Global Agenda is the University of Delaware's annual Spring semester international affairs speaker series, free and open to the public, and an undergraduate course in which students meet practitioners in foreign policy and media from the United States and other nations. Students in the course meet privately with all guest speakers prior to the evening presentation.
In 2012, Global Agenda's theme is "Spies, Lies & Sneaky Guys: Espionage and Intelligence in the Digital Age."
The international craft of espionage and intelligence gathering, once essentially a two-player, Soviet-American game during the Cold War, has become a multi-player game in the digital age. New technologies empower political, religious, and economic activists and terrorists worldwide. But those same technologies - from the Internet to pilotless “drone” surveillance tools also offer powerful new defensive - and offensive - weapons to the United States. Global Agenda 2012 explores new challenges and opportunities in the field of international intelligence.
Taught and moderated by Prof. Ralph Begleiter
