FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                                    
Dated: January 6, 2005
Contact: D. Lindley Young at 423.871.1712

FORMER CLINTON FOREIGN RELATIONS ADVISOR

TO APPEAR ON EAST TENNESSEE TALK RADIO SHOW

KNOXVILLE - Professor Charles A. Kupchan will appear on the Salute America talk radio show this Sunday, January 9th, from 3 - 4 p.m. (850 AM). Dr. Kupchan was Director for European Affairs on the National Security Council during the first Clinton administration. Before joining the NSC, he worked in the U.S. Department of State on the Policy Planning Staff.

Dr. Kupchan is an Associate Professor of international relations in the School of Foreign Service and Government Department at Georgetown University. He is also a Senior Fellow and Director of European Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Kupchan has taught foreign policy at Harvard, Yale and Princeton. He is the author of  numerous books including The End of  the American Era (2002) and Power in Transition: The Peaceful Change of International Order (2001).

Among other things, Dr. Kupchan will discuss U.S foreign policy, the war in Iraq and China as an emerging threat to the U.S.  According to Bill Lindley, the Salute America host, "We have been lucky to attract very high caliber guests on the show; William Fisher, a member of the Kennedy administration, Clair Calan, a former Nebraska Congressman during the Vietnam War, Marthame Sanders, a Presbyterian  minister who served in the Gaza Strip for 3 1/2 years during the Second Intifada, and many others. These people provide great insight into what’s going on in the world for us here in Tennessee. From their standpoint, they are interested in the thinking of people outside the Beltway." 

On January 30th, the day of the Iraq elections, Rick Barton, co-director for Iraq's Post-Conflict Reconstruction Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) will be a guest on Salute America.

Salute America airs every Sunday across the Horne Radio Network in East Tennessee (850 AM, Knoxville, 1290 AM, Oak Ridge, 670 AM, Farragut, 1140 AM, London, 1400 AM, Maryville). The show is sponsored by The Modern Tribune, an online publication focusing on U.S. foreign policy at www.themoderntribune.com.

MORE ABOUT KUPCHAN (Vitae (pdf)

Dr. Kupchan is an Associate Professor of international relations in the School of Foreign Service and Government Department at Georgetown University. He is also a Senior Fellow and Director of Europe Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.

Dr. Kupchan was Director for European Affairs on the National Security Council during the first Clinton administration. Before joining the NSC, he worked in the U.S. Department of State on the Policy Planning Staff. Prior to government service, he was an Assistant Professor of Politics at Princeton University.

He is the author of The End of the American Era (2002), Power in Transition: The Peaceful Change of International Order (2001), Civic Engagement in the Atlantic Community (1999), Atlantic Security: Contending Visions (1998), Nationalism and Nationalities in the New Europe (l995), The Vulnerability of Empire (1994), The Persian Gulf and the West (1987), and numerous articles on international and strategic affairs.