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FALL CLASSES START SEPTEMBER 2 — Registration & drop/add available through September 15

The New Geopolitical Order (IA226)

IA – International Affairs

Lewes (Trinity Faith Education Building) | October 15, 2025-November 12, 2025

Wednesday: 10:45 AM-12:00 PM

This is a hybrid course. One section meets on site at the location listed; and one section meets online only.

What might happen if other nations no longer look to America as a contributor to global peace and prosperity? This course explores the changing geopolitical landscape as the liberal rules-based international order of the past 80 years disintegrates at an accelerating pace. Students complete the course equipped to assess developments in the Great Power Competition shaping the evolution of a new global order.

This offering meets for a total of 5 session(s).

INSTRUCTOR: Christopher Mark

MARK, CHRISTOPHER — M.P.A., Princeton University; B.A., Oberlin College. Assistant U.S. Treasury representative in Paris; member, U.S. delegation to the Multilateral Trade Negotiations in Geneva; senior analyst in the CIA, preparing assessments for the U.S. president and senior policymakers. (IA226)

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