Getting Over the NSA
Parke Nicholson
Parke Nicholson was previously the Senior Research Associate at AICGS. He was selected to participate in the Munich Young Leaders 2016 program at the 52nd Munich Security Conference. Previously, he worked at the Center for the National Interest and the Council on Foreign Relations. In 2008, he served on the foreign policy staff at Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign headquarters. He has also worked abroad in Austria and Germany: in 2005 through the Fulbright Program in Klagenfurt and in 2010-2011 as a Robert Bosch Foundation Fellow working in the German Foreign Office for the Coordinator of Transatlantic Cooperation and for Daimler AG’s Political Intelligence unit in Stuttgart.
Parke has recently published in Foreign Affairs, The National Interest, The Baltimore Sun, and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. He received his MA in International Relations from The Elliott School of International Affairs at The George Washington University and a BA in History and Violin Performance at The College of Wooster in Ohio.
The loss of trust as a result of the NSA disclosures continues to undermine German-American relations. Leaders on both sides are contending with many other international challenges, but risk further damage to transatlantic intelligence and trade relations by ignoring the issue. AGI Senior Research Associate Parke Nicholson argues in the Baltimore Sun that high-level efforts have not done enough to undo the damage. A serious public dialogue in Europe is needed to restore lost confidence and trust.
