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
Scholars Online
Bring university scholars into your classrooms with video featuring top scholars answering specific question in his or her field of expertise.Teaching with the News
Choices' Teaching with the News program provides online lessons and resources on a range of current international issues.
Web Links
Council on Foreign Relations
A website that offers clear information about terrorismForeign Affairs
A leading mainstream publication on international affairs topicsGlobalization 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 leadersUnited Nations
The official website of the United NationsUnited 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
