The Great Decisions Discussion Program, a free community discussion series, is designed to encourage debate and discussion of the role of the United States in world affairs. The program provides materials that help people reach informed opinions on issues and encourages them to participate in the foreign-policy process. Developed by the Foreign Policy Association (FPA) in 1954, the Great Decisions Discussion Program is the longest-standing and largest grassroots world affairs educational program of its kind.
This year’s series starts on Feb. 22. It is set against the general background of American leadership as the “indispensable nation” versus isolationism, prompted by President Trump’s challenging of former President Harry Truman’s rules-based international order led by Washington and supported by our NATO allies.
Topics include Middle Eastern regions, development of cyber conflicts, refugees and global migration, the U.S. and Mexico, populism in Europe, U.S.-China trade, nuclear weapons and policies of nuclear states and the precarious state of the State Department and diplomacy.
You are warmly invited to join our Great Decisions discussions on these issues. We meet at noon in the Fellowship Hall of William Street United Methodist Church, 28 W. William St., Delaware. Attendees are welcome to bring a brown-bag lunch. Complimentary coffee and tea will be provided. Following each discussion, participants can complete a survey, prepared by the Foreign Policy Association, to add their opinions to thousands of others across the nation. Survey results will be sent to executive and legislative policymakers in Washington, D.C.
Great Decisions is generously sponsored by the American Association of University Women, Kiwanis, the League of Women Voters, the International Studies Program at Ohio Wesleyan University, William Street United Methodist Church, Willow Brook Christian Communities, Anchor and Away Travel and private donors.
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