This episode was a terrific panel of State Department Office of Policy Planning staff officers who talked with our moderator, Professor Thomas Schwartz of Vanderbilt, about the "longer term, strategic view of global trends. It was a good tour d'horizon of foreign policy challenges especially the shift to "Great Power" issues.

Panelists:

Martha Simms, whose portfolio includes counterterrorism, diplomatic security and Western Europe. She was previously Special Advisor to the Counterterrorism Coordinator, and before working at the State Department, she was on the House Homeland Security Committee under Chairman Michael McCaul, working on foreign policy and terrorism screening policy.

Shawanesh Underwood covers NATO, Nordic Baltics and Southern Europe issues. Shawanesh previously served in the Press and Public Outreach Office in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs.

Colonel William Schaum is a U.S. Army Senior Service Advisor to the Department of State. He previously served as the Chief of the Office of Defense Cooperation in the Republic of Turkey. Prior duties included extensive assignments across the Middle East and in stateside assignments focused on that region.

Moderator Thomas Schwartz

Professor Thomas Schwartz, Professor of Political Science and Professor of European Studies; Vanderbilt University.

His considerable academic credentials are also on the web site, but I’ll mention he is the author of Henry Kissinger and American Power: A Political Biography, to be published in September 2020.

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