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 elections in November and the implications for global security, trade, and climate policy. New alliances are forming, and old ones are fraying in an increasingly tense and dangerous world. But the adoption of green tech continues to outpace the most optimistic forecasts, even as concerns grow over artificial intelligence and its voracious appetite for chips, energy, water, and data. Tom Standage, Deputy Editor of The Economist and editor of The World Ahead 2025, will consider these and other trends and their implications for geopolitics, business, and culture in the coming year.

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The Wide World With Dick and Pat #1

This episode launches a new “Global Tennessee” program in which Ambassador Dick Bowers, USFS (Ret) and LtCdr Patrick Ryan, USN (Ret), will occasionally discuss current issues in global affairs. Their experience across 50 years of service and travel in about 120 countries between them will be applied in analysis, commentary and entertaining discussion of current events, hot topics and international affairs trends.  

Today they open their program with a review of 2018 through discussion of a top 10 list published by the Council on Foreign Relations and their personal insights and perspectives on top issues of the year.  After the break they’ll look at the year ahead and talk about challenges to the United States in the world and how American decision makers are approaching the world.

Dick and Pat also mix in conversations about local international food haunts in Nashville and offer recommendations for your bookshelf.  

So take a listen, write a review and send feedback directly to Dick and Pat (patryan@tnwac.org).

Notes:
Ten Most Significant World Events in 2018 | Council on Foreign Relation
https://www.cfr.org/blog/ten-most-significant-world-events-2018
Opinion | Why 2018 Was the Best Year in Human History! - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/05/opinion/sunday/2018-progress-poverty-health.html
Can China join the big free-trade deal that Donald Trump failed to kill? | South China Morning Post
https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/2181439/can-china-join-big-free-trade-deal-donald-trump-failed-kill
Secretary's Remarks: A Force for Good: America Reinvigorated in the Middle East
https://www.state.gov/secretary/remarks/2019/01/288410.htm 
CLIMATE We have 12 years to limit climate change catastrophe, warns UN | Environment | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/08/global-warming-must-not-exceed-15c-warns-landmark-un-report
CHINA. Remarks by Vice President Pence on the Administration's Policy Toward China | The White House
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-vice-president-pence-administrations-policy-toward-china/

CHINA. Pence’s China Speech Seen as Portent of ‘New Cold War’ - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/05/world/asia/pence-china-speech-cold-war.html?login=email&auth=login-email
Signal: Top Risks for 2019
https://mailchi.mp/eurasiagroup/signal-top-risks-for-2019-a-lion-ride-in-sudan-dr-congo-delayed-count?e=9024203d9c

Global Tennessee - Episode 011 - The Wide World With Dick and Pat #1

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 in the Svalbard archipelago in the far North Atlantic, and the story of his "abandoning ship" and subsequent helicopter rescue. He also talked about Svalbard, the Arctic and climate change.  

The other topics tackled by today's roundtable were the new leadership in Nashville with the election of Mayor Cooper; international business in Nashville; the city as an international "destination" including the work of Sister Cities of Nashville; developments with New Americans including refugee resettlement and TIRRC, and cultural events in the city.

Karl Dean -- former Mayor of Nashville
Jim Shepherd -- Chairman, TNWAC Board; former President of Carlex Glass and chairman of the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce International Business Council
Amb Dick Bowers -- U.S. Foreign Service (Ret), career diplomat and former U.S. Ambassador to Bolivia
Pat Ryan -- LCDR, USN (Ret) President Tennessee World Affairs Council, Executive Producer Global Tennessee Podcast service

Resources:
Nashville Chamber International Business Council
https://www.nashvillechamber.com/economic-development/international-business/international-business-council 
New Americans Advisory Council
https://www.nashville.gov/Mayors-Office/Diversity-and-Inclusion/New-Americans/New-Americans-Advisory-Council.aspx
World Population Review | Nashville
Tennessee Ranke #1 in Business Climate
https://businessfacilities.com/2019/07/business-facilities-15th-annual-rankings-state-rankings-report/  
http://worldpopulationreview.com/us-cities/nashville-population/
Sister Cities of Nashville
https://www.scnashville.org
Tennessee Immigrant & Refugee Rights Coalition
https://www.tnimmigrant.org

THE MISSION of the nonprofit, nonpartisan Tennessee World Affairs Council is to promote international awareness, understanding and connections to enhance the region’s global stature and to prepare Tennesseans to thrive in our increasingly complex and connected world.

THE VISION of  the Tennessee World Affairs Council is a well-informed community that thinks critically about the world and the impact of global events.   

Learn more about the Council and find how you can join, donate and volunteer at: www.TNWAC.org  — 

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Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly reportedly made an unhinged speech to the crew members of the USS Theodore Roosevelt, in which he lashed out at former Capt. Brett E. Crozier and told sailors to stop complaining and do their jobs. Full story here: https://taskandpurpose.com/news/navy-secretary-blasts-fired-aircraft-carrier-captain

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