Anyone interested in expanding their knowledge of international relations and participating in active discussions of crucial global issues will find these engaging and insightful conversations of important topics of the day very interesting. Course participants will select four topics from the 2020-2021 Briefing Book to focus on this semester: The Role of International Organizations in a Global Pandemic; National Security; China and Africa; Korean Peninsula; Persian Gulf Security; Brexit and the European Union; The Fight over the Melting Arctic; The End of Globalization. Each session starts with a video on the topic prepared by the Foreign Policy Association, followed by engaged discussion among participants. The 2000-2001 Briefing Book will be provided to Live Course participants.
Rich Harrison is the retired Director of Research & Development for Baltimore Aircoil Co., a worldwide manufacturer of evaporative cooling equipment and ice thermal storage equipment. During his 39 years at BAC, he developed numerous innovative components of those products and received ten patents. He has a bachelor’s degree from Virginia Tech and a master’s degree from Purdue University. He resided in Columbia, Maryland, for 32 years and then found the light of the Eastern Shore.
Since entering his retirement years, Bob DeGour has become a fixture at Eastern Shore schools as the local Blue and Gold Officer for the US Naval Academy. His never-tiring efforts to give back find him in and out of the schools mentoring young people and teaching capstone courses in Biomed as well as Geopolitics to AP students. Bob is a 1973 U.S. Naval Academy graduate and was the first midshipman to study concurrently in a civilian university post graduate program. His classified thesis focused on socio-political systems in Pre-WW II Germany, the Soviet Union, and the Peoples Republic of China. He served in the Navy Intel Community before transitioning to the private sector. Enrollment in the Live ZOOM class is limited to 12. Choose between Live ZOOM Class Sessions or Recorded, Thursdays, April 1, 8, 15, 22 from 10:00-11:30 am $50.`To register for the course, or for more information about Chesapeake Forum Winter/Spring 2021 classes go to our website at https://chesapeakeforum.org/ or visit us on Facebook.
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