{"id":2355,"date":"2021-05-06T16:00:55","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T21:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/?post_type=speaker&#038;p=2355"},"modified":"2021-05-06T16:00:55","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T21:00:55","slug":"dr-charles-edel-2","status":"publish","type":"speaker","link":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/speaker\/dr-charles-edel-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Charles Edel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>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 <em>The Lessons of Tragedy: Statecraft and World Order<\/em> (2019) and author of <em>Nation Builder: John Quincy Adams and the Grand Strategy of the Republic<\/em> (2014).&nbsp; 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 <em>The Washington Post,<\/em><em>Foreign Affairs<\/em>, <em>Foreign Policy<\/em>, <em>The American Interest<\/em>, and various other outlets.&nbsp; He also regularly offers foreign policy commentary on television and radio, including CNBC, ABC, Sky News, Australia\u2019s RN, and NPR. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.&nbsp; He also has worked at Peking University&#8217;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},"featured_media":2359,"template":"","class_list":{"0":"post-2355","1":"speaker","2":"type-speaker","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"entry"},"acf":{"speaker_title":"","speaker_last_name":"","speaker_classification":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/2355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/speaker"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/2355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2358,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/2355\/revisions\/2358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}