and reliance on deception and intrigue. Was he a brilliant master strategist―“the 20th century’s greatest 19th century statesman”―or a cold-blooded monster who eroded America’s moral standing for the sake of self-promotion? \nIn this masterfully researched biography\, the renowned diplomatic historian Thomas Schwartz offers an authoritative\, and fair-minded\, answer to this question. While other biographers have engaged in hagiography or demonology\, Schwartz takes a measured view of his subject. He recognizes Kissinger’s successes and acknowledges that Kissinger thought seriously and with great insight about the foreign policy issues of his time\, while also recognizing his failures\, his penchant for backbiting\, and his reliance on ingratiating and fawning praise of the president as a source of power. Throughout\, Schwartz stresses Kissinger’s artful invention of himself as a celebrity diplomat and his domination of the medium of television news. He also notes Kissinger’s sensitivity to domestic and partisan politics\, complicating―and undermining―the image of the far-seeing statesman who stands above the squabbles of popular strife. \nRounded and textured\, and rich with new insights into key dilemmas of American power\, Henry Kissinger and American Power stands as an essential guide to a man whose legacy is as complex as the last sixty years of US history itself. \n \nABOUT PROFESSOR THOMAS SCHWARTZ\, PHD \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. \n\nTNWAC needs your support now more than ever. With a suggested donation of $100\, you can help the Council continue to offer free and public programming to discuss global issues of critical importance to Americans’ security and prosperity. \nCAPACITY NOTE:Our Zoom Room contains 100 seats. If we reach capacity and you receive an indication the event is “SOLD OUT” you can still watch the program on FACEBOOK LIVE. Visit the “Tennessee World Affairs Council” FaceBook page at 7:00pm EDT to join the program. \n  \n[raw] \n\n \n\n[/raw]
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SUMMARY:Global News Review | Sep 2
DESCRIPTION:Join our team of Ambassador Dick Bowers\, Dr. Breck Walker and LCDR Patrick Ryan for expert analysis of current global developments. \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. \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. \n[raw] \n\n \n\n[/raw]
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