This self-facilitated group will discuss eight critical international issues facing the U.S. using the Foreign Policy Association’s study guide. All participants will receive their book.

Topics include: the waning of Pax Americana?, Russia’s foreign policy, China and America: the new geopolitical equation, Media and foreign policy, Turkey: a partner in crisis, U.S. global engagement and the military, South Africa’s fragile democracy, and
Global health: progress and challenges.

This study group for those 50 and over will meet for two hours on January 23, February 6 and 20, March 6 and 20, April 17, May 1 and 15, and June 5. It will be led by instructors Barbara Comai and Leo Shedden.