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SUMMARY:Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
DESCRIPTION:The Witherle Library foreign affairs discussion group will meet
  by zoom on Wednesday\, February 4 from 5-6pm. The topic is the 2026 cale
 ndar of multilateral events scheduled to take place\, specifically how oth
 er nations might opt to address an increasingly aberrant US.  A suggested
  reading list follows. Please note that several are from international sou
 rces across the center right and left ideological spectrum to give a bette
 r sense of how other countries perceive the US threat.\nModerated by Barba
 ra Griffiths. All are welcome.\nRegister for the first time.\nSUGGESTED RE
 ADINGS\nIf you need help accessing any of these sources please contact the
  library and we'll be happy to help you.\nBackground:\nCouncil of Foreign 
 Relations 12/17/2025 ‘Global Summits to Watch in 2026’ (Clickable)\nht
 tps://www.cfr.org/articles/global-summits-watch-2026-bracing-new-global-di
 sorder\nNPR 1/22/2026 ‘Trump vs US Allies:  How Will This End?’ By Gr
 eg Myre (Clickable)\nhttps://www.npr.org/2026/01/22/g-s1-106678/trump-alli
 es-nato\nTwo US Perspectives from the US Center Left and Right:\nForeign A
 ffairs 12/16/2025 ‘The Allies after America\, In Search of Plan B’ by 
 Philip Gordon and Mara Karlin (By subscription or available at the library
 )\nhttps://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/allies-after-america-gordo
 n-karlin\nThe Atlantic 1/18/2026 ‘America vs The World’ by Robert Kag
 an (By subscription or available at the library)\nhttps://www.theatlantic.
 com/magazine/2026/03/trump-national-security-greenland-spheres-of-interest
 /685673/\nOverseas Perspectives\nYahoo Canada reports on a G7 Finance Mini
 sters meeting in Washington to discuss supply chains for rare earth and ot
 her minerals. (Clickable)\nhttps://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/g7-other-alli
 es-discuss-ways-025802876.html\nPolitico Europe reports on the recent reac
 tion of far right parties to Trump.  (Clickable)\nhttps://www.politico.eu
 /article/germany-donald-trump-afd-greenland-nicolas-maduro-national-rally/
 \nBritish (conservative) think tank Chatham House ‘It’s Time to Rethin
 k the G7’ (Clickable)\nhttps://www.chathamhouse.org/2025/06/its-time-ret
 hink-g7\nBritish Chatham House ‘The World in 2026’\nhttps://www.chatha
 mhouse.org/publications/the-world-today/2025-12/world-2026\nFrom Davos:  
 The following are the texts of speeches given by Canadian PM Mark Carney a
 nd French President Emmanuel Macron at Davos (pls note that the translatio
 n from French of Macron’s speech and a portion of Carney’s is the subp
 ar result of AI\, but you can\, with imagination\, catch the drift).\nhtt
 ps://www.weforum.org/stories/2026/01/davos-2026-special-address-by-mark-ca
 rney-prime-minister-of-canada/
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