professor walter russell mead, elmira bayrasli. i hope i pronounced that correctly. >> very well. >> jim ketterer from bard. and simon longstaff. you probably know half of them. or you can read about them. please join me in welcoming our panel. [ applause ] >> well, thank you, simon. thanks to all of you for being here. thanks to the organizers for putting this timely and important event together. so as we're shifting to foreign policy, it strikes me that foreign policy tends not to be in most american presidential elections something that's front and center in the elections. several of the elections we've seen before 2016, in the debates, foreign policy issues sometimes would barely get a mention. yet we sell on this election that several key issues came to the fore time and again. how we deal with china, trade deals, the question of russia that is still with us, and more. and the foreign policy establishment in washington and beyond, the community of people who have devoted their careers to doing this, the same community of peopl

elmira bayrasli, i hope i pronounce that correctly >> very well jim ketterer from brevard and tom nichols. you probably know most of them already. join me in welcoming our panel. [applause] >> thank you simon and thanks to all of you for being here and thanks to the organizers for putting this timely and important event together. so we're shifting to foreign policy, it strikes me that foreign policy not to be in most american presidential elections something that's front and center in the elections. in several of the elections we've seen before 2016, in the debate foreign policy issues would barely get a mention yet it's a selection that several key issues came to the four time and again. how we deal with china, trade deals, the question of russia that is still with us and more. and the foreign policy establishment in washington and beyond, the community of people who have devoted their careers to doing this, the same community that made inroads in the obama administration called the blog. they are not always so connected to the electorate, not necessarily so attuned to elections and i th