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SUMMARY:Global News Review | Jan 13
DESCRIPTION:Global News Review – January 13\, 2021\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. \nTOPICS FOR JANUARY 13\, 2021 \n\nInternational Reaction to Attack on American Democracy\nSecState Pompeo’s 11th Hour Move on Taiwan\nIran and the 20 Percenters: It’s Only Uranium\n\nREGISTER BELOW \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. \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. \nTHANKS TO OUR PARTNERS IN GLOBAL AFFAIRS AWARENESS AND EDUCATION OUTREACH \n \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[raw] \n\n \n \n[/raw]
URL:https://www.tnwac.org/event/global-news-review-jan-13-4/
CATEGORIES:Distinguished Speaker Series
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SUMMARY:Global News Review | Jan 13
DESCRIPTION:Global News Review – January 13\, 2021\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. \nTOPICS FOR JANUARY 13\, 2021 \n\nInternational Reaction to Attack on American Democracy\nSecState Pompeo’s 11th Hour Move on Taiwan\nIran and the 20 Percenters: It’s Only Uranium\n\nREGISTER BELOW \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. \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. \nTHANKS TO OUR PARTNERS IN GLOBAL AFFAIRS AWARENESS AND EDUCATION OUTREACH \n \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[raw] \n\n \n \n[/raw]
URL:https://www.tnwac.org/event/global-news-review-jan-13/
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SUMMARY:Global News Review | Jan 13
DESCRIPTION:Global News Review – January 13\, 2021\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. \nTOPICS FOR JANUARY 13\, 2021 \n\nInternational Reaction to Attack on American Democracy\nSecState Pompeo’s 11th Hour Move on Taiwan\nIran and the 20 Percenters: It’s Only Uranium\n\nREGISTER BELOW \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. \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. \nTHANKS TO OUR PARTNERS IN GLOBAL AFFAIRS AWARENESS AND EDUCATION OUTREACH \n \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[raw] \n\n \n \n[/raw]
URL:https://www.tnwac.org/event/global-news-review-jan-13-2/
CATEGORIES:Distinguished Speaker Series
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SUMMARY:Global News Review | Jan 13
DESCRIPTION:Global News Review – January 13\, 2021\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. \nTOPICS FOR JANUARY 13\, 2021 \n\nInternational Reaction to Attack on American Democracy\nSecState Pompeo’s 11th Hour Move on Taiwan\nIran and the 20 Percenters: It’s Only Uranium\n\nREGISTER BELOW \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. \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. \nTHANKS TO OUR PARTNERS IN GLOBAL AFFAIRS AWARENESS AND EDUCATION OUTREACH \n \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[raw] \n\n \n \n[/raw]
URL:https://www.tnwac.org/event/global-news-review-jan-13-3/
CATEGORIES:Distinguished Speaker Series
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SUMMARY:Global News Review | Jan 6
DESCRIPTION:Global News Review – January 6\, 2021\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. \nTOPICS FOR JANUARY 6\, 2021 \nTo Be Announced \nREGISTER BELOW \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. \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. \nTHANKS TO OUR PARTNERS IN GLOBAL AFFAIRS AWARENESS AND EDUCATION OUTREACH \n \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[raw] \n\n \n \n[/raw]
URL:https://www.tnwac.org/event/global-news-review-jan-6/
CATEGORIES:Distinguished Speaker Series
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SUMMARY:Global News Review | Jan 6
DESCRIPTION:Global News Review – January 6\, 2021\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. \nTOPICS FOR JANUARY 6\, 2021 \nTo Be Announced \nREGISTER BELOW \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. \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. \nTHANKS TO OUR PARTNERS IN GLOBAL AFFAIRS AWARENESS AND EDUCATION OUTREACH \n \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[raw] \n\n \n \n[/raw]
URL:https://www.tnwac.org/event/global-news-review-jan-6-2/
CATEGORIES:Distinguished Speaker Series
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SUMMARY:Global News Review | Jan 6
DESCRIPTION:Global News Review – January 6\, 2021\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. \nTOPICS FOR JANUARY 6\, 2021 \nTo Be Announced \nREGISTER BELOW \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. \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. \nTHANKS TO OUR PARTNERS IN GLOBAL AFFAIRS AWARENESS AND EDUCATION OUTREACH \n \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[raw] \n\n \n \n[/raw]
URL:https://www.tnwac.org/event/global-news-review-jan-6-3/
CATEGORIES:Distinguished Speaker Series
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SUMMARY:Global News Review | Jan 6
DESCRIPTION:Global News Review – January 6\, 2021\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. \nTOPICS FOR JANUARY 6\, 2021 \nTo Be Announced \nREGISTER BELOW \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. \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. \nTHANKS TO OUR PARTNERS IN GLOBAL AFFAIRS AWARENESS AND EDUCATION OUTREACH \n \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[raw] \n\n \n \n[/raw]
URL:https://www.tnwac.org/event/global-news-review-jan-6-4/
CATEGORIES:Distinguished Speaker Series
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SUMMARY:Global Dialogue | Malcolm Nance | Terrorism: At Home and Abroad
DESCRIPTION:Global Dialogue Webinar Series\nTerrorism: At Home and Abroad\nwith\nMalcolm Nance\nAuthor and Director of the Terror Asymmetrics Project\n\n \n\nand host\nPatrick Ryan\nFormer Chief of Terrorism Assessments\, US Central Command\n \nJanuary 5\, 2021\n\n6:00 PM CT\nREGISTER BELOW \nAt 6:28 a.m. a massive explosion ripped through a historic block of North Second Avenue in downtown Nashville. Among the first questions asked were who did it\, why did they do it\, and was it terrorism. That last question has become a quintessential element of mass violence in America. We may feel some relief when when a heinous act is not called terrorism\, sadly\, not that its horrific nature is lessened by its label but the implication that it’s not part of a wider campaign. \nMost bombings have been judged to be terrorism in that they have a political or ideological motivation. The Nashville bombing has yet to be labeled by law enforcement as such\, not that the average citizen couldn’t be forgiven for concluding  the Christmas bombing was “terror” in their minds. [The distinction of an act of “terrorism” is not lost on the home owners and business people who may lose insurance coverage if December 25th was officially designated an act of terror.] \nAs the FBI continues the investigation into the Christmas bombing and we navigate the aftermath we will try to put it in the context of the threat of such violence from domestic and international sources. To do so TNWAC has invited Malcolm Nance\, an expert in analyzing and countering terrorist violence. Nance literally wrote the book on it. A prolific author he produced the “Terrorist Recognition Handbook: A Practitioner’s  Manual for Predicting and Identifying Terrorist Activities.” He has also written extensively on combatting the Islamic State and on Russian hacking attacks on American cyber systems in furtherance of political and national security objectives. Nance’s counter-terrorism activities include work in the field to combat terrorist activities. \nNance retired from the Navy after 20 years and promotion to Senior Chief Petty Officer. Among his post-military pursuits was work in preparing Navy special operations forces\, SEALs and others\, in methods to endure captivity at the hands of a new class of enemies like Al Qaeda militants. He also worked in security and intelligence activities in Iraq after the 2003 U.S. invasion. Along the way he became an expert on extremist threats in Iraq and literally wrote the book on ISIS producing a handbook that became a counter-terrorism bible. Nance’s research and writing about ISIS’ use of electronic media led to his dive into what was to emerge as a wide-ranging Russian information warfare capability and campaign. \nHosting the conversation with Malcolm Nance will be TNWAC’s founding president and retired Navy Intelligence Officer\, LCDR Patrick Ryan. Among his experiences working in Middle East affairs was assignment as chief of terrorism analysis at U.S. Central Command during the bombings of USMTM in Riyadh and the USAF barracks in al-Khobar. He completed his 26 years in the Navy in 1998\, on a one-year\, Intelligence Community research project into the emergence of the Al Qaeda threat. \nJoin us on Tuesday\, January 5th at 6:00 pm\, as Nance and Ryan discuss the Nashville bombing\, the domestic terror threat — called the “greatest threat to the homeland” by FBI Director Wray — and the ever present international terror that to U.S. interests. \nYou should also listen to the TNWAC “Global Tennessee” Podcast recorded a year ago when Nance visited Nashville. You can find it HERE on our SoundCloud.com/tnwac Podcast archive of “Global Tennessee” Pods. \n\nMalcolm Nance is a former Arabic speaking naval intelligence counter-terrorism and intelligence officer specializing in the Middle East; a combat veteran\, Survival\, Evasion\, Resistance and Escape expert\, historian\, and author. He spent 35 years participating in field and combat intelligence activity including both covert and clandestine anti & counter-terrorism support to national intelligence agencies. He is a member of the Board of Advisors at the International Spy Museum in Washington DC; as honored as one of the noteworthy African-Americans in Espionage and featured in the Academy award nominated documentary Dirty Wars. MSNBC and labeled him one the “unsung national security genius of our time.” He is presently executive Director of the Terror Asymmetrics Project on Strategy\, Tactics and Radical Ideologies (TAPSTRI) in Hudson\, NY. [Source] \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. At CENTCOM Ryan was Chief of the Terrorism Assessments Branch responsible for intelligence reporting on threats across the Horn of Africa\, Arabian Peninsula and Southwest Asia. In 1997 he was selected in the Intelligence Community’s Exceptional Intelligence Analyst Program to research the emerging threat from Al Qaeda. He 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. \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. \nTHANKS TO OUR PARTNERS IN GLOBAL AFFAIRS AWARENESS AND EDUCATION OUTREACH \n \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[raw] \n\n \n\n[/raw]
