Channeling Brussels, hosted by journalist Teri Schultz, gets newsmakers, movers and shakers to lose the lingo, burst out of the Brussels bubble and have real conversations about the critical foreign and security policies shaping our world. it's the rest of the story, beyond the few seconds of soundbites that make it into the news.This episode's guest is James Appathurai, a deputy assistant secretary general of NATO, who takes us behind the curtain at the alliance's summit July 11-12.

Can the alliance avoid a G7-like catastrophe? Will transatlantic tensions over trade make NATO unity impossible? Appathurai gives a candid assessment of the state of NATO.

Channeling Brussels is brought to you by the Atlantic Council.

[Intro/Outro music "Happy Rock" by Bensound under a CC-BY-ND license (www.bensound.com/royalty-free-mus…rack/happy-rock/)]