Great Decisions: Changing Leadership of the World Economy

America's Global Affairs Discussion Program

Great Decisions is America's largest discussion on world affairs. Forsyth County Public Library and the University of North Georgia (UNG) will present information and lead discussions on a range of fascinating and timely geopolitical topics selected by the Foreign Policy Association.

This week’s topic is U.S. Changing Leadership of the World Economy presented by Dr. Cristian Harris.

Under President Biden, the U.S. has advanced new ideas about trade, technology, industrial policy, competition with China, and the organization of the world economy. For most of the postwar era, the U.S. has tied its global leadership to cooperative agendas aimed at creating a more open-world trading system, but that has apparently come to an end. What are America’s options and opportunities as a leader of the world economy? How will America’s “foreign policy for the middle class” and strategic competition with China impact its leadership role? How can the postwar rules and institutions of the world economy be made safe for economic nationalism and great power competition?

For additional information and resources on U.S. Changing Leadership of the World Economy, please visit the Foreign Policy Association website.

Great Decisions topics for 2025 include:

January 8: American Foreign Policy at a Crossroads

January 15: U.S. Changing Leadership of the World Economy

January 22: U.S.-China Relations

January 29: India: Between China, the West, and the Global South

February 5: International Cooperation on Climate Change

February 12: The Future of NATO and European Security

February 19: AI and American National Security

February 26: American Foreign Policy in the Middle East: Taking Stock and Looking Ahead

Each discussion is open to the public and registration is not required.

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