Great Decisions 2019

Great Decisions 2019

Spring (14 hrs or more) | This course is completed

5 Summer Street Hanover, NH 03755 United States

Cana Hall

NEW

3/27/2019-5/15/2019

9:00 AM-11:30 AM EDT on Wed

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$80.00

During this eight-week course we will explore some of the great issues of the day, and develop our individual positions on U.S. foreign policy direction and actions. Each week, participants will focus their broad range and depth of life knowledge and experience on one of eight current foreign policy topics furnished by the Foreign Policy Association (FPA). This is a very active discussion course. Each week, all participants will read the brief background material provided by the FPA, and one or two volunteers from the group will prepare a more in-depth, 10-minute introduction to the issue. This is then followed by a vigorous but controlled discussion of the background and options leading to positions on U.S. policy actions. Guest specialists may also participate. This year’s topics are again very timely, and will include:

  • Refugees and Global Migration

  • The Middle East: Regional Disorder

  • Nuclear Negotiations: Back to the Future?

  • The Rise of Populism in Europe

  • Decoding U.S.- China Trade

  • Cyber Conflicts and Geopolitics

  • The United States and Mexico: Partnership Tested

  • State of the State Department and Diplomacy

  • Required Text:
    • Great Decisions 2019 - Foreign Policy Association (ISBN-13: 978-0871242648) Book is $32 and will be available for purchase through OSHER@Dartmouth.
Sanders, John

John is Dartmouth Class of 1964. He practiced cardiac surgery at Northwestern University Medical School and DHMC for 40 years. This is John’s seventh year as co-leader of “Great Decisions.”

 

Wooster, Jim

Jim received his undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College, and an MS degree in Engineering and Business Administration (the Tuck-Thayer Program). After serving in the Navy, he had a career with New England Telephone and NYNEX. Jim has been co-leader of the “Great Decisions” course for the past 23 years.