Great Decisions Master Class 27
Great Decisions Master class lectures are presented by Jeffrey S. Morton, the Pierrepont Comfort Chair in Political Science at Florida Atlantic University, and a Fellow at the Foreign Policy Association. He holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from the University of South Carolina and an M.A. from Rutgers University. Dr. Morton has delivered the Great Decisions program to live audiences since 1999.
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1. American Foreign Policy and the Future of Multilateralism
Over the postwar decades, the United States played a leadership role in building multilateral regimes and institutions across a wide range of policy areas. It was a founder of the United Nations and champion of the Bretton Woods system, and during and after the Cold War, Washington played an impo...
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2. American Options in the Middle East
The Trump administration’s war with Iran marks another major upheaval in the United States’ fraught strategic relations with the region. Looking beyond the day-to-day military dangers and diplomatic maneuvers, what are America’s major grand policy options for the region? What are America’s choice...
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3. The Future of Germany in Europe and the Atlantic World
Germany has tied its foreign policy to Europe and the Atlantic alliance, fashioning what some have called a civilian great power role. The Russian war on Ukraine, the return of the Trump administration, and the rise of right-wing movements on the continent have shifted the ground upon which Germa...
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4. U.S.-China: The Case for Engagement
The trajectory of US-China relations in the years ahead will be a defining feature of world politics. In a two-superpower world, rivalry and conflict may, to some extent, be inherent and inevitable. But what might be the terms for a more constructive relationship? Can the two countries build guar...
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5. Brazil and the Global South: Confronting a New America
Under the banner of America First, Donald Trump has redefined the country’s relations with the rest of the world, including Brazil and the Global South. Two years into Trump 2.0, what are the responses of Brazil and the Global South to American foreign policy? What sorts of judgements are Brazil ...
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6. AI and American Choices
AI is the leading edge of a technological revolution that is shaking the world. How will the AI revolution, and its associated economic, technological, military, and political transformations, alter the terms of international relations? What are America’s national security and foreign policy choi...
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7. Energy Security: Challenges for American Foreign Policy
The American/Israeli war with Iran and the ongoing blocking of the flow of oil from the Strait of Hormuz has triggered a crisis in the global oil and energy economy. For all regions of the world, the basic terms of energy security have been rendered unstable and uncertain. Not since the 1970s hav...
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8. Organized Crime in the Americas
Organized crime in the Americas has become a sprawling and multifaceted transnational activity, unfolding on many fronts — drug smuggling, human trafficking, illegal mining, cybercrime, money laundering, private militaries, narco-violence, and so forth. Behind this activity are weak political ins...
