delightful rhetorical concoctions such as “ Public Diplomacy 2.0 . ” On his Council on Foreign Relations adjunct staff page he listed his expertise as “ terrorism ; radicalization ; impact of connection technologies on 21st century statecraft ; Iran . ” Director of Google Ideas , and " geopolitical visionary " Jared Cohen shares his vision with US Army recruits in a lecture theatre at West Point Military Academy on 26 Feb 2014 ( Instagram by Eric Schmidt His documented love affair with Google began the same year , when he befriended Eric Schmidt as they together surveyed the post - occupation wreckage of Baghdad . Just months later , Schmidt re - created Cohen ’s natural habitat within Google itself by engineering a “ think / do tank ” based in New York and appointing Cohen as its head .