Episode 48: Admiral James Stavridis

Admiral James Stavridis was the Supreme Allied Commander at NATO and is currently the dean of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. He was the head of NATO during the Libya intervention; and served in top policy positions at the Defense Department before assuming his post at Fletcher. In this episode of the Global Dispatches Podcast, Adm Stavridis recounts his personal and intellectual journey to become a highly decorated Naval officer and a widely respected scholar of international relations. These stories are fresh in his mind: last fall he published his memoir The Accidental Admiral.  This is a great conversation with a leading intellectual and practitioner of foreign policy. Enjoy!