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Mark your calendar for spring semester! — Registration begins Jan. 5; classes start Feb. 2

THE NEW GEOPOLITICAL ORDER (IA226)

IA – International Affairs

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On-Demand (online viewing is on your own schedule)

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 is a recorded “on-demand” version of a class originally taught in a previous semester. View this class on your own schedule. Viewing link is emailed to participants prior to the semester start.


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. (IA229)


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