Join us for the kickoff to the 2018 Great Decisions foreign policy discussion program. Learn more about the program, get connected with a group and pick up discussion materials.
Markham Collins, professor emeritus of international business and finance in the Collins College of Business at the University of Tulsa, is the featured speaker. Collins has served as vice provost for Global Education and co-director of the team that developed the Global Scholars program at TU, in which students work in internships abroad or research programs in other countries as part of their degree. Great Decisions is America’s largest civic-education program on U.S. foreign policy and global affairs. The Great Decisions program is produced by the Foreign Policy Association to provide guidelines for starting and promoting Great Decisions discussion groups. It began in 1954 and the program has been active in Tulsa through the Friends of the Tulsa City-County Libraries for close to 50 years. There is a briefing book that highlights eight of the most thought-provoking foreign policy challenges facing Americans. It provides background information, current data and policy options for each. Most importantly though is that it serves as the focal text for discussion groups. The book costs $20 and will be available for purchase with cash or a check. The 2018 topics are: "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 challenge."
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