Great Decisions

Great Decisions is independently produced by the Foreign Policy Association and aims to provide the facts on world issues to help Americans participate in the foreign policy making process. GREAT DECISIONS IN FOREIGN POLICY ON PUBLIC TELEVISION

Narrated by Academy Award nominated actor David Strathairn (Good Night, and Good Luck, Lincoln) each season consists of eight half-hour documentaries, featuring interviews with nearly 100 of the most important figures in international affairs. GREAT DECISIONS

Title...... “Great Decisions 2018” Format...... HD Running Time...... 26:46 x8 Aspect Ratio...... 16:9 B&W, Color...... Color Sound...... Stereo Language...... English

Director, Writer, Producer...... Foreign Policy Association Executive Producer...... MacDara King Editor/Producer...... David Heidelberg

Great Decisions WHO’S WATCHING Nielsen reports 2,249,000 viewers watched Great Decisions this year. In over 200 DMA’s across the country, our audience is in 73% of U.S. TV households and included educated, affluent Americans between ages 30-64, looking to learn more about foreign affairs (Nielsen, 2012)

WHO’S LEARNING Through PBS Learning Media, Great Decisions reaches students in public high schools across the U.S. With the guidance of their teachers, students gain the context needed to understand the world in order to fully participate in an era defined by globalization.

WHO’S TALKING In thousands of Great Decisions Discussion Groups nationwide, communities come together to engage in a deeper exploration and discussion of U.S. foreign policy. Supported by the Foreign Policy Association since 1957, these civic groups in cities across the country allow viewers to remain engaged in global affairs and make “Great Decisions” of their own.

Great Decisions PAX AMERICANA

Synopsis: • Ian Brzezinski (Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Europe and The past 70 years has been the era of “Pax NATO) Americana,” a period of relative stability thanks • Pat Buchanan (Presidential Assistant) to the influence and ballast provided by the • Amb. Nicholas Burns (Professor, Harvard) United States. But with Russian expansion and • John Campbell (Senior Fellow, CFR) a rising China, how long can it last? • Steven Cook (Senior Fellow, CFR) • Nicholas Danforth (Senior Policy Analyst, PBC) Featured Guests: • Amb. Tatiana Gfoeller (Former. Ambassador to Kyrgystan) • Elliot Ackerman (Author) • Ambassador Michael Gfoeller (Advisor, • Jeremy Adelman (Professor, Princeton) Chertoff Group) • Madeleine Albright (Former Secretary of • John Hamre (President CEO, CSIS) State/ Professor, Georgetown) • Michael Hayden (Former Director, CIA/ • Andrew Bacevich (Professor, BU) NSA) • Daniel Benaim (Former White House • Rebeccah Heinrichs (Fellow, Hudson Speechwriter/Professor, NYU) Institute) • John Brennan (Former. Director, CIA)

Great Decisions PAX AMERICANA

• Amb James Jeffrey (Former US Ambassador • Stephen Randolph (Historian, State to Turkey) Department) • Michael Kazin (Professor, Georgetown) • Mitchell Reiss (Former Director of Policy • James Kirchick (Visiting Fellow, Brookings) Planning, Department of State) • Manuel Lopez-Linares (Author) • Rep. Dana Rohrbacher (R-California) • Edward Luce (Washington Commentator, • Wendy Sherman (Senior Counselor, Albright Financial Times) Stonebridge Group) • Alan Makovsky (Senior Fellow, CAP) • Michael John Williams (Program Director, • General Stanley McChrystal (Former International Relations, NYU) Commander Joint Special Operations Command) • Walter Russell Meade (Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute) • Dambisa Moyo (Economist and Author) • Joseph Nye (Professor, Harvard) • Alina Polyakova (Director of Research for Europe and Eurasia, Atlantic Council) • Barry Posen (Professor, MIT) • Christopher Preble (Vice President, Cato Institute)

