Amb. Moon returns to Fort Leavenworth

Ambassador (Ret.) Patrick Moon (center) smiles with Brigadier General Scott Efflandt, Deputy Commandant of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College (left) and Michael Hockley, Chair of the CGSC Foundation Board of Trustees (right) at the National Security Roundtable on April 4, 2018. Retired Ambassador Patrick S. Moon returned… Read More

Ambassadors discuss country teams in InterAgency Brown-Bag Lecture

● ehill ● April 6, 2018 ● Featured Simons Center News & Announcements ● No Comments

Retired Ambassadors David Lambertson and Patrick Moon gave the latest presentation in the InterAgency Brown-Bag Lecture Series, speaking about Ambassadorial Expectations and Country Team Operations on April 3. During their presentation Ambassadors Lambertson and Moon shared their experiences on Embassy Country Teams and discussed an Ambassador’s expectations of U.S. personnel… Read More

InterAgency Brown-Bag Lecture – April 3

● ehill ● March 29, 2018 ● Foundation News Simons Center Events ● No Comments

The next lecture in InterAgency Brown-Bag Lecture Series will be conducted at 12:30 p.m., Apr. 3 in the Arnold Conference Room in the Lewis and Clark Center on Fort Leavenworth. Retired Ambassadors David Lambertson and Patrick Moon will present Ambassadorial Expectations and Country Team Operations. In their presentation they will… Read More

Featured Article: Demystifying the Interagency Process…

● ehill ● May 16, 2017 ● Featured Articles ● No Comments

Featured article: Demystifying the Interagency Process and Explaining the Ambassador’s Role by Ronald E. Neumann This article is designed to be an introduction to the interagency process and its application in the field for those unfamiliar with the subject. One great obstacle to understanding the interagency process is the tendency,… Read More

Ambassador Moon visits Fort Leavenworth

● ehill ● May 4, 2017 ● Simons Center News & Announcements ● No Comments

Ambassador (Ret.) Patrick S. Moon, former U.S. Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs, visited the Leavenworth area 26-28 April where he shared his expertise as part of the Simons Center’s Interagency Speaker Series program. Ambassador Moon met with… Read More

Ambassador Kennedy returns to Fort Leavenworth

● ehill ● April 19, 2017 ● Simons Center News & Announcements ● No Comments

Ambassador (Ret.) Laura Kennedy returned for a second visit to Fort Leavenworth in April, again serving as the DACOR visiting professor of diplomacy for the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College (CGSC) Class of 2017. Kennedy, who previously served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and… Read More

Ambassador Kennedy visits Fort Leavenworth

● ehill ● December 14, 2016 ● Foundation News Simons Center News & Announcements ● No Comments

Ambassador (Ret.) Laura Kennedy who previously served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs among many other positions over a nearly 40 year diplomatic career, visited Fort Leavenworth Dec. 1-2 as the DACOR visiting professor of diplomacy for the CGSC Class of 2017. Ambassador Kennedy… Read More

Featured Article: The State Department: No Longer the Gatekeeper

● ehill ● December 6, 2016 ● Featured Articles ● No Comments

Featured article: The State Department: No Longer the Gatekeeper by Edward Marks Foreign Affairs Ministers no longer hold a monopoly over foreign affairs, as the process of international relations now includes domestic agencies and important non-state actors as major participants. This process, beginning early in the 20th century, became more… Read More

InterAgency Journal 6-3 (Summer 2015)

● ehill ● August 18, 2015 ● InterAgency Journal (IAJ) ● No Comments

Inside this issue: Features Demystifying the Interagency Process and Explaining the Ambassador’s Role by Ronald E. Neumann Disrupting the Foreign Fighter Flow: Interdiction and Prosecution by Jan Schwarzenberg Interagency: Nice to Talk About… Hard to Do by David Eaton and Gus Otto Whole-of-Government Teaming Through Collaborative Construction: NRO/NSA Synergy by… Read More

Neumann speaks on interagency process

● ehill ● March 17, 2015 ● IA News Simons Center News & Announcements ● No Comments

Ambassador (Ret.) Ronald E. Neumann recently spoke to students at the Maneuver Captains Career Course at Ft. Benning, Ga., about the interagency process. His remarks were part of the combat leader speaker program...

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