Great Decisions 2021

Great Decisions 2021

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

New

4/7/2021-5/26/2021

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

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$85.00

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During this eight-week course we will explore some of the great issues of the day and will 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, 5- to 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. A guest specialist will join the group each week.

This year’s topics include:
1. The Role of International Organizations in a Global Pandemic
2. Global Supply Chains and National Security
3. China and Africa
4. Korean Peninsula
5. Persian Gulf Security
6. Brexit and the European Union
7. The Fight Over the Melting Arctic
8. The End of Globalization?

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  • Great Decisions 2021 is available for purchase via the Osher office; the $36 total cost includes a shipping charge. This fee will be due at registration. (Note: Office has one copy available per household.)
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.