URL:https://www.tnwac.org/event/global-dialogue-malcolm-nance-terrorism-at-home-and-abroad-3/
CATEGORIES:Webinar
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SUMMARY:Global Dialogue | Malcolm Nance | Terrorism: At Home and Abroad
DESCRIPTION:Global Dialogue Webinar Series\nTerrorism: At Home and Abroad\nwith\nMalcolm Nance\nAuthor and Director of the Terror Asymmetrics Project\n\n \n\nand host\nPatrick Ryan\nFormer Chief of Terrorism Assessments\, US Central Command\n \nJanuary 5\, 2021\n\n6:00 PM CT\nREGISTER BELOW \nAt 6:28 a.m. a massive explosion ripped through a historic block of North Second Avenue in downtown Nashville. Among the first questions asked were who did it\, why did they do it\, and was it terrorism. That last question has become a quintessential element of mass violence in America. We may feel some relief when when a heinous act is not called terrorism\, sadly\, not that its horrific nature is lessened by its label but the implication that it’s not part of a wider campaign. \nMost bombings have been judged to be terrorism in that they have a political or ideological motivation. The Nashville bombing has yet to be labeled by law enforcement as such\, not that the average citizen couldn’t be forgiven for concluding  the Christmas bombing was “terror” in their minds. [The distinction of an act of “terrorism” is not lost on the home owners and business people who may lose insurance coverage if December 25th was officially designated an act of terror.] \nAs the FBI continues the investigation into the Christmas bombing and we navigate the aftermath we will try to put it in the context of the threat of such violence from domestic and international sources. To do so TNWAC has invited Malcolm Nance\, an expert in analyzing and countering terrorist violence. Nance literally wrote the book on it. A prolific author he produced the “Terrorist Recognition Handbook: A Practitioner’s  Manual for Predicting and Identifying Terrorist Activities.” He has also written extensively on combatting the Islamic State and on Russian hacking attacks on American cyber systems in furtherance of political and national security objectives. Nance’s counter-terrorism activities include work in the field to combat terrorist activities. \nNance retired from the Navy after 20 years and promotion to Senior Chief Petty Officer. Among his post-military pursuits was work in preparing Navy special operations forces\, SEALs and others\, in methods to endure captivity at the hands of a new class of enemies like Al Qaeda militants. He also worked in security and intelligence activities in Iraq after the 2003 U.S. invasion. Along the way he became an expert on extremist threats in Iraq and literally wrote the book on ISIS producing a handbook that became a counter-terrorism bible. Nance’s research and writing about ISIS’ use of electronic media led to his dive into what was to emerge as a wide-ranging Russian information warfare capability and campaign. \nHosting the conversation with Malcolm Nance will be TNWAC’s founding president and retired Navy Intelligence Officer\, LCDR Patrick Ryan. Among his experiences working in Middle East affairs was assignment as chief of terrorism analysis at U.S. Central Command during the bombings of USMTM in Riyadh and the USAF barracks in al-Khobar. He completed his 26 years in the Navy in 1998\, on a one-year\, Intelligence Community research project into the emergence of the Al Qaeda threat. \nJoin us on Tuesday\, January 5th at 6:00 pm\, as Nance and Ryan discuss the Nashville bombing\, the domestic terror threat — called the “greatest threat to the homeland” by FBI Director Wray — and the ever present international terror that to U.S. interests. \nYou should also listen to the TNWAC “Global Tennessee” Podcast recorded a year ago when Nance visited Nashville. You can find it HERE on our SoundCloud.com/tnwac Podcast archive of “Global Tennessee” Pods. \n\nMalcolm Nance is a former Arabic speaking naval intelligence counter-terrorism and intelligence officer specializing in the Middle East; a combat veteran\, Survival\, Evasion\, Resistance and Escape expert\, historian\, and author. He spent 35 years participating in field and combat intelligence activity including both covert and clandestine anti & counter-terrorism support to national intelligence agencies. He is a member of the Board of Advisors at the International Spy Museum in Washington DC; as honored as one of the noteworthy African-Americans in Espionage and featured in the Academy award nominated documentary Dirty Wars. MSNBC and labeled him one the “unsung national security genius of our time.” He is presently executive Director of the Terror Asymmetrics Project on Strategy\, Tactics and Radical Ideologies (TAPSTRI) in Hudson\, NY. [Source] \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. At CENTCOM Ryan was Chief of the Terrorism Assessments Branch responsible for intelligence reporting on threats across the Horn of Africa\, Arabian Peninsula and Southwest Asia. In 1997 he was selected in the Intelligence Community’s Exceptional Intelligence Analyst Program to research the emerging threat from Al Qaeda. He 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. \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. \nTHANKS TO OUR PARTNERS IN GLOBAL AFFAIRS AWARENESS AND EDUCATION OUTREACH \n \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[raw] \n\n \n\n[/raw]
URL:https://www.tnwac.org/event/global-dialogue-malcolm-nance-terrorism-at-home-and-abroad-4/
CATEGORIES:Webinar
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SUMMARY:Global Dialogue | Malcolm Nance | Terrorism: At Home and Abroad
DESCRIPTION:Global Dialogue Webinar Series\nTerrorism: At Home and Abroad\nwith\nMalcolm Nance\nAuthor and Director of the Terror Asymmetrics Project\n\n \n\nand host\nPatrick Ryan\nFormer Chief of Terrorism Assessments\, US Central Command\n \nJanuary 5\, 2021\n\n6:00 PM CT\nREGISTER BELOW \nAt 6:28 a.m. a massive explosion ripped through a historic block of North Second Avenue in downtown Nashville. Among the first questions asked were who did it\, why did they do it\, and was it terrorism. That last question has become a quintessential element of mass violence in America. We may feel some relief when when a heinous act is not called terrorism\, sadly\, not that its horrific nature is lessened by its label but the implication that it’s not part of a wider campaign. \nMost bombings have been judged to be terrorism in that they have a political or ideological motivation. The Nashville bombing has yet to be labeled by law enforcement as such\, not that the average citizen couldn’t be forgiven for concluding  the Christmas bombing was “terror” in their minds. [The distinction of an act of “terrorism” is not lost on the home owners and business people who may lose insurance coverage if December 25th was officially designated an act of terror.] \nAs the FBI continues the investigation into the Christmas bombing and we navigate the aftermath we will try to put it in the context of the threat of such violence from domestic and international sources. To do so TNWAC has invited Malcolm Nance\, an expert in analyzing and countering terrorist violence. Nance literally wrote the book on it. A prolific author he produced the “Terrorist Recognition Handbook: A Practitioner’s  Manual for Predicting and Identifying Terrorist Activities.” He has also written extensively on combatting the Islamic State and on Russian hacking attacks on American cyber systems in furtherance of political and national security objectives. Nance’s counter-terrorism activities include work in the field to combat terrorist activities. \nNance retired from the Navy after 20 years and promotion to Senior Chief Petty Officer. Among his post-military pursuits was work in preparing Navy special operations forces\, SEALs and others\, in methods to endure captivity at the hands of a new class of enemies like Al Qaeda militants. He also worked in security and intelligence activities in Iraq after the 2003 U.S. invasion. Along the way he became an expert on extremist threats in Iraq and literally wrote the book on ISIS producing a handbook that became a counter-terrorism bible. Nance’s research and writing about ISIS’ use of electronic media led to his dive into what was to emerge as a wide-ranging Russian information warfare capability and campaign. \nHosting the conversation with Malcolm Nance will be TNWAC’s founding president and retired Navy Intelligence Officer\, LCDR Patrick Ryan. Among his experiences working in Middle East affairs was assignment