Global Tennessee

Ambassador Charles "Dick" Bowers and LCDR Patrick Ryan tick through the top 5 items in the week's news and provide analysis and commentary.

Topics:

1 – Covid Update

2 – The Book – “The Room Where It Happened” - Bolton

3 – The Finish of the Start? – The future of nuclear arms control

4 – The Finish of the Love Affairs – Pyongyang Acting Up

5 – The Finish of American Deterrence in Europe – Troop Reductions in Germany

Charles 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.

Patrick 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.

Ambassador Charles "Dick" Bowers and LCDR Patrick Ryan tick through the top 5 items in the week's news and provide analysis and commentary.

Topics:

1 - Global Solidarity BLM/George Floyd

2 - Troop Reductions in Germany

3 - China Propaganda Attacks

4 - Libya

5 - Israel West Bank Annexation

Charles 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.

Patrick 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.

Recorded June 9, 2020

Designing an Economic Model for Nashville as a city of the Future

Join former Nashville Mayor Karl Dean in his conversation with Amr El-Husseini, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, consultant, and business leader in what will be a stimulating conversation about the future of Nashville’s economy in the wake of current global events. As founder and CEO of Lodestone Advisory Group in Nashville, Amr will share his specialized insights and perspectives on the business challenges that, amplified by the Covid-19 pandemic, requires cities like Nashville to pivot and reposition themselves for growth. He will talk about the need to focus Nashville business growth on creating jobs of the future from within the community rather than investing scarce resources on importing jobs, creating high quality jobs that spawn expansion of a knowledge economy – an ecosystem of jobs that are “sticky” and resilient to economic challenges. Amr will reflect on the experiences of cities that recreated themselves through innovation, entrepreneurship and smart investing. He will also address the implications of the “new normal” in the global economy, what that means for different industries, and how economies around the world could become more connected than before. You don’t want to miss this edition of “Global Nashville with Karl Dean” and Amr El-Husseini discussing inclusive economic models for Nashville as a city of the future.

Amr El-Husseini

A seasoned global investor and strategist, Amr has worked across five continents over the course of his career in corporate development, venture capital, turnaround and transformation, corporate strategy, innovation and entrepreneurship, international expansion, and investment banking. Prior to founding Lodestone, Amr served in several capacities, the last of which was the Head of International Development at the QIB Group. There, he was responsible for the bank’s international operations and strategic investments (M&A, Ventures and Integrations) as well as the bank’s international network stretching from the UK to Malaysia, where he led a number of successful turnarounds and restructuring assignments. Amr’s role with QIB also involved the development and execution of the bank’s international expansion strategy. Continued at TNWAC.org

Recorded: June 10, 2020

Special Episode: Global Dialogue International Speakers Program

This episode featured Rachael Dean Wilson and David Salvo of the Alliance for Securing Democracy and moderator Mark Braden of the World Affairs Council Board of Directors.

Foreign interference in our democracy isn’t just about Russia – and it shouldn’t be a partisan issue. Foreign-backed cyberattacks, disinformation campaigns, and hack and leak efforts aimed at damaging our democratic system only exacerbate the uncertainty caused by the coronavirus pandemic. China has shown an increasing willingness to adopt more aggressive “Russian-style” information manipulation tactics to mislead Americans about the coronavirus. U.S. state and local officials are rightfully working to adjust election day plans to account for the pandemic, and foreign actors could seize on changes to try to mislead Americans about the voting process. Ultimately, these efforts are part of a longer continuum to undermine democracy in the United States, regardless of who occupies the White House or which party controls Congress. Rachael Dean Wilson and Dave Salvo from the bipartisan Alliance for Securing Democracy discussed the tools and tactics used by authoritarian actors like Russia, China, and Iran to accomplish these goals ahead of the 2020 election and beyond.

Ref: https://securingdemocracy.gmfus.org/

Ambassador Charles "Dick" Bowers and LCDR Patrick Ryan tick through the top 5 items in the week's news and provide analysis and commentary. This week the were joined by Gillian Sjoblom, guest co-host, to talk about the recent release of the 2020 Global Peace Index.

Topics:

1 – Global Covid Update

2 – U.S.-Iraq Strategic Talks

3 – Global Peace Index

4 – U.S. Civil Protests Resonating Around the World

5 – Press Freedom Under Attack – The Case of the Philippines

Charles 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.

Gillian Sjoblom is a volunteer on the staff of the Tennessee World Affairs Council. She is a student at Wellesley College in Massachusetts where she majors in International Relations/Political Science. Gillian is a 2019 graduate of Hume-Fogg Academic High School in Nashville Tennessee. She was on the team of Hume-Fogg students who won the 2019 Academic WorldQuest Championship of the TNWAC and represented Tennessee at the National Championship match in Washington, D.C.

Patrick 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.

In this episode recorded June 16, 2020, TNWAC President Patrick Ryan talks with Nancy Lindborg, President of the United States Institute of Peace (USIP). They discussed:

- Ms. Lindborg's background and how she came to work in international affairs especially the world of peace and conflict.

- The United States Institute of Peace, in its 35th year, its mission and functions and the work it does around the world and in America.

- Ms. Lindborg's experiences abroad in her job as USIP President including programs with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, whose vision overlaps the USIP mission statement.

