{"id":9223,"date":"2018-11-28T11:58:15","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T16:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/olli-draft\/?p=9223"},"modified":"2026-07-02T12:16:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T16:16:55","slug":"great-decisions-foreign-policy-discussion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/olli\/sig\/great-decisions-foreign-policy-discussion\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Decisions: Foreign Policy Discussion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">OLLI offers the Foreign Policy Association\u2019s Great Decisions discussion program every year. Great Decisions is America\u2019s largest discussion program on world affairs. These FREE monthly sessions get underway in February 2025.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This Special Interest Group meets monthly for 8 months (Feb &#8211; Sept.) and is FREE to all members who register. Members<strong> must register for each class separately online each semester<\/strong>. The OLLI discussions are member-led and will begin in February with sessions at 3:00PM on the third Thursday of the month and 10:00AM on the third Friday. (June dates vary due to holiday).<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>The topics for 2026 include:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Summer Semester<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<li>Multilateral Institutions in a Changing World Order July 16, 3:00PM&nbsp; and July 17, 10:00AM<\/li>\n<li>U.S. Engagement of Africa- August 20, 3:00PM and August 21, 10:00AM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Fall Semester<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Future of Human Rights &#8211; September 17, 3:00PM and September 18, 10:00AM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Learn more by going to the Foreign Policy Association website:<span style=\"color: #0000ff\"> <a style=\"color: #0000ff\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fpa.org\/\">fpa.org<\/a><\/span> and clicking on Great Decisions. Booklets can be ordered from this website <span style=\"color: #000000\">and<\/span>&nbsp;available for your Kindle on Amazon.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join other OLLI members for a series of world affair discussions based on the Great Decisions program of the Foreign Policy Association. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4688,"featured_media":6010,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sig"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/olli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/olli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/olli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/olli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4688"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/olli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9223"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/olli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18108,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/olli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9223\/revisions\/18108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/olli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/olli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/olli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/olli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}