as chief of terrorism analysis at U.S. Central Command during the bombings of USMTM in Riyadh and the USAF barracks in al-Khobar. He completed his 26 years in the Navy in 1998\, on a one-year\, Intelligence Community research project into the emergence of the Al Qaeda threat. \nJoin us on Tuesday\, January 5th at 6:00 pm\, as Nance and Ryan discuss the Nashville bombing\, the domestic terror threat — called the “greatest threat to the homeland” by FBI Director Wray — and the ever present international terror that to U.S. interests. \nYou should also listen to the TNWAC “Global Tennessee” Podcast recorded a year ago when Nance visited Nashville. You can find it HERE on our SoundCloud.com/tnwac Podcast archive of “Global Tennessee” Pods. \n\nMalcolm Nance is a former Arabic speaking naval intelligence counter-terrorism and intelligence officer specializing in the Middle East; a combat veteran\, Survival\, Evasion\, Resistance and Escape expert\, historian\, and author. He spent 35 years participating in field and combat intelligence activity including both covert and clandestine anti & counter-terrorism support to national intelligence agencies. He is a member of the Board of Advisors at the International Spy Museum in Washington DC; as honored as one of the noteworthy African-Americans in Espionage and featured in the Academy award nominated documentary Dirty Wars. MSNBC and labeled him one the “unsung national security genius of our time.” He is presently executive Director of the Terror Asymmetrics Project on Strategy\, Tactics and Radical Ideologies (TAPSTRI) in Hudson\, NY. [Source] \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. At CENTCOM Ryan was Chief of the Terrorism Assessments Branch responsible for intelligence reporting on threats across the Horn of Africa\, Arabian Peninsula and Southwest Asia. In 1997 he was selected in the Intelligence Community’s Exceptional Intelligence Analyst Program to research the emerging threat from Al Qaeda. He 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. \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. \nTHANKS TO OUR PARTNERS IN GLOBAL AFFAIRS AWARENESS AND EDUCATION OUTREACH \n \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[raw] \n\n \n\n[/raw]
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CATEGORIES:Webinar
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SUMMARY:Global Dialogue | Malcolm Nance | Terrorism: At Home and Abroad
DESCRIPTION:Global Dialogue Webinar Series\nTerrorism: At Home and Abroad\nwith\nMalcolm Nance\nAuthor and Director of the Terror Asymmetrics Project\n\n \n\nand host\nPatrick Ryan\nFormer Chief of Terrorism Assessments\, US Central Command\n \nJanuary 5\, 2021\n\n6:00 PM CT\nREGISTER BELOW \nAt 6:28 a.m. a massive explosion ripped through a historic block of North Second Avenue in downtown Nashville. Among the first questions asked were who did it\, why did they do it\, and was it terrorism. That last question has become a quintessential element of mass violence in America. We may feel some relief when when a heinous act is not called terrorism\, sadly\, not that its horrific nature is lessened by its label but the implication that it’s not part of a wider campaign. \nMost bombings have been judged to be terrorism in that they have a political or ideological motivation. The Nashville bombing has yet to be labeled by law enforcement as such\, not that the average citizen couldn’t be forgiven for concluding  the Christmas bombing was “terror” in their minds. [The distinction of an act of “terrorism” is not lost on the home owners and business people who may lose insurance coverage if December 25th was officially designated an act of terror.] \nAs the FBI continues the investigation into the Christmas bombing and we navigate the aftermath we will try to put it in the context of the threat of such violence from domestic and international sources. To do so TNWAC has invited Malcolm Nance\, an expert in analyzing and countering terrorist violence. Nance literally wrote the book on it. A prolific author he produced the “Terrorist Recognition Handbook: A Practitioner’s  Manual for Predicting and Identifying Terrorist Activities.” He has also written extensively on combatting the Islamic State and on Russian hacking attacks on American cyber systems in furtherance of political and national security objectives. Nance’s counter-terrorism activities include work in the field to combat terrorist activities. \nNance retired from the Navy after 20 years and promotion to Senior Chief Petty Officer. Among his post-military pursuits was work in preparing Navy special operations forces\, SEALs and others\, in methods to endure captivity at the hands of a new class of enemies like Al Qaeda militants. He also worked in security and intelligence activities in Iraq after the 2003 U.S. invasion. Along the way he became an expert on extremist threats in Iraq and literally wrote the book on ISIS producing a handbook that became a counter-terrorism bible. Nance’s research and writing about ISIS’ use of electronic media led to his dive into what was to emerge as a wide-ranging Russian information warfare capability and campaign. \nHosting the conversation with Malcolm Nance will be TNWAC’s founding president and retired Navy Intelligence Officer\, LCDR Patrick Ryan. Among his experiences working in Middle East affairs was assignment as chief of terrorism analysis at U.S. Central Command during the bombings of USMTM in Riyadh and the USAF barracks in al-Khobar. He completed his 26 years in the Navy in 1998\, on a one-year\, Intelligence Community research project into the emergence of the Al Qaeda threat. \nJoin us on Tuesday\, January 5th at 6:00 pm\, as Nance and Ryan discuss the Nashville bombing\, the domestic terror threat — called the “greatest threat to the homeland” by FBI Director Wray — and the ever present international terror that to U.S. interests. \nYou should also listen to the TNWAC “Global Tennessee” Podcast recorded a year ago when Nance visited Nashville. You can find it HERE on our SoundCloud.com/tnwac Podcast archive of “Global Tennessee” Pods. \n\nMalcolm Nance is a former Arabic speaking naval intelligence counter-terrorism and intelligence officer specializing in the Middle East; a combat veteran\, Survival\, Evasion\, Resistance and Escape expert\, historian\, and author. He spent 35 years participating in field and combat intelligence activity including both covert and clandestine anti & counter-terrorism support to national intelligence agencies. He is a member of the Board of Advisors at the International Spy Museum in Washington DC; as honored as one of the noteworthy African-Americans in Espionage and featured in the Academy award nominated documentary Dirty Wars. MSNBC and labeled him one the “unsung national security genius of our time.” He is presently executive Director of the Terror Asymmetrics Project on Strategy\, Tactics and Radical Ideologies (TAPSTRI) in Hudson\, NY. [Source] \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. At CENTCOM Ryan was Chief of the Terrorism Assessments Branch responsible for intelligence reporting on threats across the Horn of Africa\, Arabian Peninsula and Southwest Asia. In 1997 he was selected in the Intelligence Community’s Exceptional Intelligence Analyst Program to research the emerging threat from Al Qaeda. He 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. \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. \nTHANKS TO OUR PARTNERS IN GLOBAL AFFAIRS AWARENESS AND EDUCATION OUTREACH \n \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[raw] \n\n \n\n[/raw]
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SUMMARY:New World Order: The Middle East | Dec 17
DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to collaborate with our friends at the World Affairs Council of Harrisburg\nto present this important program.\n \nYou Are Invited\nNew World Order: The Middle East\nBiden Takes Over\n \nAmy Tachco\nOffice of Regional and Multilateral Affairs\, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs\, U.S. Department of State\nDecember 17\, 2020 @ 5p.m. CT\nPresident-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will take office on January 20 and their administration is likely to be far different from the one led by President Donald Trump.  TNWAC is pleased to join WACH in a discussions with experts in domestic and foreign affairs to discuss how the world is likely to change in 2021. \nJoin us 5 p.m. (Central Time) Thursday\, Dec. 17 for our conversation  with  Amy Tachco\, director of the Office of Regional And Multilateral Affairs in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs of the U.S. Department of State. We will open with remarks from Irina Karmanova\, from the State Department Office of Public Liaison. \n \nABOUT AMY TACHCO \nAmy Tachco joined the Foreign Service in 2002 after a brief stint in finance in New York.  She has served in Karachi\, Casablanca\, Madrid (twice)\, Beirut\, and in Washington in the Bureaus of Near Eastern and African Affairs.  She served as Political Counselor at U.S. Embassy Damascus in the run-up to closure of the Mission in 2012\, and was Minister Counselor for Political Affairs at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations under Ambassadors Samantha Power and Nikki Haley. She also served as Foreign Policy Adviser to the U.S. Navy Fifth Fleet Commander in Manama\, Bahrain.  A graduate of Smith College and the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva\, she speaks French\, Spanish\, Italian\, and Arabic. \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. \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.
