Supplemental Materials

The U.S. Role in a Changing World

The U.S. Role in a Changing World helps students reflect on global changes, assess national priorities, and decide for themselves the role the United States should play in the world today. Readings include discussions of security, economy, environment, culture, and politics.

Online Resources from the Choices Program

Graphic Organizers
You can use these graphic organizers to help students better understand the readings in The U.S. Role in a Changing World.

Scholars Online resources include interviews with scholars. These short, informative videos can be used in conjunction with student readings or with lessons that accompany each unit.

Teaching with the News provides online lessons and resources on a range of current international issues.

Online Ballot: The U.S. Role in the World

Youth Speak Out: Report on Student Views

Web Links

Council on Foreign Relations
A website that offers clear information about terrorism

Foreign Affairs
A leading mainstream publication on international affairs topics

Globalization 101
 Sponsored by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, this site provides resources for students on globalization issues.

Online NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
A PBS news program with in-depth interviews with world leaders

United Nations
The official website of the United Nations

United States Department of State
Information on U.S. policy on the international issues faced by the United States

Books

Friedman, Thomas. The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization (New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1999). 394 pages.

Huntington, Samuel P. The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1998). 368 pages.

Ignatieff, Michael. The Warrior’s Honor: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience (New York: Henry Holt, 1998). 224 pages.

Mandelbaum, Michael. The Ideas That Conquered the World: Peace, Democracy, and Free Markets in the Twenty-first Century (New York: Public Affairs, 2002). 512 pages.

Nye, Joseph. The Paradox of American Power: Why the World’s Only Superpower Can’t Go it Alone (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002). 240 pages

NOTE: This is a selected list of resources focused on the topic of the curriculum unit, The U.S. Role in a Changing World. Additional resources will be added to this site as they become available.