Great Decisions at the Library 2024
Here's the schedule for Great Decisions at the Library 2024.
NATO's future
with John Koenig, retired Deputy Permanent Representative to the U.S. Mission at NATO
Since
the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization (NATO) has come under increased scrutiny, not
because NATO troops are involved in the conflict, but because of its
role in relations between Russia and its neighbors. Will expanding
membership in NATO protect countries, or will it further provoke Russia?
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Understanding Indonesia
with Seattle-Surabaya (Inonesia) Sister City Association
Despite
its large size, Indonesia remains virtually invisible to most
Americans. But as one of the world's largest democracies, the world's
largest Muslim-majority nation, and as an economic driver of ASEAN, why
does it fly below the radar? What are current issues in U.S.- Indonesian relations, and what role can the country play in Asia?
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Economic Warfare
with David Rader, Senior Advisor in the Defense Innovation Unit of the Department of Defense.
The Oxford
English dictionary defines economic warfare as involving "an economic
strategy based on the use of measures (e.g. blockade) of which the
primary effect is to weaken the economy of another state." Economic
warfare can be of the ham-fisted variety, ala the sack of Carthage,
where the fleet was burned, the city razed, the populace sold into
slavery, and the ground sown with salt. Or, economic warfare can be less
sanguinary, yet still debilitating to a nation�s economy, such as when
an adversary gets a stranglehold on a crucial resource or technology.
Economic warfare also includes theft of an adversary's intellectual
property, economic sanctions, and subterfuges to evade economic
sanctions. The United States Department of Defense, the various U.S.
intelligence agencies, and other cabinet departments, defend our country
from foreign economic threats, enforce economic sanctions as imposed by
Congress and the President, and identify and counter emerging economic
threats. Unlike the traditional uniformed services, who must always be
ready to engage, those charged with the economic defense of the country
are always at war.
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GREAT DECISIONS PROGRAMS
Great Decisions is a nation-wide, non-partisan program of the Foreign Policy Association to broaden public involvement with the most important foreign policy
issues facing the United States. While enjoying coffee and pastries,
Great Decisions at the Library participants first view a 25-minute
Foreign Policy Association film on the topic under consideration and
then participate in a moderated discussion.
Copies of the Great Decisions Briefing Book can be purchased in hard copy or Kindle format from the Foreign Policy Association. A copy is available for reading at the Bainbridge Public Library Information Desk.
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