Welcome to:
GREAT DECISIONS 2010

"Great Decisions", a community discussion group focusing on foreign policy issues, is now forming in Blacksburg. This annual nationwide, nonpartisan program is prepared by the Foreign Policy Association (FPA) and has been offered for the past 56 years. The program is free and open to the public and is being sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Montgomery County, Virginia, again this year.

A study guide is available ($16.50) which provides impartial, thought-provoking analyses of 8 issues of concern to U.S. policymakers today. (Also, a copy of the study guide will be on reserve in the Blacksburg Library.) The topics selected for discussion this year are the following:

Special Envoys

Kenya and R2P

Global Crime

U.S. -- China Security Relations

Global Financial Crisis

Russia and Its Neighbors

The Persian Gulf

Peacekeeping

Additional information is available on the FPA website:
http://www.fpa.org/info-url_nocat4705/info-url_nocat.htm

The first meeting of the Great Decisions Study Group will be held on Wednesday, January 27, 2010, from 11:30 AM to 1 PM at the Blacksburg Library in the Community Room. Participants should feel free to bring a bag lunch.

To sign up to participate in this discussion group and to reserve your copy of the study guide, please contact:

Nancy Warren	Jane Sprague
Phone: (540) 951-1660 Email: cnwarren@aol.com	Phone: (540) 961-1532 Email: janesprague@verizon.net

(The FPA site also has some great foreign policy blogs that you may find interesting. The photographs found on these blogs are worth the visit to the site.)