Course Details

810 - America’s International Political Challenges

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July 19-22
8:30 - 10:00 AM
M - Th
Cost - $55
Huntsman Hall, Room 132 (bldg 9)


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Course Description: Examine critical Asian nations and issues where America must make & execute key foreign policy decisions. The challenges in our foreign relations — some currently at elevated tensions — will: (1) set our international posture for years to come, and (2) determine America’s future level of influence in Asia and other international regions. The selected nations/regions and issues that challenge us will affect our ability to influence world events and exert our policies. Notions of Pax Americana will be explored, along with US political goals and our ability to be politically dominant. Lessons: India Changes Course - Two Koreas - Conflict in the South China Sea - Pax Americana: How Real? How Effective? How Enduring? - Defense Spending, Endless Wars, and the US Taxpayer.

Course Instructor: Mark Schwartz has a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and twenty-two years in US Air Force, Lt. Colonel as an aviator and war plans specialist/emergency actions. He taught at SaddleBrooke Institute for Learning in Retirement and Osher Lifelong Learning Institute and taught courses at Utah State University Summer Citizen Program in 2019. He lectures at the Pima Air Museum, Friends of the SaddleBrooke Library, SaddleBrooke Great Decisions & SaddleBrooke Rotary. He has published papers on military and political topics. Has completed numerous professional military schools and thirty years’ experience in aerospace industry.
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