On this episode, Jeremi and Zachary, with Dr. Charles Edel, discuss the history of U.S-China foreign policy, to frame how the youth of America should have opinions on relations with China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Zachary sets the scene with his poem, “A Good Fight”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dr. Charles Edel is a Global Fellow at the Wilson Center and a Senior Fellow at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney. Edel\u2019s research and policy expertise is in the politics and security of the Indo-Pacific, U.S. strategy toward the region, American foreign policy, grand strategy, and American political history. He is the co-author (with Hal Brands) of The Lessons of Tragedy: Statecraft and World Order<\/em> (2019) and author of Nation Builder: John Quincy Adams and the Grand Strategy of the Republic<\/em> (2014). Currently, he is working on a book examining America\u2019s history of dealing with authoritarian regimes. In addition to his scholarly publications, his writings appear in The Washington Post,<\/em>Foreign Affairs<\/em>, Foreign Policy<\/em>, The American Interest<\/em>, and various other outlets. He also regularly offers foreign policy commentary on television and radio, including CNBC, ABC, Sky News, Australia\u2019s RN, and NPR. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Previously, Edel was Associate Professor of Strategy and Policy at the U.S. Naval War College, and served on the U.S. Secretary of State\u2019s Policy Planning Staff from 2015-2017. In that role, he advised the Secretary of State on political and security issues in the Asia-Pacific region. He also has worked at Peking University’s Center for International and Strategic Studies as a Henry Luce Scholar, was awarded the Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellowship, and taught high school history in New York City.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On this episode, Jeremi and Zachary, with Dr. Charles Edel, discuss the history of U.S-China foreign policy, to frame how the youth of America should have opinions on relations with China. Zachary sets the scene with his poem, “A Good Fight”. 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All of my research, writing, and teaching seeks to explain these transformations\u2013their diverse origins, their contradictory contours, and their long-lasting effects. My scholarship is therefore an extended inquiry into the workings of power at local and international levels, and the interactions across these levels. Like other historians, I treat power as contingent, context-dependent, and often quite elusive. Like practitioners of politics, I view power as essential for any meaningful achievement, especially in the realms of social justice and democratization.\n\nMy hope is that my work will reach a broad and diverse audience of citizens. Scholarship cannot substitute for real-lived experience, but I believe it can enhance our contemporary understanding of the choices we confront in the allocation of our resources, the structuring of our communities, and the judgment of merit. In this framework, international, transnational, and global history should contribute to better thinking about current international, transnational, and global problems. I am a proponent of historical and political studies that are broad, compelling, creative, and, ultimately, useful. 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He writes regularly for the Yale Daily News.\u00a0Zachary\u2019s poetry has been published by numerous publications, including\u00a0CNN.com<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Urbanitus.com<\/a>. He was the 2022-2023 Austin Youth Poet Laureate and a recipient of the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards Silver Key and AISD Trustees\u2019 Scholar Award. You can hear him discuss his poetry on\u00a0public radio<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","post_title":"Zachary Suri","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"zachary-suri","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-09-09 12:12:36","post_modified_gmt":"2025-09-09 17:12:36","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/?post_type=speaker&p=820","menu_order":0,"post_type":"speaker","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"guests":[{"ID":574,"post_author":"38","post_date":"2019-03-13 09:26:20","post_date_gmt":"2019-03-13 14:26:20","post_content":"Charles Edel is a senior fellow at the United States Studies Centre. Previously, he was associate professor of strategy and policy at the US Naval War College, and served on the US Secretary of State's policy planning staff from 2015 to 2017. 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