As our understandings of national security evolve to include more topics that cross the traditional foreign policy/domestic policy divide, so too must the role of our nation's diplomats, who carry out U.S. foreign policy around the world. How is the State Department adapting to this new approach, including by working right here in the U.S.?

GUEST: Salman Ahmed, Director of Policy Planning, U.S. Department of State, joins Resident Fellow Brett Rosenberg in-person for the October 24 session.

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OFF-THE-RECORD: In keeping with our long tradition at the IOP to ensure honest and candid discussions of politics, all IOP study groups are off-the-record.