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The U.S. and the Shifting Sands of Global Power: A New World Order?
Four In-Person Sessions
Mon., Sept. 29, Oct. 6, 13, 20, 2025, 7-9 pm MT

The U.S. has been viewed as the leader of the free world, particularly in its role in the UN and other international organizations like NATO and bilateral alliances or coalitions with Japan, South Korea, Israel and other countries. But now, in this new era of global power politics with the emergence of right-wing politics around the world, key questions arise: Is the U.S. still (or will it continue to be) the leader of the free world? What countries might take its place? What new roles might the U.S. play in global politics?

In this timely course, author and retired political science professor Paul Viotti shares surprising answers to these and many other questions. Viotti also closely examines U.S. relations with China, Japan, Russia and European states. Plus, he sheds new light on Canadian and U.S. economic and military relations along with U.S. claims to Greenland, the Panama Canal and Gaza. “The causes of war and factors relating to peace underlie all of our discussions,” Viotti says. “Global power dynamics have a direct effect on both homeland security and the American economy.” Part of this course also covers the global role of the U.S. dollar, the subject covered in Viotti’s book, The Dollar and National Security: The Monetary Component of Hard Power.

recently retired as an emeritus professor from the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the ������ where he researched, wrote, published and taught courses on foreign policy, national security and international relations theory. He has published several books and articles and has been active in many associations’ international security sections.