CREATIVE RETIREMENT including
Great Decisions and Friday Roundtable
Jim's Notes 
Resumed by ZOOM March 12, 2021.
4 . Modern Slavery and Human Trafficing
5 . U.S. Relations with the Northern Triangle of Central America
6 . China's Road into Latin America
7 . The Philippines and the U.S.
8 . Artificial Intelligence and Data
1 . Climate Change and the Global Order -- Intro to Global Warming
2 . India and Pakistan
3 . Red Sea Security
Suspended by Pandemic
1 . Refugees and Global Migration
2 . The Middle East: Regional Disorder
3 . Nuclear Negotiations: Back to the Future?
4 . The Rise of Populism in EuropeNuclear Negotiations: Back to the Future?
5 . Decoding U.S.- China Trade
6 . Cyber Conflict and Geopolitics
7 . The United State and Mexico: Partnership Tested
8 . State of the State Department and Diplomacy
1 . Waning Pax Americana?
2 . Russia's Foreign Policy
3 . China and America
4 . Media and Foreign Policy
5 . Turkey in Crisis
6 . U.S. Global Engagement
7 . South Africa's Fragil
8 . Global Health
1 . European Union
2 . Trade Policy
3 . South China Sea
4 . Saudi Arabia
5 . Geopolitics of Energy
6 . Latin America
7 . Afghanistan/Pakistan
8 . Nuclear Security
1 . Middle East Alliances
2 . Islamic State
3 . The Kurds
4 . Migration
5 . The Koreas
6 . United Nations
7 . Climate Change
8 . Cuba and the U.S.
2015 -- click to activate links
Great Decisions -- Foreign Policy Association series
1 . Russia and the Near Abroad -- Feb 06
2 . Privacy in the Digital Age -- Feb 20
3 . Sectarianism in the Middle East -- Mar 06
4 . India Changes Course -- Mar 13 -- college closed 3/20
5 . U.S. Policy Toward Africa -- Apr 03
6 . Syria's Refugee Crisis -- Apr 17
7 . Human Trafficking in the 21st Century -- May 01
8 . Brazil's Metamorphosis -- May 15
Friday Roundtable
Choices in Retirement -- Jan 16, 2015
GLOBAL Priorities - Copenhage Consensus -- Jan 30, 2015
Marshalltown Cop Shop -- Feb 13, 2015 by Pat Gourley
InEquality -- Feb 27 by Kent Guthery
Global Warming Hoax -- March 27
Volcanos -- April 10
God and Government -- April 24
A-bomb 1 -- May 08
- - - end point - - -
BioGarden,Apes -- May 13
Peace Corp -- May 29 <-- new
Sustainable Agriculture -- June 12
Care for Aging Parents -- June 26 a change
Smarter Than Us -- planned for about August
New Culture Coming -- presentation, .doc
Miscellaneous
Great Decisions -- Foreign Policy Association series
1 . Defense Technology
2 . Israel and the U.S.
3 . Turkey's challenges
4 . Islamic awakening
5 . Energy Independence
6 . Food and Climate
7 . China's Foreign Policy
8 . U.S. trade policy
Friday Roundtable
2013
Great Decisions
1. Future of the Euro
2. Egypt
3. NATO
4. Myanmar
5. Intervention
6. Iran
7. China in Africa
8. Threat Assessment
Friday Roundtable
Jan 18. Gun Control
Apr 12. Tour of Italy
Apr 26. Hubris
May 24. Climate Change
June 21. Alient Energy
June 28. Remembering Vietnam War
July 05. Defense of Marriage Act
July 19. Health Care and Age
July 19. Scientology
Aug 02 Marshalltown crime and poverty
Aug 15. [MCHM] POW in Iowa - Camp Algona
Aug 16. Lincoln in Springfield
Sep 06. Privacy. Mike Grubber.
Sep 20. ObamaCare -- Changes at hospital
Oct 04. Palestine/Israel
Oct 18. Senior Living
Nov 01. Middle East Oil and Islam -- origins
Nov 15. Supreme Court Decisions
Dec 06. Christmas Brunch
2012
Great Decision
1 . Middle East Realignment
2 . Promoting Democracy
3 . Mexico
4 . Cybersecurity
5 . Exit for Afghanistan & Iraq
6 . State of the Oceans
7 . Indonesia
8 . Energy Geopolitics
Friday Rountable.
2011
Great Decisions
1. Rebuilding Haiti
2. National Security
3. Horn of Africa
4. Financial Crisis
5. Germany Ascendant
6. Nonproliferation
7. Caucasus
8. Multilateralism
2010
Great Decisions
1. Special Envoys
2. Kenya/Responsibility to Protect
3. Global Crime
4. China
5. Global Financial Crisis
6. Russia and its neighbors
7. Persian Gulf
8. Peacebuilding
2009
Great Decisions
1. US and Rising Powers -- meeting notes.
2. Afghanistan and Pakistan -- meeting notes.
3. Energy -- pre-meeting notes.
4. Arctic -- my presentation.
5. Egypt
6. Global Food Crisis -- Everybody had thoughts on this topic
7. Cuba -- Class notes
8. Human Rights
- 1 . Palestinian Issues
- 2 . Future of Food
- 3 . Future of Mankind
- 4 . Myth ,Legend, Fact
- 5 . Medical Bill
- 6 . First Gulf War
- 7 . Capitalism
- 8 . Water Wars
- 9 . Voter Owned Iowa Clean Elections
- 10. Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
- 11. Immigration
- 12. Afghanistan
- 13. Poverty
2008
Great Decisions
1 . Iraq
2 . European Integration
3 . Enemies :
4 . Russia
5 . Defense Policy : - April 11, 2008
6 . Latin America
7 . U.S.- China
8. Foreign Aid
Astronomy -- Oct-Nov 2008
- Time Scale or as a Word.doc
Questions about Man
- Global Warming
2007
1 . Middle East
2 . Climate Change
3 . U.S. - Mexico
4 . Migration
5 . South Africa
6 . International Justice
7 . Central Asia
8 . Children' Rights
Astronomy -- Oct-Nov 2007
Garret Lisi - Talk.
2006
I gave the coordinator a year off. Too outspoken.
2005
Islam
3. Outsourcing
Darfur
Global Poverty
2004
4 . Europe
8 . Public diplomacy and U.S. Foreign policy -- May 28, 2004
Educational Resources
- TED Talks
- Great Courses mb#hm mb01
- Big Think
- Yale
- Harvard
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