Why does this issue get onto an agenda or not? What are the effects of the existing institutional structures in sustaining this policy? All of the materials that you have gathered (lecture notes, lecture power points on the KLE, seminar notes and notes on the readings) can help you think about the ways these models might apply to your particular area.
War makes states.’ Assess this statement with reference to the process of state formation in early modern Europe:Discuss?
Choose One Topic Only out of the 5 to write the paper.
State which one you are writing about at the top of the paper.
Can Austria’s attack on Serbia, the Soviet-Finnish War, and Russia’s attack on Ukraine be explained using the model of major-minor power wars?
Show the limitations of structural theories of World War I.
Show the limitations of institutional theories of World War I.
Show the logic of security dilemma explanations of European war.
Explain why fear does not explain combat source.
Fromkin, David. Europe’s Last Summer: Who Started the Great War in 1914? Vintage Books. 2005.
Andrade, Tonio. The Gunpowder Age: China, Military Innovation, and the Rise of the West in World History. Princeton University Press. 2016.
Kindsvatter, Peter S. American Soldiers: ground combat in the World Wars, Korea, and Vietnam. University Press of Kansas. 2003.
Link to books:
First book: https://usa1lib.org/book/853882/c739dc (download as pdf)
Second book : https://usa1lib.org/book/3046051/30e113 (download as pdf)
Third book: https://usa1lib.org/book/3647232/e637d3 (download as pdf)
“The military is the most important unelected component of government.” Evaluate this statement. In your answer, consider (a) the ways that militaries are involved in domestic politics around the world including their main tasks and (b) the other two main unelected components of government we discussed, including the main tasks of those components. Compared to these other unelected parts of government, is the military really the most important? Bring in examples from at least two of the nine Topic-in-Countries countries we are focusing on this semester (These include Brazil, Mexico, Iran, Nigeria, UK, Russia, Germany, China, and India)
Discuss how elites and the general public are “linked” in political systems around the world. In your answer, describe the two broad types of linkage and the positives and negatives of each of these linkage types. Also consider the different modes of linkage (interest groups, social movements, and political parties).
How do these modes of linkage allow the general population of a country to have a voice in that country’s political system? In your answer, bring in examples from at least two of the nine Topic-in-Countries countries we are focusing on this semester (These include Brazil, Mexico, Iran, Nigeria, UK, Russia, Germany, China, and India)
You can find the notes from the link here; https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1a8o1QyZvAZkbZB_IssQmmaZsuT5FyAIZ
Depict the strategic interactions between North and South, the two players, as a game.
Identify all dominant and dominated strategies. If a player does not have a dominant strategy explain why.
Explain what a pure strategy Nash equilibria (PSNE) is. (You only have to do this once, in your answer for Scenario A). Find all of them in each scenario or explain why there are none.
Explain what a Pareto Efficient situation means (you only have to do this once, in your answer for Scenario A). For each PSNE, comment on whether the outcome is Pareto Efficient or not. Explain why.
For each scenario, discuss what the game theoretical analysis implies about the likelihood that the OLD regime stays in power. If there is more than one PSNE in a game, what can we predict about the game’s outcome?
How is the media, biased, more towards progressive-liberal values, conservative values or in both directions depending on the specific media outlets you may access? Explain your response.
Describe in detail the different types of bias that the media uses. (This should be your main content). i.e. Bias by omission, bias by selection…….etc., etc…
Find two or more examples of media bias (video clip, article, images) and explain in detail how these example/s represent media bias and the impact that it has on public opinion.
How can personal ambition in politics be harmful?
What is Vladimir Putin’s position on ballistic missile defense?
What is Vladimir Putin’s “operational code?”
To what extent has Vladimir Putin been motivated by a drive for power compared to his predecessor Boris Yeltsin, and how has Putin’s personal ambitions shaped Russia’s relations with the United States?
How has the select committee system in the British parliament developed since its establishment in the 1970s? What effect do these committees have on both culture and policy at Westminster?
Describe policies, their rights, which institution is responsible, and influence from government and citizens.
American’s for Safe Access(marijuana) OR Planned Parenthood Action Fund – whatever you would rather write about.
Describe ONE event in the last years five years or so which highlights the group’s interaction with the political process. 2) Such an interaction could highlight the group’s relationship to a particular politician, a political party, and/or a specific piece of legislation in Congress. 3) Provide a commentary of the event which includes BOTH your view of the issues as well as an assessment of the positives and negatives of the overall involvement of the organization in the political process.
