Great Decisions: The Changing World Order

This free event is being held in-person and is open to everyone. An optional dinner will start at 7:15 following the presentation. The dinner is $25 for Woman’s Club members and $30 for non-members (plus service fee and taxes).

Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States emerged as a lone superpower leading a unipolar world. President George H.W. Bush proclaimed a New World Order to be marked by peace, prosperity, and liberal democracy.

Thirty years later we live in a very different world. The United States, while still a major power with the world’s largest military, must navigate a multi-polar world and significant new challenges. First and foremost is the rise of China whose economy is now on par with the U.S. and is flexing its influence throughout the world as it seeks natural resources and markets for its goods. However, China is not alone as a rising power.

The BRICS nations, Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, are increasingly influential international players and often have different interests and values than the U.S. American leadership in the world is also in question with significant portions of the U.S. electorate wanting more focus on domestic issues and less attention to foreign affairs. What could be the role of the U.S. in this changing world order?

Gary Prevost, presenter

Gary Prevost is Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Latin American Studies at the College of St. Benedict and St. John’s University and Research Associate and Honorary Professor at Nelson Mandela University in South Africa.  He is the author or co-editor of close to twenty books and 100 academic articles on a range of international subjects with a primary focus on Latin America. He has taught courses on international relations for fifty years and is regular lecturer in the Great Decisions program of Global Minnesota.

The Great Decisions program addresses some of the most critical foreign policy issues facing the United States each year. Global Minnesota facilitates the statewide Great Decisions program by providing access to a roster of local foreign policy experts and to discussion materials produced by the Foreign Policy Association. Great Decisions books contain articles and materials authored by experts on each topic to provide a nonpartisan basis for understanding the important global issues of our time. A limited number of discounted books are available for purchase by Global Minnesota members and groups ordering ten or more books. Join Global Minnesota and the Woman’s Club of Minneapolis for an in-depth discussion of this important topic.

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