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Great Decisions 2025: Lewes (IA224)

IA – International Affairs

Lewes (Trinity Faith Education Building) | February 5, 2025-April 23, 2025

Wednesday: 10:45 AM-12:00 PM

This is a hybrid course. One section meets on site at the location listed; and one section meets online only.

Seminar discussion of the issues included in the Great Decisions textbook, published by the Foreign Policy Association (FPA). Topics are U.S. foreign policy; changing leadership of the world economy; U.S.-China relations; international cooperation on climate change; future of NATO; AI and national security; Indias geopolitical location; Middle East policy; and more. Participants are encouraged to lead discussion on topics of special interest. Purchase of text book required: Great Decisions 2025 Briefing Book, G. John Ikenberry, 978-0-87124-292-1.

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This offering meets for a total of 11 session(s).

INSTRUCTORS: Sergei Boboshko, Curt Smith

BOBOSHKO, SERGEI–B.A., European history, Queens College (CUNY). Interest in foreign affairs as a result of a more than 30-year banking career, principally with The Chase Manhattan Bank (now JPMorgan Chase) in New York and various assignments overseas, as well as from family and personal experiences.

SMITH, CURT–B.A., fine arts, Washington and Lee University; commissioned as an Army intelligence officer 1976, served on active duty 1977-1988; subsequently served as a federal employee for intelligence operations and analysis 1988-2012; retired from the Army Reserve as a lieutenant colonel in 1999.

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