URL:https://www.tnwac.org/event/new-world-order-biden-takes-over-dec-17-4/
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SUMMARY:New World Order: The Middle East | Dec 17
DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to collaborate with our friends at the World Affairs Council of Harrisburg\nto present this important program.\n \nYou Are Invited\nNew World Order: The Middle East\nBiden Takes Over\n \nAmy Tachco\nOffice of Regional and Multilateral Affairs\, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs\, U.S. Department of State\nDecember 17\, 2020 @ 5p.m. CT\nPresident-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will take office on January 20 and their administration is likely to be far different from the one led by President Donald Trump.  TNWAC is pleased to join WACH in a discussions with experts in domestic and foreign affairs to discuss how the world is likely to change in 2021. \nJoin us 5 p.m. (Central Time) Thursday\, Dec. 17 for our conversation  with  Amy Tachco\, director of the Office of Regional And Multilateral Affairs in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs of the U.S. Department of State. We will open with remarks from Irina Karmanova\, from the State Department Office of Public Liaison. \n \nABOUT AMY TACHCO \nAmy Tachco joined the Foreign Service in 2002 after a brief stint in finance in New York.  She has served in Karachi\, Casablanca\, Madrid (twice)\, Beirut\, and in Washington in the Bureaus of Near Eastern and African Affairs.  She served as Political Counselor at U.S. Embassy Damascus in the run-up to closure of the Mission in 2012\, and was Minister Counselor for Political Affairs at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations under Ambassadors Samantha Power and Nikki Haley. She also served as Foreign Policy Adviser to the U.S. Navy Fifth Fleet Commander in Manama\, Bahrain.  A graduate of Smith College and the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva\, she speaks French\, Spanish\, Italian\, and Arabic. \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. \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.
URL:https://www.tnwac.org/event/new-world-order-biden-takes-over-dec-17-2/
CATEGORIES:Distinguished Speaker Series
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SUMMARY:New World Order: The Middle East | Dec 17
DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to collaborate with our friends at the World Affairs Council of Harrisburg\nto present this important program.\n \nYou Are Invited\nNew World Order: The Middle East\nBiden Takes Over\n \nAmy Tachco\nOffice of Regional and Multilateral Affairs\, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs\, U.S. Department of State\nDecember 17\, 2020 @ 5p.m. CT\nPresident-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will take office on January 20 and their administration is likely to be far different from the one led by President Donald Trump.  TNWAC is pleased to join WACH in a discussions with experts in domestic and foreign affairs to discuss how the world is likely to change in 2021. \nJoin us 5 p.m. (Central Time) Thursday\, Dec. 17 for our conversation  with  Amy Tachco\, director of the Office of Regional And Multilateral Affairs in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs of the U.S. Department of State. We will open with remarks from Irina Karmanova\, from the State Department Office of Public Liaison. \n \nABOUT AMY TACHCO \nAmy Tachco joined the Foreign Service in 2002 after a brief stint in finance in New York.  She has served in Karachi\, Casablanca\, Madrid (twice)\, Beirut\, and in Washington in the Bureaus of Near Eastern and African Affairs.  She served as Political Counselor at U.S. Embassy Damascus in the run-up to closure of the Mission in 2012\, and was Minister Counselor for Political Affairs at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations under Ambassadors Samantha Power and Nikki Haley. She also served as Foreign Policy Adviser to the U.S. Navy Fifth Fleet Commander in Manama\, Bahrain.  A graduate of Smith College and the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva\, she speaks French\, Spanish\, Italian\, and Arabic. \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. \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.
URL:https://www.tnwac.org/event/new-world-order-biden-takes-over-dec-17/
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SUMMARY:New World Order: The Middle East | Dec 17
DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to collaborate with our friends at the World Affairs Council of Harrisburg\nto present this important program.\n \nYou Are Invited\nNew World Order: The Middle East\nBiden Takes Over\n \nAmy Tachco\nOffice of Regional and Multilateral Affairs\, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs\, U.S. Department of State\nDecember 17\, 2020 @ 5p.m. CT\nPresident-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will take office on January 20 and their administration is likely to be far different from the one led by President Donald Trump.  TNWAC is pleased to join WACH in a discussions with experts in domestic and foreign affairs to discuss how the world is likely to change in 2021. \nJoin us 5 p.m. (Central Time) Thursday\, Dec. 17 for our conversation  with  Amy Tachco\, director of the Office of Regional And Multilateral Affairs in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs of the U.S. Department of State. We will open with remarks from Irina Karmanova\, from the State Department Office of Public Liaison. \n \nABOUT AMY TACHCO \nAmy Tachco joined the Foreign Service in 2002 after a brief stint in finance in New York.  She has served in Karachi\, Casablanca\, Madrid (twice)\, Beirut\, and in Washington in the Bureaus of Near Eastern and African Affairs.  She served as Political Counselor at U.S. Embassy Damascus in the run-up to closure of the Mission in 2012\, and was Minister Counselor for Political Affairs at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations under Ambassadors Samantha Power and Nikki Haley. She also served as Foreign Policy Adviser to the U.S. Navy Fifth Fleet Commander in Manama\, Bahrain.  A graduate of Smith College and the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva\, she speaks French\, Spanish\, Italian\, and Arabic. \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. \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.
