Jan. 5: Values-Based Narratives in U.S. Foreign Policy

PCDA's January 5th program will feature James Ketterer, Senior Fellow at Bard College's Center for Civic Engagement, alongside Kevin Maloney, Director of Communications at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, to discuss their recent report, Illiberal Narratives and Shifting Values: Examining Competing Visions of the U.S. and its Role in the World. Together, Ketterer and Maloney will share key insights from the Carnegie Council’s narratives working group—a global community of experts examining the liberal-to-illiberal transition in U.S. foreign policy discourse in a moment when long-standing soft-power institutions are being defunded and disbanded.

The event will be moderated by PDCA Board Member Nick Culld and will take place via Zoom only. It will take place at Noon ET.
To register to watch the Forum via Zoom, click here.

The First Monday Forum is co-sponsored by PDCA and its partners the GWU Institute for Public Diplomacy and Global Communication and the USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy.

James Ketterer
Senior Fellow, Bard College, Center for Civic Engagement
PDCA member James Ketterer is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Civic Engagement at Bard College. He recently completed a term as Dean of the School of Continuing Education at the American University in Cairo, where he worked closely with the U.S. Embassy on a wide variety of public diplomacy initiatives. He also served in Egypt as Country Director for AMIDEAST, an American educational NGO that works to enhance educational and cultural ties between the U.S. and the Middle East. Previously at Bard, he was Dean of International Studies and Director of the Bard Globalization and International Affairs Program. Earlier, he was Deputy Provost and Vice Chancellor at the State University of New York, where he was also Director of the Center for International Development, which implemented USAID-supported democracy projects in the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and Latin America. He previously worked in the Near East-South Asia directorate of the National Security Council and has served election missions with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and the African American Institute.

Kevin Maloney
Director of Communications, Carnegie Council 
Kevin Maloney is the director of communications at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs. In this role, he is responsible for the planning and execution of the Council’s community engagement, content development, and public programming strategies across key issue areas, including peace and security, emerging technology, and applied ethics. He is also the host of the Values & Interests podcast, which examines ethical tensions and tradeoffs at the heart of decision-making in geopolitics, tech, and business. Prior to Carnegie Council, Maloney spent a decade working at communications consultancies, where he advised clients in the public policy, professional services, and nonprofit spaces. He received a B.A. in political science from Fordham University and an M.A. with distinction in global security from King's College London, where his dissertation assessed the use of moral language and values-based narratives in U.S. foreign policy. He also serves as an international advisory board member for the HumAIne Foundation.