Great Decisions RUSSIA’S FOREIGN POLICY

• Nicholas Burns (Former US Ambassador, Synopsis: NATO) • Keith Gessen (Professor, Columbia To his detractors, Putin is an autocrat, crushing any University) threat to his power, while renewing Soviet-style • Michael Gfoeller (Former Senior Political expansionism. To supporters, Putin represents Advisor, US Central Command) Russia’s redemption as a global superpower - and • Amb. Tatiana Gfoeller (US Ambassador, an alternative to the liberal democracy espoused Kyrgyzstan) by the West. Great Decisions explores what drives • Michael Hayden (Former Director, CIA) Putin’s Foreign Policy. • Vladimir Kara-Murza (Vice Chairman, Open Russia) • Michael Kazin (Editor, Dissent) Featured Guests: • Allen Lynch (Professor, UVA) • Olena Nikolayenko (Professor, Fordham) • Madeleine Albright (Former Secretary of • Alina Polyakova (Director of Research for State) Europe and Eurasia, Atlantic Council) • John Brennan (Former Director, CIA) • Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-California) • Ian Brzezinski (Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council) • Noah Rothman (Associate Editor, • Pat Buchanan (Presidential Assistant) Commentary) • Bruce Bueno de Mesquita (Professor, NYU)

Great Decisions RUSSIA’S FOREIGN POLICY

• Jeffrey wSachs (Professor, Columbia University) • Adam Schiff (US Representative) • Alex Shephard (News Editor; New Republic) • Wendy Sherman (Former Deputy Secretary of State) • Dimitri Simes (Publisher, The National Interest) • Katrina Vanden Heuvel (Editor, The Nation) • Michael Williams (Professor, NYU) • Volodymyr Yelchenko (Ukrainian Ambassador to the UN) • Boris Zilberman (Foundation for Defense of Democracies)

Great Decisions CHINA: THE NEW SILK ROAD

Synopsis: • Pat Buchanan, Former Assistant to the President for Communications China is the second largest economy in the world, • Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Professor, NYU and it’s expected to bump the U.S. out of the top • Sen. Chris Coons, D-Delware rank in less than a decade. Beijing is increasingly • David Dollar, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institute looking beyond China’s borders, toward investment • Brian Eyler, Director of Southeast Asia in Asia and across the world. What does China’s Program, Stimson Center massive One Belt One Roa Madeleine A l b r i g h t • John Frisbie, President, U.S -China Business Former Secretary of State Council • Michael Hayden, Former Director, CIA/NSA • Nicholas Kristof, Op-ed Columnist, The New Featured guests: York Times • MaryKay Magistad Host, NPR • Amb. Max Baucus, Former Ambassador to • Gen. Stanley McChrystal, Former Commander, China US Army Joint Special Operations Command • Dan Blumenthal, Director of Asian Studies, • Walter Russel Meade, Editor-at-Large, The American Enterprise Institute American Interest • John Brennan, Former Director, CIA • Dambisa Moyo International Economist, • Christopher Brummer, Faculty Director, Author Georgetown Institute of International Economic Law

Great Decisions CHINA: THE NEW SILK ROAD

• Steve Orlins, President, U.S. Committee on United States- China Relations • Daniel Rosen, Founding Partner, Rhodium Group • Dan Russel, Former Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs • Sheryl WuDunn, Executive, Author, The New York Times • Boris Zilberman, Deputy Director of Congressional Relations, Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

Great Decisions THE MEDIA AND FOREIGN POLICY

Synopsis: • David Dinkins, Former Mayor, NYC • Michael Hayden, Former Director, CIA/NSA The US has thrived on its vibrant and free press • Lisel Hintz, Professor, Johns Hopkins University since the Founding Fathers first put the concept • David Ignatius, Author, Journalist, The into law in the Bill of Rights as an important, Washington Post independent check on power. Now Foreign policy • James Jeffrey, Senior Diplomat is tweeted from the White House and “fake news” • James Kirchick, Reporter/Fellow, Brookings has entered the zeitgeist, while social media is Institute proving to be a double-edged sword. What’s next • Nicholas Kristof, Op-ed Columnist, New York for media and the free press? Times • Indira Lakshmanan, Columnist, The Boston Globe Featured Guests: • Edward Luce, Journalist, Financial Times • Jared Malsin, Middle East Bureau Chief, TIME • Max Baucus, Former Ambassador, China Magazine • Rodney Benson, Professor, NYU • Mark Mazzetti, Washington Investigations • John Brennan, Former Director, CIA Editor, New York Times • Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Professor, NYU • Susan Moeller, Director, College of Journalism • Amb. Nicholas Burns, Professor, Harvard University of Maryland • Steve Coll, Dean, Columbia University • Asli Peker, Professor, NYU

