Global Tennessee

Amb Dick Bowers and Pat Ryan host a weekly review of current global events with commentary and assessments on hot topics in the news. This week we welcome Dr. Marieta Velikova as a guest host. May 12, 2020 - This week's topics: 1 – Covid News – almost all Covid, all the time 2 – Russia and Election Interference – Part 1 – Background and Context 3 – Russia and Election Interference – Part 2 – Curre...

This week former Mayor Dean will talk with Doug Kreulen, the head of the Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority (MNAA) which overseas Nashville International Airport (BNA) and John C. Tune airport. They will talk about Doug’s background including his career in the US Air Force; the BNA Vision project; the damage at Tune airport from the Super Tuesday tornado; the impact of Covid-19 on BNA and th...

--Moderator, Ambassador William Luers, US Foreign Service (Retired), Director, The Iran Project --Dr. Gary Sick, Senior Research Scholar, Columbia University’s Middle East Institute and Adjunct Professor at the School of International and Public Affairs --Ellie Geranmayeh, Senior Policy Fellow and Deputy Program Head, Middle East and North Africa Program at the European Council on Foreign Relation...

This episode of the "Global Dialogue: International Speakers Program" organized by the Tennessee World Affairs Council (TNWAC.org) featured Jeremy Goldkorn and John Scannapieco with host Patrick Ryan (TNWAC President). This superb discussion of the current tension in the Sino-American relationship focused on the consequences of the Covid-19 virus spread, the commercial ties and the national securi...

Amb Dick Bowers and Pat Ryan host a weekly review of current global events with commentary and assessments on hot topics in the news. This week we welcome Dr. Marieta Velikova as a guest host. May 5, 2020 - This week's topics: 1 – Covid Update 2 – Covid and Its Impact on the Economy 3 – China – Strategic Friction 4 – China – Economic Implications 5 – Iran – Maximum Pressure meets Maximum Resistanc...

This episode of former Nashville Mayor Karl Dean's conversations with community leaders featured Sean Henry, Nashville Predators President and CEO, with co-host Pat Ryan, TNWAC President. Karl asked Sean about his background and the experiences he has brought to the Predators organization. They talked about the situation for the Predators and Bridgestone arena as a result of the pandemic and shutd...

The pandemic crisis has created a “stay at home” reality for students, teleworkers and others. The “Global Engagement” video webinar will offer a week-day, weekly or bi-weekly opportunity to talk about current international events with co-hosts Ambassador Charles Bowers and TNWAC President LCDR Patrick Ryan (USN,Ret). They will run down the week’s current global events and invite your questions an...

NASHVILLE, APRIL 21: The pandemic crisis has created a “stay at home” reality for students, teleworkers and others. The “Global Engagement” video webinar will offer a week-day, weekly or bi-weekly opportunity to talk about current international events with co-hosts Ambassador Charles Bowers and TNWAC President LCDR Patrick Ryan (USN,Ret). They will run down the week’s current global events and inv...

NASHVILLE, APRIL 21: The Middle East is still there and the Covid-19 pandemic has not made any of the troubles there any better. Let's have a dialogue. Join us for a tour d'horizon of this important region where Americans serve in harm's way with David DesRoches, retired US Army Colonel and Professor at the Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies at the National Defense University. We're...

Global Engagement World News: Review and Commentary With Ambassador Dick Bowers and LCDR Pat Ryan Video: https://youtu.be/3pv6r5YV3iU April 14, 2020 In this episode Dick and Pat review these topics in the news: 1 - Covid-19 – What’s going on around the world? 2 – U.S. Role in International Organizations 3 - Iraq – What’s going on in the politics of this pivotal Middle East country 4 - USS Theodore...

In this episode Karl Dean, former Nashville Mayor, talks with Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce CEO Ralph Schulz about the business environment in Nashville during this time of pandemic. We invite you to listen to this Webinar and join us for future editions of "Global Nashville with Karl Dean" -- check TNWAC.org for Webinar schedules. April 14, 2020 Runtime: 31:58 00:01 Welcome / Introduction --...

“Global Engagement” A Review of News and Issues in World Affairs Presented by the “Global Tennessee” project of the Tennessee World Affairs Council [www. TNWAC.org] April 7, 2020 With Amb Charles Bowers, USFS(Ret) LCDR Patrick Ryan, USN(Ret) This week in the news: 1 - Covid-19 Update 2 – United Kingdom 3 - US-Iran Developments 4 - Global Governance and Democracy 5 - Afghanistan and America’s Longe...

