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Professor Emeritus Philip Yale Nicholson Ph.D. will explore the state of global affairs and the possibilities both bright and dark that our common humanity faces at a time of accelerated changes in technologies economic interrelationships and the social consequences of demographic upheavals. We will review the ways that our existing nation state system and the United Nations have dealt with the urgencies and dangers that have arisen from climate change pandemic disease terrorist attacks the threat of war the issue of human rights and democracy and the resolution of economic conflicts. Finally we will take up what might be the most vexing question of all the absence of a unifying or visionary leadership in our recent past and what that can mean for the future.