Great Decisions THE MEDIA AND FOREIGN POLICY

• Noah Rothman, Associate Editor, Commentary • Paul Senatori, CEO, MediaQuant • Alex Shephard, News Editor, New Republic • Katrina Vanden Huevel, Editor, The Nation • Sheryl WuDunn, Executive, author, The New York Times

Great Decisions TURKEY: A PARTNER IN CRISIS

Synopsis: • Pat Buchanan, Former Presidential Aid Once seen as a model of democracy, Turkey may • Bruce Bueno de Mesquita Professor, NYU be slipping toward autocracy. Critics charge that • Soner Cagaptay, Director, Turkish Research President Recip Tayyip Erdogan used a failed coup Program, Washington Institute d’état in 2016 as a means of consolidating power - • Steven Cook, Senior Fellow, PBC power he says is necessary to secure the state. Great • Nicholas Danforth, Senior Policy Analyst, PBC Decisions producers traveled to Turkey to examine • Howard Eissenstat, Professor, St. Lawrence the relationship with this key U.S. ally. • Lisel Hintz, Professor, Johns Hopkins • Amb. James Jeffries, Former US Ambassador to Turkey Featured Guests: • Saban Kardas, Professor, TOBB University • Alan Makovsky, Senior Fellow, CAP • Elliot Ackerman, Author • Zeybek Mesut, Coup Vetran • Mehmet Akarca, Director General of Press • Asli Peker, Professor, NYU and Information, Turkish Government • Noah Rothman, Journalist, Commentary • Mustafa Akyol, Professor, Fellow, Freedom Project, Wellesley College • Madeleine Albright, Former Secretary of State • Ian Brzezinski, Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Europe and NATO

Great Decisions CROSSROADS: AMERICA’S DEFENSE STRATEGY

Synopsis • Ambassador (Ret). Nicholas Burns, Professor, Harvard Kennedy School The global power balance is rapidly evolving, • John Campbell, Senior Fellow, Council on leaving the United States at a turning point with Foreign Relations respect to its level of engagement and the role • Steve Coll, Journalist, Author, Dean, Columbia of its military. How does the military function in University today’s international order, and what role should • Chris Coons, US Senator, Delaware Diplomacy play in U.S. defense strategy? • Nick Danworth, Senior Policy Analyst, Bipartisan Policy Center • Luce Edward, Washington Commentator, Featured Guests: Financial Times • Michael Gfoeller, Former Ambassador/ • Elliot Ackerman, Author Advisor, Chertoff Group • Gordan Adams, Professor, American University • Tatiana Gfoeller, Fmr. Ambassador to • Madeleine Albright, fmr. Sec. of State/ Kyrgystan Professor, Georgetown • Chuck Hagel, Former US Secretary of Defense • Andrew Bacevich, Professor Emeritus, Boston • John Hamre, President and CEO, Center for University Strategic and International Studies • John Brennan, Former Director, CIA

Great Decisions CROSSROADS: AMERICA’S DEFENSE STRATEGY

• Gen. Michael Hayden, Former. Director, CIA • Mitchell Reiss, President and CEO, The and NSA Colonial Williamsburg Foundation • Rebeccah Heinrichs, Fellow, Hudson Institute • Dan Russel, Resident Diplomat, Senior Fellow, • Cameron Hume, Former Amb. to South Africa The Asia Society • Walter Meade, Professor, Bard College • Wendy Sherman, Senior Counselor Albright • Joseph Nye, Professor, Harvard Kennedy Stonebridge Group, Senior Fellow Belfer School Center Harvard, former Undersecretary of • Gen. David Petraeus, Former Director, CIA State for Political Affairs • Barry Posen, Ford Professor of Political Science and Director Security Studies Program, MIT • Christopher Preble, Vice President for Defense and Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute • Dr. Stephen Randolph, Historian, U.S. Department of State

Great Decisions SOUTH AFRICA: IN THE SHADOW OF MANDELA

Synopsis: • David Dinkins (Former Mayor, NYC) • Cheri-Leigh Erasmus (Executive Director, South Africa’s transition from apartheid to a SAWIP) democracy captivated the world in the early 1990’s. • Amb. Patrick Gaspard (Former US While it remains the most advanced country in Ambassador to South Africa) Africa, allegations of state corruption and huge • Liesl Gerntholtz (Human Rights Watch) disparities in wealth threaten its revolutionary • Susan Glover (Professor, American University) dream. • Amb. Cameron Hume (Former US Ambassador to South Africa) • Sean Jacobs (Editor, Africa is a Country) Featured Guests: • Amb. Jerry Matjila (South African Ambassador to the UN) • Madeleine Albright (Former US Secretary of • Jeffrey Sachs (Professor, Columbia University) State) • Amb. Eric Bost (Former US Ambassador to South Africa) • Pat Buchanan (Presidential Assistant) • John Campbell (Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations) • Sen. Chris Coons (D-Delaware)

