April 30, 2019

"The Current State of American Diplomacy and Future Outlook"

THE INTER-UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR TERRORISM STUDIES

A Special Ambassadors’ Forum:

 “The Current State of American Diplomacy and Future Outlook”

In an uncertain political environment, with the retirement or resignation of so many experienced senior career Foreign Service Officers, American diplomacy is in danger of falling into a state of disarray. Can the United States maintain its global diplomatic primacy and leadership? Two former senior diplomats look at the current state of American diplomacy and the prospects for 2020 and beyond.

Professor Yonah Alexander, Director, Inter-University Center for Terrorism

Studies, and Senior Fellow, Potomac Institute for Policy Studies

Ambassador (Ret.) Ronald Neumann, Formerly Deputy Assistant Secretary and

U.S. Ambassador to Algeria, Bahrain, and Afghanistan, and currently

President, the American Academy of Diplomacy

Ambassador (Ret.) Charles Ray, Formerly Deputy Assistant Secretary of

Defense for POW/Missing Personnel Affairs and U.S. Ambassador to

Cambodia and Zimbabwe (previously, he served in the U.S. Army for twenty

years)

Ambassador (Ret.) John Negroponte, Former Director of National Intelligence

and Deputy Secretary of State                   

General (Ret.) Al Gray, Twenty-Ninth Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps; Senior

Fellow and Chairman of the Board, Potomac Institute for Policy Studies