Global Threats and Strategic Challenges Thursday, November 7th I 11:30 am – 1:00 pm * Luncheon Event – Registration Required * The world today is more volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous than it has been since WWII. It’s not just armed conflict and terrorism that affect where the U.S. Army goes, what they do, and...Read More
The Tennessee World Affairs Council International Careers Panel via Zoom PANELISTS: Dr. Sarah F. Gardial, Louis Fintor, Penelope Thomas, Soo Koo MODERATOR: Dr. Gretchen Neisler Do you wonder what jobs and careers there are in international affairs? There’s more than you think. Every Fall and Spring the World Affairs Council assembles diplomats, business...Read More
The Tennessee World Affairs Council is proud to present: Women in Peacebuilding: Global Perspectives In partnership with: featuring: Thursday, March 7, 2024 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. About the Speakers: Ana Maria González Forero Ana María González Forero is a passionate defender of ethnic human rights. For 25 years, she has worked...Read More
Dear Friends: . Today is #GivingTuesday! . This is a day when we come together to create a better world and to support the causes that we are passionate about. . As a stakeholder I know you are interested in sustaining the World Affairs Council’s work of informing the community about global issues and challenges...Read More
CLICK IMAGE FOR QUIZ Thanks to our quiz question writers this week: Lucy Love Haman, Tim Douglas, Celeste Wilson, Jim Shepherd, Breck Walker and Silas McClung We invite you to become members of the TNWAC no matter where you live. We welcome our friends from around the country and around the world to be part...Read More
CLICK IMAGE FOR QUIZ Thanks to our quiz question writers this week: Sam Waitt, Lucy Love Haman, Tim Douglas, Celeste Wilson, Jim Shepherd and Ashton Jolley We invite you to become members of the TNWAC no matter where you live. We welcome our friends from around the country and around the world to be part...Read More
CLICK IMAGE FOR QUIZ Thanks to our quiz question writers this week: Sam Waitt, Lucy Love Haman, Breck Walker, Tim Douglas, Celeste Wilson, and Jim Shepherd. We invite you to become members of the TNWAC no matter where you live. We welcome our friends from around the country and around the world to be part...Read More
Click for video The Tennessee World Affairs Council hosted General David Petraeus, US Army (Ret), for a discussion about his new book, “Conflict.” In a one-hour conversation with moderator Professor Thomas Schwartz, Petraeus covered strategic thinking and leadership, current military conflicts and questions on a variety of related topics from the luncheon audience at Belmont...Read More
SUPPORT GLOBAL AFFAIRS AWARNESS IN OUR SCHOOLS MAKE A GIFT TO SEND STUDENTS TO LUNCH WITH GENERAL DAVID PETRAEUS Please join me in sponsoring students at a table this Friday at the TNWAC luncheon and book signing with General David Petraeus. Your support to building an understanding of the world among students is important and...Read More
REGISTRATION HAS CLOSED Timely, engaging and instructive, “Conflict” is the best one-volume study of conventional warfare in the nuclear age. It sets a new benchmark in understanding modern war. – WSJ “Conflict: The Evolution of History from 1945 to Ukraine” is here — and so is this great review in the “The Wall Street...Read More