URL:https://www.tnwac.org/event/new-world-order-biden-takes-over-dec-17-3/
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SUMMARY:Global News Review | Dec 16
DESCRIPTION:Global News Review – December 16\, 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 \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:UN75: The Journey Continues | Special Program | Dec 9
DESCRIPTION:UN75: The Journey Continues\nYou’re Invited to Our Special Roundtable\nCelebrating the 75th anniversary of the United Nations and understanding its challenges going forward.\n \nPresented by Members of the World Affairs Councils of America\nWorldDenver\, International Relations Council – Kansas City\, World Affairs Council of Harrisburg and the Tennessee World Affairs Council\nWednesday December 9th\n ET 7-8:15 | CT 6-7:15 | MT 5-6:15\nWelcome: Matthew Hughes\, Executive Director\, International Relations Council\, Kansas City \nIntroduction: Patrick Ryan\, President\, Tennessee World Affairs Council \nKeynote: Ambassador Thomas R. Pickering \nModerator: Joyce Davis\, President\, World Affairs Council of Harrisburg \nPanel: \n\nHon Gérard Araud\, former Ambassador of France to the United States and former Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations (Confirmed)\nLinda Fasulo\, NPR Correspondent at the UN\, author “An Insider’s Guide to the UN” (Confirmed)\nSamuel Rushay\, Supervisory Archivist\, Harry S. Truman Library and Museum (Confirmed)\nDustin Liu\, UNA USA Youth Representative\n\n \n \nSPONSORS \nInterested in sponsoring this special roundtable on “UN75: The Journey Continues”? Contact Patrick Ryan (pat@tnwac.org | 931.261.2353) \nThis joint World Affairs Councils program is made possible by individuals and institutions like you\, including these. \nThanks to Nashville Cordell Hull Chapter UNA-USA President Bob Teague and our friends in the Chapter for the generous support of this program. \n \nThanks to an individual providing a $1\,000 contribution in the name of the UN Association USA\, Greater Kansas City Chapter. \n \n \nThomas 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. \nGérard Araud \nAmbassador Araud was a French diplomat for more than three decades\, earning the highest rank in the French diplomatic service\, “Ambassadeur de France.” He served as Ambassador of France to the United States from 2014 to 2019. He was also France’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York and France’s Ambassador to Israel. \nAraud held numerous other senior positions within the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development\, including Director General for Political Affairs and Security and Director for Strategic Affairs\, Security\, and Disarmament (2000-2003). He also served as the French negotiator on the Iranian nuclear issue from 2006 to 2009. \nAmbassador Araud is a trustee of the International Crisis Group and a Senior Distinguished Fellow at the Atlantic Council. He is a regular contributor on international affairs for the French weekly Le Point\, French BFM TV\, and French public radio. He is also frequently interviewed by CNN International\, the BBC\, and other English-language media. \nAmbassador Araud is based in New York. \nLinda Fasulo \nLinda Fasulo is a journalist and author specializing in the United Nations and US foreign policy. Based at the United Nations\, Linda is UN Correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC as well as a long-time independent correspondent for National Public Radio (NPR). She also worked for several years as special UN correspondent for US News and World Report. \nHer book\, An Insider’s Guide to the UN\, published by Yale University Press\, was selected by School Library Journal as one of the best adult books for high school students and has received much critical acclaim. Tom Brokaw\, NBC News writes\, “No one knows the big picture and inner workings of the UN better than Linda Fasulo. This book is must-read for anyone interested in international affairs\,” and Joseph S. Nye\, of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government says that the book “will become the indispensable source on the United Nations for everyone from students to diplomats. I keep it handy on my desk.” An updated second edition of An Insider’s Guide to the UN will be published next year. \nLinda is an honorary fellow of the Foreign Policy Association\, and she has served as an officer and board member of the Overseas Press Club and the United Nations Correspondents Association. \nSam Rushay \nSupervisory Archivist\, Harry S. Truman Library and Museum.  Sam Rushay has worked at the National Archives and Records Administration for 27 years. He is the supervisory archivist at the Harry S. Truman Library and Museum in Independence\, MO\, where he worked as an archivist from 1993-1997. From 1997-2007\, he was an archivist and subject matter expert at the Nixon Presidential Materials Staff at the National Archives in College Park\, Maryland. Rushay has published articles about Richard Nixon and Harry Truman. A Columbus\, Ohio\, native\, he earned a B.A. in U.S. History from Ohio State University and obtained a M.A. and Ph.D. in U.S. history from Ohio University.\n  \nhttps://youtu.be/oQVdf5Eib6g \n  \n\nAcross this anniversary year\, we have engaged in a global conversation. And the results are striking. People are thinking big – they are also expressing an intense yearning for international cooperation and global solidarity. Now is the time to respond to these aspirations and realize these aims. In this 75th anniversary year\, we face our own 1945 moment. We must meet that moment. We must show unity like never before to overcome today’s emergency\, get the world moving and working and prospering again\, and uphold the vision of the Charter. \n–UN Secretary-General António Guterres \nPresented by Members of the World Affairs Councils of America\nWorldDenver\, International Relations Council – Kansas City\, World Affairs Council of Harrisburg and the Tennessee World Affairs Council\nWorld Affairs Councils are independent\, nonpartisan organizations dedicated to engaging the public and leading global voices to better understand the world\, America’s international role\, and the policy choices that impact our daily lives and our future. \n \n  \n \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:UN75: The Journey Continues | Special Program | Dec 9
DESCRIPTION:UN75: The Journey Continues\nYou’re Invited to Our Special Roundtable\nCelebrating the 75th anniversary of the United Nations and understanding its challenges going forward.\n \nPresented by Members of the World Affairs Councils of America\nWorldDenver\, International Relations Council – Kansas City\, World Affairs Council of Harrisburg and the Tennessee World Affairs Council\nWednesday December 9th\n ET 7-8:15 | CT 6-7:15 | MT 5-6:15\nWelcome: Matthew Hughes\, Executive Director\, International Relations Council\, Kansas City \nIntroduction: Patrick Ryan\, President\, Tennessee World Affairs Council \nKeynote: Ambassador Thomas R. Pickering \nModerator: Joyce Davis\, President\, World Affairs Council of Harrisburg \nPanel: \n\nHon Gérard Araud\, former Ambassador of France to the United States and former Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations (Confirmed)\nLinda Fasulo\, NPR Correspondent at the UN\, author “An Insider’s Guide to the UN” (Confirmed)\nSamuel Rushay\, Supervisory Archivist\, Harry S. Truman Library and Museum (Confirmed)\nDustin Liu\, UNA USA Youth Representative\n\n \n \nSPONSORS \nInterested in sponsoring this special roundtable on “UN75: The Journey Continues”? Contact Patrick Ryan (pat@tnwac.org | 931.261.2353) \nThis joint World Affairs Councils program is made possible by individuals and institutions like you\, including these. \nThanks to Nashville Cordell Hull Chapter UNA-USA President Bob Teague and our friends in the Chapter for the generous support of this program. \n \nThanks to an individual providing a $1\,000 contribution in the name of the UN Association USA\, Greater Kansas City Chapter. \n \n \nThomas 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. \nGérard Araud \nAmbassador Araud was a French diplomat for more than three decades\, earning the highest rank in the French diplomatic service\, “Ambassadeur de France.” He served as Ambassador of France to the United States from 2014 to 2019. He was also France’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York and France’s Ambassador to Israel. \nAraud held numerous other senior positions within the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development\, including Director General for Political Affairs and Security and Director for Strategic Affairs\, Security\, and Disarmament (2000-2003). He also served as the French negotiator on the Iranian nuclear issue from 2006 to 2009. \nAmbassador Araud is a trustee of the International Crisis Group and a Senior Distinguished Fellow at the Atlantic Council. He is a regular contributor on international affairs for the French weekly Le Point\, French BFM TV\, and French public radio. He is also frequently interviewed by CNN International\, the BBC\, and other English-language media. \nAmbassador Araud is based in New York. \nLinda Fasulo \nLinda Fasulo is a journalist and author specializing in the United Nations and US foreign policy. Based at the United Nations\, Linda is UN Correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC as well as a long-time independent correspondent for National Public Radio (NPR). She also worked for several years as special UN correspondent for US News and World Report. \nHer book\, An Insider’s Guide to the UN\, published by Yale University Press\, was selected by School Library Journal as one of the best adult books for high school students and has received much critical acclaim. Tom Brokaw\, NBC News writes\, “No one knows the big picture and inner workings of the UN better than Linda Fasulo. This book is must-read for anyone interested in international affairs\,” and Joseph S. Nye\, of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government says that the book “will become the indispensable source on the United Nations for everyone from students to diplomats. I keep it handy on my desk.” An updated second edition of An Insider’s Guide to the UN will be published next year. \nLinda is an honorary fellow of the Foreign Policy Association\, and she has served as an officer and board member of the Overseas Press Club and the United Nations Correspondents Association. \nSam Rushay \nSupervisory Archivist\, Harry S. Truman Library and Museum.  