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PREPARE to DISCUSS the WORLD
EXPLORE 2020 Topics
The Savannah Council on World Affairs and The Learning Center of SCI are pleased to co-sponsor Great Decisions in the Spring 2020 under the leadership of SCWA Board Member, Mohamed H. Mukhtar, Ph.D.
Great Decisions is America’s largest discussion program on world affairs.
Great Decisions is the nation’s oldest grassroots international policy discussion program. Published annually by the Foreign Policy Association.
StreamN’ through YouTube, Netflix, Amazon, etc. has revolutionized documentary viewing and brings some of the world’s most critical issues to heart through high-quality, nonfiction content. Amongst SCWA Members’ recommendations, we’ve picked out some of our favourites.
Recommend your favorite world affairs’ documentary, please send an email with program details to savannahcwa@gmail.com
DOC to WATCH: Netflix
“American Factory”
American Factory recently won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, by Higher Ground Productions. The movie follows Chinese company Fuyao’s factory in Moraine—a city near Dayton, Ohio—that occupies a shuttered GM plant. Cultures clash and the American Dream is debated.
Interview of Dr. Jacek Lubecki regarding his book Defense Politics of East-Central European Countries after 1989: Creating Stability in a Time of Uncertainty
The 2014 Ukrainian-Crimean crisis has raised serious questions in the West about Russian motivations and future policy directions. Now more than ever, it is imperative to explore the defensive perceptions, reactions, and preparations of neighbouring countries, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia. Is there a convergence of their approaches along similar paths, or do their different cultures and historical experiences prefigure a divergence of their defense policies? While Slovakia, Hungary and Czech Republic all seem to have little concern about Russia’s policies in Ukraine, the Polish response has been uniquely strong and militarized. Dr. Lubecki’s book explores reasons for the different responses to the crisis.
Dr. Jacek Lubecki is Associate Professor of Political Science and International Studies at Georgia Southern University. His publications include “Echoes of Latifundism” (Eastern European Politics and Societies, winter 2004), “Poland in Iraq” (The Polish Review, summer 2005), “Reconstructing Galicia” (Europe-Asia Studies, 2010), and “Józef Piłsudski’s Influence on Polish Armed Forces of the Interwar Period” (The Polish Review, 2011). His book entitled Defense Politics of East-Central European Countries after 1989: Creating Stability in a Time of Uncertainty (co-written with James Peterson) by Manchester University Press was published in 2019. His email is jlubecki@georgiasouthern.edu
