{"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":"2026-03-19T13:19:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T17:19:25","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 2025 include:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Spring Semester<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<li>U.S. China Relations- April 16, 3:00PM&nbsp; April 17, 10:00AM<\/li>\n<li>Today&#8217;s Nuclear Age- May 21, 3:00PM&nbsp; May 22, 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","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":17908,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/olli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9223\/revisions\/17908"}],"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}]}}