Global Agenda 2005

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All events - 7:30pm - Wednesdays - University of Delaware - Mitchell Hall
SPEAKERS	LOCATION	PARKING	RESOURCES	VIDEOS	PHOTOS	POSTERS	STUDENTS
FEB 23 Khouri	MAR 9 Ischinger	[RECESS]	APR 6 Chandrasekaran	APR 20 Martel	APR 26 Salbi	MAY 4 Sherman	MAY 18 CANCELLED

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	Global Agenda 2005 As President Bush begins his second term in office, he confronts a variety of domestic and international challenges. This course focuses on the global problems he faces, ranging from the continuing war in Iraq to other Middle East issues. Beyond the Middle East, we'll focus on the future of terrorism, problems with our closest friends and allies in Europe, and the difficulties of dealing with nuclear weapons programs in Russia, North Korea and Iran. We'll see how the U.S. can deal with humanitarian problems faced by women around the world, and with other issues. Approximately every other week, guest lecturers, practitioners in the foreign affairs community, visit the UD campus to explore with students their experience with these international challenges, and to offer their "prescriptions" for President Bush's new term in office. Students in this seminar will attend exclusive small-group talks and private dinners with visiting speakers, and will be joined by members of the university and public community who are invited to the series of Wednesday evening lectures. On intervening weeks, the class will explore topics upcoming and just passed in the speaker series. This course is appropriate for Juniors and Seniors interested in geopolitics in policy and journalism who are eager for lively interaction with our visiting speakers. Please note the unusual mechanics of the course: This class will meet once a week, on Wednesdays in Gore Hall Room 219. In weeks when there is a guest speaker, students are required to attend the following events with the speaker: class session, with limited enrollment to allow lots of interaction with the guest (begins at 3:30pm) - 219 Gore Hall informal reception, exclusive to students in the class, to allow off-topic discussions (5:00-6pm) - Blue & Gold Club dinner with the guest, exclusive to students in the class, to allow informal continuing discussion (begins at 6:00pm) - Blue & Gold Club NOTE: To make the event a rich opportunity for discussion, the dinners will be small. Approximately 10-12 students will be able to attend each dinner; a rotation system will be established early in the semester to assure all students have ample opportunity to converse with our guests. formal evening speaker event, open to students outside the class and to the general public (begins at 7:30pm) - Mitchell Hall. You are encouraged to bring a friend. In weeks when there is no guest speaker, the class will meet in Gore Hall on Wednesday at 3:30pm for discussion of the upcoming guest's topic and review of the previous week's speaker. This will be a standard-length class. (3:30-4:45pm) There will be readings - including a custom anthology created for this course by Foreign Affairs Magazine and from other current-affairs publications - and several papers, but no final exam. Registration is limited.