February 17 – The Future of NATO and European Security: Europe is frightened and frightening for the first time really since the 1980s, when nuclear sabers were rattling as the Soviet Union and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) both deployed contending intermediate range missiles along the dividing line of the military alliances. With Russia’s continued barbarity in Ukraine there is no escaping that Vladimir Putin intends not to be “European.”

Great Decisions Schedule:

• February 17: The Future of NATO and European Security with Martin Farrell, PhD, Retired, Ripon College
• February 24: International Cooperation on Climate Change with Elizabeth Wheat, PhD, UW Green Bay
• March 3: AI and American National Security with Dave Schroeder, MS, MA, CISSP, CEH, UW Madison
• March 10: U.S.-China Relations with Judd Kinzley, PhD, UW Madison
• March 17: India: Between China, the West, and the Global South with Amitabh Pal, Journalist/former Editor of The Progressive, Adjunct Professor at Edgewood College, Madison
• March 24: American Foreign Policy at a Crossroads with Martin Farrell, PhD, Retired, Ripon College

PLEASE NOTE: Great Decisions 2025 will be presented in a hybrid format—offered in-person in MPL’s Balkansky Community Room, as well as livestreamed simultaneously online on both our Facebook page (www.facebook.com/manitowoclibrary) and YouTube channel (unless otherwise indicated).