Join us for Great Decisions 2025!
Great Decisions is America's largest discussion program on world affairs. Every year, eight topics are chosen by a panel of experts. Before each of the eight programs, participants are asked to read the corresponding section in the Briefing Book. We will meet to watch a video then discuss the week's topic.

This year, we are excited to welcome Vinnie Ferraro as our Facilitator. Mr. Ferraro holds MIA in International Relations from Columbia University and a PhD in PolySci from MIT. He was on the Editorial Board at the New England Journal of Political Science, and has a long list of publications on topics related to Alternative Energy, International Relations, and Global Poverty, among others. For more information on Mr. Ferraro, please visit: Vincent A. Ferraro | Mount Holyoke College

Meetings will be held every other Tuesday, 4:30-6, beginning Feb. 11.
Please register and purchase your Briefing Book ahead of time. Briefing Books are $35. We accept cash or check (made out to the Richard Salter Storrs Library). You will be notified by email when the Briefing Books are available which is usually toward the end of January.

This Week's Topic: Feb. 25: U.S. Changing Leadership of the World Economy - 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?

Please Register in Advance!