634 American Foreign Policy 2025 ONLINE
Class | Registration opens 2/3/2025 11:00 AM
The course will focus on eight issues of American foreign policy presented in the Great Decisions booklet published by the Foreign Policy Association. The 2025 booklet topics are: American foreign policy at a crossroads; U.S. changing leadership of the world economy; U.S.-China relations; India: between China, the West and the Global South; International cooperation on climate change; the future of NATO and European security; Artificial Intelligence and American national security; and American foreign policy in the Middle East.
Additional readings will sometimes be recommended from newspapers or periodicals by the instructor or class members.
One or two of these topics will be discussed in each class. The discussion will concentrate on the U.S. foreign policy options, opportunities and difficulties and which policy should be chosen. Class will proceed primarily by discussion, with little lecture by the instructor.
It is recommended that students stay informed about current events by reading The New York Times, Washington Post and/or Wall Street Journal, and/or the magazines of Foreign Affairs or Foreign Policy.
Expectations of Participants: Computer Literacy/Access, Email
Thom Travis
THOM TRAVIS was a professor of international relations and political science at Bucknell University for 33 years. He founded the International Relations Program there and chaired it for 27 years. He received three teaching awards from the university. He has traveled to 120 countries and studied or taught in Italy, Russia and India. Thom has taught classes for BILL since 2010 and chaired the BILL curriculum committee for eight years.