Sam Rushay has worked at the National Archives and Records Administration for 27 years. He is the supervisory archivist at the Harry S. Truman Library and Museum in Independence\, MO\, where he worked as an archivist from 1993-1997. From 1997-2007\, he was an archivist and subject matter expert at the Nixon Presidential Materials Staff at the National Archives in College Park\, Maryland. Rushay has published articles about Richard Nixon and Harry Truman. A Columbus\, Ohio\, native\, he earned a B.A. in U.S. History from Ohio State University and obtained a M.A. and Ph.D. in U.S. history from Ohio University.\n  \nhttps://youtu.be/oQVdf5Eib6g \n  \n\nAcross this anniversary year\, we have engaged in a global conversation. And the results are striking. People are thinking big – they are also expressing an intense yearning for international cooperation and global solidarity. Now is the time to respond to these aspirations and realize these aims. In this 75th anniversary year\, we face our own 1945 moment. We must meet that moment. We must show unity like never before to overcome today’s emergency\, get the world moving and working and prospering again\, and uphold the vision of the Charter. \n–UN Secretary-General António Guterres \nPresented by Members of the World Affairs Councils of America\nWorldDenver\, International Relations Council – Kansas City\, World Affairs Council of Harrisburg and the Tennessee World Affairs Council\nWorld Affairs Councils are independent\, nonpartisan organizations dedicated to engaging the public and leading global voices to better understand the world\, America’s international role\, and the policy choices that impact our daily lives and our future. \n \n  \n \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:UN75: The Journey Continues | Special Program | Dec 9
DESCRIPTION:UN75: The Journey Continues\nYou’re Invited to Our Special Roundtable\nCelebrating the 75th anniversary of the United Nations and understanding its challenges going forward.\n \nPresented by Members of the World Affairs Councils of America\nWorldDenver\, International Relations Council – Kansas City\, World Affairs Council of Harrisburg and the Tennessee World Affairs Council\nWednesday December 9th\n ET 7-8:15 | CT 6-7:15 | MT 5-6:15\nWelcome: Matthew Hughes\, Executive Director\, International Relations Council\, Kansas City \nIntroduction: Patrick Ryan\, President\, Tennessee World Affairs Council \nKeynote: Ambassador Thomas R. Pickering \nModerator: Joyce Davis\, President\, World Affairs Council of Harrisburg \nPanel: \n\nHon Gérard Araud\, former Ambassador of France to the United States and former Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations (Confirmed)\nLinda Fasulo\, NPR Correspondent at the UN\, author “An Insider’s Guide to the UN” (Confirmed)\nSamuel Rushay\, Supervisory Archivist\, Harry S. Truman Library and Museum (Confirmed)\nDustin Liu\, UNA USA Youth Representative\n\n \n \nSPONSORS \nInterested in sponsoring this special roundtable on “UN75: The Journey Continues”? Contact Patrick Ryan (pat@tnwac.org | 931.261.2353) \nThis joint World Affairs Councils program is made possible by individuals and institutions like you\, including these. \nThanks to Nashville Cordell Hull Chapter UNA-USA President Bob Teague and our friends in the Chapter for the generous support of this program. \n \nThanks to an individual providing a $1\,000 contribution in the name of the UN Association USA\, Greater Kansas City Chapter. \n \n \nThomas 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. \nGérard Araud \nAmbassador Araud was a French diplomat for more than three decades\, earning the highest rank in the French diplomatic service\, “Ambassadeur de France.” He served as Ambassador of France to the United States from 2014 to 2019. He was also France’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York and France’s Ambassador to Israel. \nAraud held numerous other senior positions within the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development\, including Director General for Political Affairs and Security and Director for Strategic Affairs\, Security\, and Disarmament (2000-2003). He also served as the French negotiator on the Iranian nuclear issue from 2006 to 2009. \nAmbassador Araud is a trustee of the International Crisis Group and a Senior Distinguished Fellow at the Atlantic Council. He is a regular contributor on international affairs for the French weekly Le Point\, French BFM TV\, and French public radio. He is also frequently interviewed by CNN International\, the BBC\, and other English-language media. \nAmbassador Araud is based in New York. \nLinda Fasulo \nLinda Fasulo is a journalist and author specializing in the United Nations and US foreign policy. Based at the United Nations\, Linda is UN Correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC as well as a long-time independent correspondent for National Public Radio (NPR). She also worked for several years as special UN correspondent for US News and World Report. \nHer book\, An Insider’s Guide to the UN\, published by Yale University Press\, was selected by School Library Journal as one of the best adult books for high school students and has received much critical acclaim. Tom Brokaw\, NBC News writes\, “No one knows the big picture and inner workings of the UN better than Linda Fasulo. This book is must-read for anyone interested in international affairs\,” and Joseph S. Nye\, of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government says that the book “will become the indispensable source on the United Nations for everyone from students to diplomats. I keep it handy on my desk.” An updated second edition of An Insider’s Guide to the UN will be published next year. \nLinda is an honorary fellow of the Foreign Policy Association\, and she has served as an officer and board member of the Overseas Press Club and the United Nations Correspondents Association. \nSam Rushay \nSupervisory Archivist\, Harry S. Truman Library and Museum.  Sam Rushay has worked at the National Archives and Records Administration for 27 years. He is the supervisory archivist at the Harry S. Truman Library and Museum in Independence\, MO\, where he worked as an archivist from 1993-1997. From 1997-2007\, he was an archivist and subject matter expert at the Nixon Presidential Materials Staff at the National Archives in College Park\, Maryland. Rushay has published articles about Richard Nixon and Harry Truman. A Columbus\, Ohio\, native\, he earned a B.A. in U.S. History from Ohio State University and obtained a M.A. and Ph.D. in U.S. history from Ohio University.\n  \nhttps://youtu.be/oQVdf5Eib6g \n  \n\nAcross this anniversary year\, we have engaged in a global conversation. And the results are striking. People are thinking big – they are also expressing an intense yearning for international cooperation and global solidarity. Now is the time to respond to these aspirations and realize these aims. In this 75th anniversary year\, we face our own 1945 moment. We must meet that moment. We must show unity like never before to overcome today’s emergency\, get the world moving and working and prospering again\, and uphold the vision of the Charter. \n–UN Secretary-General António Guterres \nPresented by Members of the World Affairs Councils of America\nWorldDenver\, International Relations Council – Kansas City\, World Affairs Council of Harrisburg and the Tennessee World Affairs Council\nWorld Affairs Councils are independent\, nonpartisan organizations dedicated to engaging the public and leading global voices to better understand the world\, America’s international role\, and the policy choices that impact our daily lives and our future. \n \n  \n \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:UN75: The Journey Continues | Special Program | Dec 9
DESCRIPTION:UN75: The Journey Continues\nYou’re Invited to Our Special Roundtable\nCelebrating the 75th anniversary of the United Nations and understanding its challenges going forward.