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SUMMARY:[Great Decisions] Climate Action and Collaboration: An International Perspective
DESCRIPTION:October 24th @ 6:30 pm\n\nWoodstock Library\n\nPresenters: Dr. Yue Chen and Xixi Chen\n\nHow do global and regional tensions impact energy security\, energy access and the transition to Net Zero?  What opportunitieis are at hand? How might risks and finances be managed?\n\nPresenter bios:
URL:https://staging.wacmhv.org/event/great-decisions-climate-action-and-collaboration-an-international-perspective/
LOCATION:Woodstock Public Library District\, 5 Library Ln\, Woodstock\, NY\, 12498\, United States
CATEGORIES:2025 Past Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250929T183000
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SUMMARY:[Great Decisions] Competition\, Cold War or Conflict? Navigating U.S.-China Relations in Tense Times
DESCRIPTION:September 29th @ 6:30 – 7:30 pm \n  \nBoardman Road Library\, Poughkeepsie \n\n\n\nFacilitated by Martin Charwat for the World Affairs Council of the Mid-Hudson Valley. \nThere is one thing that people can agree on across the aisle in Washington\, DC: The United States is in a strategic competition with a rising China that poses a range of economic\, political\, and military security challenges.
URL:https://staging.wacmhv.org/event/great-decisions-competition-cold-war-or-conflict-navigating-u-s-china-relations-in-tense-times/
LOCATION:Boardman Library\, 141 Boardman Rd\, Poughkeepsie\, NY\, 12603\, United States
CATEGORIES:2025 Past Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250915T183000
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SUMMARY:[Great Decisions] CANCELLED - India: Between China\, the West\, and the Global South
DESCRIPTION:TO BE RESCHEDULED! \nFacilitated by Shantha Thangiah from the World Affairs Council of the Mid-Hudson Valley \n\n\n\nAs the Republic of India celebrates its 75th anniversary as of January 2025\, the world’s most populous nation and largest democracy continues to defy simple categorization.
URL:https://staging.wacmhv.org/event/great-decisions-india-between-china-the-west-and-the-global-south/
LOCATION:Boardman Library\, 141 Boardman Rd\, Poughkeepsie\, NY\, 12603\, United States
CATEGORIES:2025 Past Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250623T183000
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SUMMARY:[Great Decisions] AI and American National Security
DESCRIPTION:Facilitated by Jean-Claude Fouere (AIEducation4All@gmail.com) \n\n\n\nArtificial Intelligence (AI) is a powerful emerging technology that is already affecting many facets of our society from producing content (texts\, images\, videos\, audio\, music) to generate “deep-fakes” of such content. The unchecked progress in generative AI facilitates serious misuse through misinformation and discrimination. \n\n\n\nThe presentation will present some of the potential risks from AI to national security and discuss the opportunities and limits of global AI “rules of the road”. It will also review the current approach to AI and related security in the USA\, and the global perspective on AI.
URL:https://staging.wacmhv.org/event/great-decisions-ai-and-american-national-security/
LOCATION:Woodstock Public Library District\, 5 Library Ln\, Woodstock\, NY\, 12498\, United States
CATEGORIES:2025 Past Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250519T183000
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SUMMARY:[Great Decisions] America at a Global Crossroads
DESCRIPTION:Facilitated by Richard Levitt \n\n\n\nThe U.S.\, polarized and divided\, faces a world of challenges\, dangers\, and uncertainties. Conflict and disorder have become the defining features of world politics.
URL:https://staging.wacmhv.org/event/great-decisions-america-at-a-global-crossroads/
LOCATION:Woodstock Public Library District\, 5 Library Ln\, Woodstock\, NY\, 12498\, United States
CATEGORIES:2025 Past Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250414T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250414T193000
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SUMMARY:[Great Decisions] Future of NATO and European Security
DESCRIPTION:Facilitated by Richard Levitt \n\n\n\nEurope is frightened and frightened 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”
URL:https://staging.wacmhv.org/event/great-decisions-future-of-nato-and-european-security/
LOCATION:Woodstock Public Library District\, 5 Library Ln\, Woodstock\, NY\, 12498\, United States
CATEGORIES:2025 Past Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250407T183000
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SUMMARY:Artificial Intelligence Presentation and Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Facilitated by Jean-Claude Fouere (AIEducation4All@gmail.com) \n\n\n\nArtificial Intelligence – An Introduction \n\n\n\nAI represents a remarkable leap forward in human innovation\, allowing machines to mimic human intelligence and perform tasks that were once the sole domain of our brains. AI is increasingly becoming part of our daily lives\, from voice assistants to chatbots to creating artwork and producing videos. It is also transforming how businesses and industries operate. We benefit from it while also being at its mercy. \n\n\n\nThis presentation will present a short history of AI development and review the most common current AI applications\, with a special focus on how AI affects us individually and impacts our society. We will consider moral and ethical issues associated with AI\, including the reshaping of many jobs\, the spread of fake information\, the loss of privacy\, and the need for wise regulation of AI.
URL:https://staging.wacmhv.org/event/artificial-intelligence-presentation-and-discussion/
LOCATION:Woodstock Public Library District\, 5 Library Ln\, Woodstock\, NY\, 12498\, United States
CATEGORIES:2025 Past Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250331T183000
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SUMMARY:[Great Decisions] American Policy in the Middle East: Taking Stock and Looking Ahead
DESCRIPTION:Facilitated by Ambassador Fred Hof \n\n\n\nAnalysts of American policy in 2025 have the unusual advantage of assessing the new president’s likely policies against the backdrop of what he did in his first term\, four years earlier. The prognosis is not positive.
URL:https://staging.wacmhv.org/event/great-decisions-american-policy-in-the-middle-east-taking-stock-and-looking-ahead-2/
LOCATION:Woodstock Public Library District\, 5 Library Ln\, Woodstock\, NY\, 12498\, United States
CATEGORIES:2025 Past Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250324T183000
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SUMMARY:[Great Decisions] American Policy in the Middle East: Taking Stock and Looking Ahead
DESCRIPTION:Facilitated by Ambassador Fred Hof \n\n\n\nAnalysts of American policy in 2025 have the unusual advantage of assessing the new president’s likely policies against the backdrop of what he did in his first term\, four years earlier. The prognosis is not positive.
URL:https://staging.wacmhv.org/event/great-decisions-american-policy-in-the-middle-east-taking-stock-and-looking-ahead/
LOCATION:Boardman Library\, 141 Boardman Rd\, Poughkeepsie\, NY\, 12603\, United States
CATEGORIES:2025 Past Events
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