Great Decisions GLOBAL HEALTH: PREVENTING PANDEMIC

Synopsis: • Amb. Deborah L Birx, US Global AIDS Coordinator, State Department For decades, the U.S. has been a leader in • Carissa Etienne, Director, Pan-American promoting global health. But foreign assistance has Health Organization fallen out of favor in some circles in Washington, • Laurie Garrett, Senior Fellow, CFR they argue the U.S. should help America first. Is the • Amb. Patrick Gaspard, Vice President, Open golden age of global health coming to an end, or Society Foundations just getting started? • Helene Gayle, CEO, McKinsey Social Initiative • Amanda Glassman, Chief Operating Officer and Senior Fellow, Center for Global Featured Guests: Development • Chuck Hagel, Former US Secretary of • Madeleine Albright, Former Secretary of Defense State • Michael Hayden, Former Director, CIA • Jono Anzalone, Vice President, American Red • 12. Ron Klain, General Counsel, Revolution Cross LLC • Chris Collins, President, Friends of the Global • 13. Nicholas Kristof, Columnist, NYT & Co- Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria author, A Path Appears (Friends)

Great Decisions GLOBAL HEALTH: PREVENTING PANDEMIC

• Sen. Joe Lieberman, Former Senator, I-Connecticut • Josh Michaud, Associate Director, Global Health Center, Kaiser Family Foundation • Stephen Morrison, Senior Vice President and Director, Center for Global Health CSIS • Stephen Morse, Professor, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University • Gerald Parker, Associate Dean of Global One Health, Texas A&M • Michel Sidibe, Director General, UNAIDS

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Great Decisions PRODUCTION TEAM

MacDara King, Executive Producer MacDara King is the Executive Producer of Great Decisions television & Communications Director at the Foreign Policy Association. In the past decade at FPA, he has produced nearly one hundred programs for broadcast on PBS, managed the development of some of the world’s premiere global affairs web properties, launched the Global Jobs service, Global Career Boot Camps and founded FPA University, an international career development program in the North Eastern U.S ..

Great Decisions PRODUCTION TEAM

David Heidelberger, Editor A graduate of Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, David Heidelberger has been editing for XXL Media for the past seven years. He’s edited television programs and commercials that have been seen across the United States and internationally. For six years, he has been the editor of the PBS television program “Great Decisions in Foreign Policy,” including an award- winning on-location episode about Egypt, where he sometimes doubled as a cameraman. He has also worked in London for the BBC, where he edited the critically-acclaimed documentary, “Charging for Alexander,” about filming Oliver Stone’s Alexander the Great biopic in Morocco. He was also the editor of “The Legends Behind the Comic Books,” directed by Chip Cronkite, an award- winning documentary about the founding fathers of modern comic books. His editorial work on corporate films has helped raise funds and rebrand clients ranging from an Ivy League university to a corporate jet company. In the beauty world, he has edited television and viral campaigns for companies including Olay and Nordstrom. He has edited music videos for artists including singer- songwriter Ben Folds. He also writes software for video professionals.

Richardo Lopes, Director/Producer As a producer and director of The Lopes Picture Company and XXL Media, Rick has produced and edited an eclectic range of award winning work: over 2000 commercials, branded content, webisodes/internet content, documentaries, four off-off Broadway plays and a PBS foreign policy series, “Great Decisions” produced with the Foreign Policy Association. Rick has garnered over a hundred industry awards, including: an Emmy, AICP – MOMA Show Award, Andy, ADDY, Clio, Cannes Film Festival, Telly, Davey, Pixie, New York Festival, and TV Guide’s “Top 10 Super Bowl Spots.” Rick has the pleasure of serving on the following boards, committees, organizations and award shows: AICP East Board; Beverage Dynamics Advertising Awards Judge; DGA-CQL Commercial Contract Administration Trust Trustee; New York Production Alliance board member – Educational Chair; Foreign Policy Association Fellow; and Vice-Chair of the National Maritime Historical Society.

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