April 7, 2020 A conversation on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic in Nashville and around the world and the TNWAC pivot to digital global awareness programs With Former Nashville Mayor Karl Dean Amb Charles Bowers, USFS(Ret) Jim Shepherd, Chairman, TNWAC Board John Scannapieco, Chair Baker Donelson Global Business Team LCDR Patrick Ryan, USN(Ret) Check TNWAC.org for program schedule Karl Dean |...

Recorded: Oct 8, 2019 A conversation on the U.S.-Korea business relationship, US-Japan relations and U.S. In this episode we hear from the United States Ambassador to the Republic of Korea (ROK) Harry Harris, a Tennessee native. He was in Nashville to visit with business leaders as part of his effort to promote trade ties. Ambassador Harris spoke to a group hosted by the Nashville Area Chamber of...

Originally recorded: Sep 12, 2019 In this episode we will bring you conversations on an organization promoting “Smartpower” and an organization promoting development and humanitarian aid. The USGLC works in our nation’s capital and across the country to strengthen America’s civilian-led tools — development and diplomacy — alongside defense. By advocating for a strong international affairs budget,...

Special Episode - Coronavirus - Medical and Commercial Implications In this episode arranged in response to the rapid spread of Coronavirus into a global and U.S. health emergency we talk with Medical Epidemiologist Dr. Mary-Margaret Fill of the Tennessee Department of Health's Communicable and Environmental Diseases and Emergency Preparedness (CEDEP) Division about the medial implications of the...

In this episode host Patrick Ryan talked with Tomas Baert, Head of Trade and Agriculture of the European Union Delegation to the United States based in Washington, DC. They talked about US-EU trade, Brexit, multilateral relations and issues of the day. If you want to know insights about Brexit -- the separation of the UK and the EU -- you won't get elsewhere take a listen to this interesting Podca...

Recorded: Jan 8, 2020 -- In this episode Canada's Consul General to the Southern US, Nadia Theodore talked with host Patrick Ryan, Ambassador Charles Bowers and TNWAC Chair Jim Shepherd about the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement signed by President Trump on Jan 29, 2020; about US-Canada and US-Tennessee commercial relations and the global issues connecting Americans and Canadians. Biography Nadia Theodo...

"In foreign affairs Congress has a big role." -- Rep Jim Cooper Every American has three people who represent their interests in Congress — two Senators and a Representative — on issues of war and peace, commerce and prosperity, and the functioning and aims of U.S. foreign policy and national security. There can be little of more importance to our understanding of world affairs than what our elect...

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE RUSSIAN INFORMATION OPERATIONS CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE UNITED STATES AND ABOUT MALCOLM NANCE, A SPECIALIST ON INTELLIGENCE, TERRORISM, NATIONAL SECURITY AND THE RUSSIAN ATTACK ON AMERICA. Today we’re coming to you from beautiful Belmont University where we’re talking with Malcolm Nance, career Navy man, counter-terrorism and national security specialist, author and exp...

Complete Podcast Notes: https://www.tnwac.org/2019/11/12/global-nashville-with-karl-dean-china-with-john-scannapieco-gnkd5-ep-32/ Podcast Notes Excerpt: 03:00 Tell us about your background. How did you become involved in global business? 05:11 Was international business your focus in college and law school? 06:32 Tennessee has significant interests in global commercial relations, how did you becom...

"Why Europe Matters" Recorded: September 10, 2019 Ambassador John 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 occupie...

GNKD4 | Global Nashville with Karl Dean focuses on the elements of Nashville that make it a global place. Today's episode is a roundtable on current issues with former Mayor Karl Dean talking with TNWAC Board Chair Jim Shepherd, Ambassador Dick Bowers and co-host TNWAC President Pat Ryan. The roundtable started with tales of the North Atlantic with Mayor Dean recounting his summer sailing vacation...

Ambassador Christopher R. Hill: *Chief Advisor to the Chancellor for Global Engagement, University of Denver *Dean, Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver *Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs *Ambassador to the Republic of Korea *Head, U.S. Delegation to Six Party Talks on North Korean Nuclear Weapons *U.S. Ambassador to Poland *U.S. Ambassador to...

Episode 28 of "Global Tennessee" opens our conversations with candidates for Federal office in 2020. We talked with Mr. James Mackler, candidate for U.S. Senate and the Democrat nomination. Mr. Mackler's web site: https://www.jamesmackler.com "Global Tennessee" host Patrick Ryan talked with Mr. Mackler about his background, education, military service and family. Then they discussed the role of th...