This course offers an immersive exploration of today’s most pressing foreign policy challenges. Through a series of mini-cases, students will step into the shoes of advisors to world leaders and present systematic solutions to key issues facing their states. In response to current events, they will write strategic options memos that require identifying the national interests at stake, operationalizing the objectives they should achieve to meet the challenge, and formulating alternative strategies to achieve these objectives. In doing so, they will also engage in red teaming and adopt the perspective of potential adversaries to identify blind spots in proposed strategies. We cover critical issues from water conflicts in North Africa and the evolving US sanctions regime to the emergence of nuclear multipolarity and proliferation challenges in the Korean Peninsula, the US policy over Taiwan, Europe's quest for strategic autonomy, Arctic resource competition, and the great power competition in the Middle East.