Free Trade of Perfectionism?

Environmental Preservation or Economic Development?

Open Borders or Barred Doors?

Citizens in Mississippi will be able to debate these and otherissues at their local public library as part of a nationwideprogram on America’s future. The program, Choices for the 21stCentury: Defining Our Role in a Changing World, is a four-partreading and discussion series that will coincide with the 2000presidential campaign.

Free Trade of Perfectionism?

Environmental Preservation or Economic Development?

Open Borders or Barred Doors?

Citizens in Mississippi will be able to debate these andother issues at their local public library as part of a nationwideprogram on America’s future. The program, Choices for the 21stCentury: Defining Our Role in a Changing World, is a four-partreading and discussion series that will coincide with the 2000presidential campaign. Participants will wrestle with the broadquestions of our nation’s role in the world and look at the ways inwhich foreign policy decisions affect our domesticpriorities.

Sponsored in Mississippi by the Mississippi LibraryCommission, Friends of Mississippi Libraries, Inc., and theMississippi Humanities Council, this series is made possiblethrough a major grant from the National Endowment for theHumanities.

The format of the series enables participants to explore thechanges taking place in the world, weigh national priorities anddiscuss together — in the neutral setting of the public library –the directions U.S. policy should take in the post-Cold Warera.

Angela Leigh of the Department of History and PoliticalScience at Mississippi College will be the scholar/discussionleader. Leigh is a Ph.D candidate in the Department of Governmentand Foreign Affairs at the University of Virginia.

The Lincoln County Public Library in Brookhaven will behosting the series at 6 p.m. Thursday evenings May 18, 25 and June1.

Copies of the series reader, Defining Our Role in a ChangingWorld, are available for check-out from the library.

The Choices series has been developed by the Choices for the21st Century Education Project of the Watson Institute forInternational Studies at Brown University. The public isinvited.