\n \nPresented by Members of the World Affairs Councils of America\nWorldDenver\, International Relations Council – Kansas City\, World Affairs Council of Harrisburg and the Tennessee World Affairs Council\nWednesday December 9th\n ET 7-8:15 | CT 6-7:15 | MT 5-6:15\nWelcome: Matthew Hughes\, Executive Director\, International Relations Council\, Kansas City \nIntroduction: Patrick Ryan\, President\, Tennessee World Affairs Council \nKeynote: Ambassador Thomas R. Pickering \nModerator: Joyce Davis\, President\, World Affairs Council of Harrisburg \nPanel: \n\nHon Gérard Araud\, former Ambassador of France to the United States and former Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations (Confirmed)\nLinda Fasulo\, NPR Correspondent at the UN\, author “An Insider’s Guide to the UN” (Confirmed)\nSamuel Rushay\, Supervisory Archivist\, Harry S. Truman Library and Museum (Confirmed)\nDustin Liu\, UNA USA Youth Representative\n\n \n \nSPONSORS \nInterested in sponsoring this special roundtable on “UN75: The Journey Continues”? Contact Patrick Ryan (pat@tnwac.org | 931.261.2353) \nThis joint World Affairs Councils program is made possible by individuals and institutions like you\, including these. \nThanks to Nashville Cordell Hull Chapter UNA-USA President Bob Teague and our friends in the Chapter for the generous support of this program. \n \nThanks to an individual providing a $1\,000 contribution in the name of the UN Association USA\, Greater Kansas City Chapter. \n \n \nThomas 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. \nGérard Araud \nAmbassador Araud was a French diplomat for more than three decades\, earning the highest rank in the French diplomatic service\, “Ambassadeur de France.” He served as Ambassador of France to the United States from 2014 to 2019. He was also France’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York and France’s Ambassador to Israel. \nAraud held numerous other senior positions within the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development\, including Director General for Political Affairs and Security and Director for Strategic Affairs\, Security\, and Disarmament (2000-2003). He also served as the French negotiator on the Iranian nuclear issue from 2006 to 2009. \nAmbassador Araud is a trustee of the International Crisis Group and a Senior Distinguished Fellow at the Atlantic Council. He is a regular contributor on international affairs for the French weekly Le Point\, French BFM TV\, and French public radio. He is also frequently interviewed by CNN International\, the BBC\, and other English-language media. \nAmbassador Araud is based in New York. \nLinda Fasulo \nLinda Fasulo is a journalist and author specializing in the United Nations and US foreign policy. Based at the United Nations\, Linda is UN Correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC as well as a long-time independent correspondent for National Public Radio (NPR). She also worked for several years as special UN correspondent for US News and World Report. \nHer book\, An Insider’s Guide to the UN\, published by Yale University Press\, was selected by School Library Journal as one of the best adult books for high school students and has received much critical acclaim. Tom Brokaw\, NBC News writes\, “No one knows the big picture and inner workings of the UN better than Linda Fasulo. This book is must-read for anyone interested in international affairs\,” and Joseph S. Nye\, of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government says that the book “will become the indispensable source on the United Nations for everyone from students to diplomats. I keep it handy on my desk.” An updated second edition of An Insider’s Guide to the UN will be published next year. \nLinda is an honorary fellow of the Foreign Policy Association\, and she has served as an officer and board member of the Overseas Press Club and the United Nations Correspondents Association. \nSam Rushay \nSupervisory Archivist\, Harry S. Truman Library and Museum.  Sam Rushay has worked at the National Archives and Records Administration for 27 years. He is the supervisory archivist at the Harry S. Truman Library and Museum in Independence\, MO\, where he worked as an archivist from 1993-1997. From 1997-2007\, he was an archivist and subject matter expert at the Nixon Presidential Materials Staff at the National Archives in College Park\, Maryland. Rushay has published articles about Richard Nixon and Harry Truman. A Columbus\, Ohio\, native\, he earned a B.A. in U.S. History from Ohio State University and obtained a M.A. and Ph.D. in U.S. history from Ohio University.\n  \nhttps://youtu.be/oQVdf5Eib6g \n  \n\nAcross this anniversary year\, we have engaged in a global conversation. And the results are striking. People are thinking big – they are also expressing an intense yearning for international cooperation and global solidarity. Now is the time to respond to these aspirations and realize these aims. In this 75th anniversary year\, we face our own 1945 moment. We must meet that moment. We must show unity like never before to overcome today’s emergency\, get the world moving and working and prospering again\, and uphold the vision of the Charter. \n–UN Secretary-General António Guterres \nPresented by Members of the World Affairs Councils of America\nWorldDenver\, International Relations Council – Kansas City\, World Affairs Council of Harrisburg and the Tennessee World Affairs Council\nWorld Affairs Councils are independent\, nonpartisan organizations dedicated to engaging the public and leading global voices to better understand the world\, America’s international role\, and the policy choices that impact our daily lives and our future. \n \n  \n \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Global News Review | Dec 9
DESCRIPTION:Global News Review – December 9\, 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  \nHere’s our December 9th topics:\n\n\n\n2021 – What’s in Store for America in the World\n\n\nIran: Maximum Pressure at the Barrel of a Gun\n\n\nBrexit: Disorderly Conduct\n\n\n\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\n[raw] \n\n \n\n[/raw]
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CATEGORIES:Distinguished Speaker Series
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SUMMARY:Kate Burke\, Alliance Bernstein COO | Global Nashville with Karl Dean | Dec 8
DESCRIPTION:> \n\nGlobal Nashville with Karl Dean\n \n\nKarl Dean\, former Nashville Mayor talks with community leaders about the things that make \nNashville a global city.\nJoin Mayor Dean For a Conversation With \nKate Burke\nChief Operating Officer\, Alliance Bernstein\n \nTuesday\, December 8\, 2020\n7:00 p.m. CT\nRegister below \n  \nChief Operating Officer Kate Burke who oversaw the relocation of AB’s New York office to Nashville will join former Nashville Mayor Karl Dean on Tuesday\, December 8\, 2020 at 7pm CT on our “Global Nashville with Karl Dean” Webinar to talk about: the choice of Nashville for its corporate expansion\, the company’s international operations\, and its integration into the fabric of the community. You are invited to join the conversation. \nYou may have seen the AllianceBernstein (AB) sign go up on the tower rising at Fifth+Broadway. The new permanent downtown offices for AB will complete the investment of $11.4 million and creation of 200 new jobs in Nashville\, as noted by “BusinessFacilities.com.” The expansion of the global financial firm that has approximately $623 million in assets under management and offices in 25 countries is one of Tennessee’s most consequential economic development wins in recent years\, according to Governor Bill Lee. He said\, “The creation of hundreds of quality jobs will provide tremendous benefits to the entire Middle Tennessee region.” \nThe importance of the AB investment was echoed by TNECD Commissioner Bob Rolfe who said\, “It’s hard to overstate how significant AB’s commitment to Nashville is for our state. Once fully operational\, AB will have more than 1\,250 employees here in Middle Tennessee\, making it one of downtown Nashville’s largest employers. We’re incredibly honored that a company of this caliber has so quickly established deep roots in Tennessee and continues to create extremely well-paying and high-quality jobs in Nashville.” \nOn Opening Business in Nashville: \n“We focused around what was culturally important to us\, which was our diverse population in New York. We wanted to move to a city and find a community in which (our employees) would feel comfortable.” \n“We consistently kept hearing\, here in Nashville\, just how much people recognized the positives and the challenges of what the city was going through\, and there was a collective responsibility to solve it and that… was very appealing\, because not only did that align well with our corporate values\, but it also let us see that we can come here and be a good corporate citizen as well.” \nKate Burke\,  Vanderbilt Distinguished Speaker Series\, October 16\, 2019 \n“As AB continues to plant roots in Nashville and Middle Tennessee\, we have been so grateful for the warm welcome our firm has received from this vibrant and growing region. Nashville’s core values and talents are an excellent match for our firm\, and we look forward to expanding our presence here. We are committed to being a member of Nashville’s vital business community and contributing to and investing in the city’s continued success.” \nAB President and CEO Seth Bernstein \n“We have a global brand of music\, creativity and a very vibrant community\, a community that is open to any population from any part of the world. Nashville has been a place where people from all over the world have come to and stay here. Nashville has a great location\, very stable state and local governments and a population that is warm\, engaging and open and welcoming. We continue to promote those assets. We continue to let people know Nashville is open for business on an international basis and we see great success.  \nThere are the Bridgestones\, the Nissans\, the AllianceBernsteins — all of these big businesses that are international in nature\, they are invested here and we continue to encourage that. We find an awful lot that businesses that are looking to locate their business activity in Nashville and other places are looking for the compatibility of the community.  \n“I love to tell the story of AllianceBernsten\, because typically businesses will want to know where is their workforce coming from when they get here. AllianceBernstein was a little different. The first question they asked us was\, can you set up meetings with 22 community cultural organizations so that we can really understand what the culture of the community is.” \nRalph Schulz\, Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce CEO\, “Global Nashville with Karl Dean” April 14\, 2020 \n“AllianceBernstein L.P. (AB) will invest $11.4 million and create 200 additional jobs at its global headquarters in Nashville\, TN. The expansion will bring the global asset management firm’s planned investment in Nashville to more than $80 million. In May 2018\, the company announced plans to relocate its headquarters from New York City to Nashville and bring 1\,050 jobs to Middle Tennessee.” \nBusiness Facilities\, January 14\, 2020 \n  \nKate Burke is the Chief Operating Officer of AB\, responsible for overseeing Legal\, Compliance\, Corporate Communications\, Human Capital\, Corporate and Information Security\, Operations\, and Technology. She was previously chief administrative officer\, and\, prior to that\, head of Human Capital and chief talent officer. Burke has more than two decades of financial services and consulting industry experience. She joined Bernstein Research in 2004 in institutional sales\, where she rose to senior vice president and managing director\, overseeing institutional sales teams in the Midwest\, New York and Canada. Prior to joining the firm\, Burke was a manager at A.T. Kearney\, where she led client cross-divisional organizational development programs. She holds a BA in economics from College of the Holy Cross and an MBA from Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Location: Nashville \nAB in Nashville \n“AB is an asset-management and research firm with a unique combination of expertise\, ingenious solutions and global reach. We attract the industry’s best talent—our people have the relentless drive and ingenuity to spark innovative ideas. We’re truly global. We’ve built an extensive and integrated global footprint over five decades\, giving us the broadest possible perspective and we’re now expanding to Nashville. \n“AB is a leading global investment-management and research firm. We bring together a wide range of insights\, expertise and innovations to advance the interests of our clients around the world.” \n\n“Global Nashville with Karl Dean” is a Webinar program produced by the Tennessee World Affairs Council as part of its global affairs awareness education mission. “GNKD” features conversations with community leaders from government\, business\, nonprofits\, “new American” groups\, academia and others\, with a perspective on the issues and developments that connect to the idea of Nashville as a “global place.” The Webinar is featured on every other Tuesday at 7pm and is archived on the YouTube.com/TNWAC channel and “Global Tennessee” Podcast family. \nThe Tennessee World Affairs Council is a nonpartisan\, educational\, nonprofit charity that seeks to bring the world to our community. TNWAC is an IRS 501c3 registered charity and its community and education outreach efforts are made possible by individual and corporate members\, grants and gifts. \n[raw] \n\n \n\n[/raw]
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CATEGORIES:Global Nashville
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SUMMARY:Global News Review | Dec 2
DESCRIPTION:Global News Review – December 2\, 2020\nSpecial Edition\n2021 – What’s in Store for America in the World\nWith Special Guest Ambassador John Kornblum\nFormer U.S. Ambassador to Germany and Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs\nAnd The Usual Gang of Three\nAmbassador Charles (Dick) Bowers\, U.S. Foreign Service (Retired)\nFormer U.S. Ambassador to Bolivia\nDr. Breck Walker\, Ph.D.\nHistorian of U.S. Foreign Policy\nLCDR Patrick Ryan\, USN(Ret)\nFormer Naval Intelligence Officer\nWednesday\, December 2\, 2020 @ 1pm CT\nRegister Below \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 \nJoin our team of Ambassador Dick Bowers\, Dr. Breck Walker and LCDR Patrick Ryan for expert analysis of current global developments.\nSPECIAL GUEST \nAmbassador John 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. \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]
URL:https://www.tnwac.org/event/global-news-review-dec-2/
CATEGORIES:Distinguished Speaker Series
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SUMMARY:Special Program | Rwanda: In the Face of Genocide | Wed 12pm
DESCRIPTION:The Tennessee World Affairs Council is pleased to partner with the Nebraska World Affairs Council and the Indiana World Affairs Council to bring you a special program.  \n  \n \nTo confirm your place and to receive the Zoom link information to participate\, please make a reservation through the Eventbrite page at the Register button below. \n \nAfter making your reservation\, please watch for emails from the Eventbrite system to receive confirmation of your registration and other details you will need to join the Webinar in Zoom. \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.
URL:https://www.tnwac.org/event/special-program-rwanda-in-the-face-of-genocide-wed-12pm/
CATEGORIES:Distinguished Speaker Series
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SUMMARY:Special Program | Rwanda: In the Face of Genocide | Wed 12pm
DESCRIPTION:The Tennessee World Affairs Council is pleased to partner with the Nebraska World Affairs Council and the Indiana World Affairs Council to bring you a special program.  \n  \n \nTo confirm your place and to receive the Zoom link information to participate\, please make a reservation through the Eventbrite page at the Register button below. \n \nAfter making your reservation\, please watch for emails from the Eventbrite system to receive confirmation of your registration and other details you will need to join the Webinar in Zoom. \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.
URL:https://www.tnwac.org/event/special-program-rwanda-in-the-face-of-genocide-wed-12pm-3/
CATEGORIES:Distinguished Speaker Series
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SUMMARY:Special Program | Rwanda: In the Face of Genocide | Wed 12pm
DESCRIPTION:The Tennessee World Affairs Council is pleased to partner with the Nebraska World Affairs Council and the Indiana World Affairs Council to bring you a special program.  \n  \n \nTo confirm your place and to receive the Zoom link information to participate\, please make a reservation through the Eventbrite page at the Register button below. \n \nAfter making your reservation\, please watch for emails from the Eventbrite system to receive confirmation of your registration and other details you will need to join the Webinar in Zoom. \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.
URL:https://www.tnwac.org/event/special-program-rwanda-in-the-face-of-genocide-wed-12pm-4/
CATEGORIES:Distinguished Speaker Series
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SUMMARY:Special Program | Rwanda: In the Face of Genocide | Wed 12pm
DESCRIPTION:The Tennessee World Affairs Council is pleased to partner with the Nebraska World Affairs Council and the Indiana World Affairs Council to bring you a special program.  \n  \n \nTo confirm your place and to receive the Zoom link information to participate\, please make a reservation through the Eventbrite page at the Register button below. \n \nAfter making your reservation\, please watch for emails from the Eventbrite system to receive confirmation of your registration and other details you will need to join the Webinar in Zoom. \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.
URL:https://www.tnwac.org/event/special-program-rwanda-in-the-face-of-genocide-wed-12pm-2/
CATEGORIES:Distinguished Speaker Series
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SUMMARY:Special Event | Virtual International Trivia Contest | Friday 10a-12p
DESCRIPTION:Tennessee World Affairs Council expresses appreciation to our friends at  \nthe Peoria Area World Affairs Council for the invitation to participate in their trivia program. \n \nTrivia!\nSpecial Event!\nVirtual International Trivia Contest\nFriday\, November 27\n10:00 am – 12:00 pm CT\n\nSince it looks like Black Friday shopping in person may be out and we will all be quarantined with our Thanksgiving guests\, join us for some fun! \nThis International Trivia Contest will be virtual. You will play on MyQuiz.org\, with the questions being read on Zoom. \nClick here to register for some good fun and a test of how well you know the world and pay attention to the news. The Peoria Area World Affairs Council is inviting you to this contest – you are not going to want to miss these bragging rights! \nNote: the link to the game on MyQuiz will be sent to those who have registered by Friday at 8 am. MyQuiz is a free\, downloadable app. \n  \n \nLet our Peoria friends see how well Tennesseans know the world! \n\n\nTHANKS TO OUR PARTNERS IN GLOBAL AFFAIRS AWARENESS AND EDUCATION OUTREACH \n \n \nTHANKS TO OUR WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCILS  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.
URL:https://www.tnwac.org/event/special-event-virtual-international-trivia-contest/
CATEGORIES:Distinguished Speaker Series
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SUMMARY:Special Event | Virtual International Trivia Contest | Friday 10a-12p
DESCRIPTION:Tennessee World Affairs Council expresses appreciation to our friends at  \nthe Peoria Area World Affairs Council for the invitation to participate in their trivia program. \n \nTrivia!\nSpecial Event!\nVirtual International Trivia Contest\nFriday\, November 27\n10:00 am – 12:00 pm CT\n\nSince it looks like Black Friday shopping in person may be out and we will all be quarantined with our Thanksgiving guests\, join us for some fun! \nThis International Trivia Contest will be virtual. You will play on MyQuiz.org\, with the questions being read on Zoom. \nClick here to register for some good fun and a test of how well you know the world and pay attention to the news. The Peoria Area World Affairs Council is inviting you to this contest – you are not going to want to miss these bragging rights! \nNote: the link to the game on MyQuiz will be sent to those who have registered by Friday at 8 am. MyQuiz is a free\, downloadable app. \n  \n \nLet our Peoria friends see how well Tennesseans know the world! \n\n\nTHANKS TO OUR PARTNERS IN GLOBAL AFFAIRS AWARENESS AND EDUCATION OUTREACH \n \n \nTHANKS TO OUR WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCILS  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.
URL:https://www.tnwac.org/event/special-event-virtual-international-trivia-contest-3/
CATEGORIES:Distinguished Speaker Series
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