“THE WORLD AHEAD 2025: TOP 10 TRENDS TO WATCH” Monday, December 9, 2024 I 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm After an unprecedented year of elections, new leaders around the globe who have promised change will be expected to deliver in 2025. The world will also be coming to terms with the outcome of America’s...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
To mark the occasion of visiting distinguished speaker Ambassador Charles Ray’s Tuesday programs in Nashville, TNWAC Chairman Karl Dean and President Emeritus shared their perspective on American diplomacy and its preparation for America’s future on the world stage. This column, their own views, was published in The Tennessean on January 21, 2024. Is American diplomacy...Read More
The Tennessee World Affairs Council seeks to expand civic conversations so the community can be informed and engaged on important issues of the day. One issue for discussion is the United States Foreign Service and the role and function of diplomacy to advance America’s interests abroad. To bring this conversation to our community TNWAC is...Read More
TO SPONSOR AMBASSADOR RAY’S PROGRAMS IN NASHVILLE CONTACT [email protected] PRESENTS DISTINGUISHED VISITING SPEAKER PROGRAM LUNCHEON AND GLOBAL TOWN HALL Blueprints for a More Modern US Diplomatic Service Ambassador Charles Ray U.S. Foreign Service (Retired), Chair, Africa Program and Trustee, Foreign Policy Research Instittute & Former U.S. Ambassador to Cambodia and Zimbabwe Tuesday, January 23,...Read More
The Tennessee World Affairs Council seeks to expand civic conversations so the community can be informed and engaged on important issues of the day. One issue for discussion is the United States Foreign Service and the role and function of diplomacy to advance America’s interests abroad. To bring this conversation to our community TNWAC is...Read More
TO SPONSOR AMBASSADOR RAY’S PROGRAMS IN NASHVILLE CONTACT [email protected] AND PRESENT DISTINGUISHED VISITING SPEAKER GLOBAL TOWN HALL Blueprints for a More Modern US Diplomatic Service Ambassador Charles Ray U.S. Foreign Service (Retired), Chair, Africa Program and Trustee, Foreign Policy Research Instittute & Former U.S. Ambassador to Cambodia and Zimbabwe Tuesday, January 23, 2024 BELMONT...Read More
As we bring 2023 to a close and celebrate our faiths and our holidays may I again extend best wishes from our families to yours for seasons greetings and happy holidays. - Dr. Liane Hentschke, Executive DirectorRead More
CLICK IMAGE FOR QUIZ Thanks to our quiz question writers this week: Lucy Love Haman, Tim Douglas, 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 of our work to...Read More
"We're at a moment in this period of great power competition, whether or not you want to call it a second Cold War, where the national security imperatives of dealing with a resurgent China and a disruptor in Russia require us to go back to the drawing board on our soft power instruments to respond...Read More