- The mobilization of a new peace and justice movement in the United States and how that's reflected globally, and Ms. Lindborg's recent statement on the USIP.org web site.

- The many excellent questions from the Webinar participants, such as the importance and role of women in peace-building efforts; USIP education outreach for young people, and prospects for peace in places like South Sudan, South Asia and the Balkans.

Nancy Lindborg has served as the president and CEO of the U.S. Institute of Peace since February 2015. Created by Congress in 1984 as an independent, nonpartisan, federally funded institute to prevent, mitigate, and resolve violent conflict around the world, USIP links research, policy, training and direct action with partners in conflict-affected areas. Prior to joining USIP, she served as the assistant administrator for the Bureau for Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance (DCHA) at USAID. From 2010 through 2014, Ms. Lindborg directed the efforts of more than 600 team members in nine offices focused on crisis prevention, response, recovery and transition. She also led response teams for some of the biggest challenges the world was facing at the time, including the crisis in Syria, the droughts in the Sahel and the Horn of Africa, the Arab Spring, as well as the Ebola crisis. For more visit: https://www.usip.org/people/nancy-lindborg

Karl Dean, former Nashville Mayor talks with Dr. James Hildreth about the Covid-19 global pandemic.

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James E.K. Hildreth, Ph.D., M.D. is the 12th president and chief executive officer of Meharry Medical College, the nation’s largest private, independent historically black academic health sciences center.

James E.K. Hildreth, Ph.D., M.D., was born and raised in Camden, Arkansas. In 1975, he began undergraduate studies at Harvard University and was selected as the first African-American Rhodes Scholar from Arkansas in 1978. He graduated from Harvard magna cum laude in chemistry in 1979. That fall, Dr. Hildreth enrolled at Oxford University in England, graduating with a Ph.D. in immunology in 1982. On July 1, 2015, Dr. Hildreth returned to Meharry Medical College to serve as the 12th president and chief executive officer of the nation’s largest private, independent historically black academic health sciences center.

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This Week's Topics:

1 – Covid News –

• The Numbers

• UK – L’affaire Dominic

• The Americas – New Global Hotspot

• WHO and hydroxychloroquine - safety fears

2 – China – Two Sessions

3 – China – Hong Kong

4 – Brazil – Bolsonaro and Covid

5 – North Korea and Nuclear Deterrence

Ambassador Charles Bowers (U.S. Foreign Service (Retired))

Charles 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.

LCDR Patrick Ryan, USN (Ret), President, Tennessee World Affairs Council

Patrick 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.

Consul General Staunton provides an update on the UK response to Covid-19, Brexit and the U.S.-UK Trade Agreement negotiations that are just beginning. Moderating the event was British Honorary Consul and IBC advisory board member John Scannapieco.

Americans and the British are jointly battling the new stormy seas of global pandemic and economic disaster that pose unimagined complications to the already challenging questions of commercial ties as the UK enters the era of Brexit and national security questions as Washington backtracks on international obligations. Yet, the generations old special relationship between Americans and British allies remains as the glue that forms the mutual interest of the relationship. Watch this Webinar with UK Consul General Staunton talking about the paramount strategic consequences of U.S.-UK trade and investment and security challenges that impact our nation and states.

Supporting partners for the event included Baker Donelson, the Center for International Business at Belmont University and the Tennessee World Affairs Council.

As part of Harvard’s American Diplomacy Project: A Foreign Service for the 21st Century, Americans who are “tuned in” to world affairs are asked to contribute their perspectives to this non-partisan national discussion of how to revitalize and modernize American diplomacy and the U.S. Foreign Service. The goal is to generate specific proposals to be published in a Harvard University report for the White House, Congress and the Department of State in the winter of 2020.

Video of this program: https://youtu.be/53MM6oxLIKs

As part of Harvard’s American Diplomacy Project: A Foreign Service for the 21st Century, Americans who are “tuned in” to world affairs are asked to contribute their perspectives to this non-partisan national discussion of how to revitalize and modernize American diplomacy and the U.S. Foreign Service. The goal is to generate specific proposals to be published in a Harvard University report for the White House, Congress and the Department of State in the winter of 2020.

Ambassador (Ret.) Marcie Ries is a Senior Fellow at the Belfer Center’s Future of Diplomacy Project. She is also a Senior Advisor in the Department of State’s Foreign Service Institute Leadership and Management School. During thirty-seven years of diplomatic service, she served in Europe, the Middle East, and the Caribbean. She is a three-time Chief of Mission, serving as Head of the U.S. Office Pristina, Kosovo (2003-2004); as United States Ambassador to Albania (2004-2007); and, most recently (2012-2015), as United States Ambassador to Bulgaria.

Charles 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.

Professor Thomas Schwartz -- Professor of History; Professor of Political Science; Professor of European Studies; Vanderbilt University. Thomas Alan Schwartz is a historian of the foreign relations of the United States, with related interests in Modern European history and the history of international relations. Professor Schwartz has held fellowships from the Social Science Research Council, the German Historical Society, the Norwegian Nobel Institute, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and the Center for the Study of European Integration. He has served as President of the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations. He served on the United States Department of State’s Historical Advisory Committee as the representative of the Organization of American Historians from 2005-2008.