The gathering of the OLLI International Affairs Discussion Group will be held on Wednesday, Jan 3, 3 p.m. at Stauffer’s Cafe and Pie Shoppe. David Forsythe, who will be the moderator, has offered the following topics and resources.

1. A liberal world order: past, present, future? What kind of world do Americans want, or at least will tolerate?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2017/10/03/donald-trump-has-made-liberal-internationalism-great-again/?utm_term=.d1f1361c5ead

https://www.openglobalrights.org/trumps-threats-to-a-liberal-world-order-are-not-entirely-new/

2. Do we have the right counter-terrorism policy? Can we reduce terrorism linked to the Islamic world?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/31/opinion/trump-niger-africa-desertification.html?_r=0

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/06/opinion/trump-foreign-policy-giveaway.html

3. Does anyone really care now about universal human rights? Or maybe American honor and values?

http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/04/06/trumps-damning-global-retreat-on-human-rights/

https://www.voanews.com/a/rohingya-myanmar-ethnic-cleansing-us-secretary-state-rex-tillerson-says/4130022.html