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Opinion Survey How Well Informed Do You Feel You Are?
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Lesson 5
History, Geopolitics and International Affairs
Opinion SurveyVSAK Scores
Opinion SurveyHow Well Informed Do You Feel You Are?
Opinion SurveyMajor Sources of News on Current Events
Daily Social MediaWashington Post, USA TodayCNN, Associated Press, MSNBCFNC, CNNABC, USA Today, Fox, NY TimesYahoo
Fox, CNN, BBCBBC, Foreign PolicyPolitico, Huffington PostC-Span, JSTOR NewsletterWall Street Journal, BBC, Economist, Christian Science Monitor, CNNABC News
Occasionally
Blogging Assignments
OBJECTIVE: Encourage development of analytical & writing skills
Submit a short (200-400 word) summary of your thoughts on the material covered that week.
Topics should be related to one or more of the discussion questions posted with the readings for that week.
Your discussion should be analytical and related to the objectives and themes of the course .
REQUIREMENT:
SUBMISSION: NLT 6:00 AM local time on the first class day of the next week via T-Square.
First Submission Due 6 AM, Wednesday January 21st
Blogging Assignments
Demonstrated understanding of material: Identification of key concept or themeThoughtful and thorough analysis Clear, concise writing Outside resources encouraged
MS Word file Double spaced, 1 – 1.25 inch margins 11-12 point font Title of the Blog as the first line
FORMAT:
CRITERIA:
Loose Ends
Realism - Liberalism
Rise and Fall of Empires
What is an empire?
Empire
A large political body that rules over territories outside its original borders
Consists of a central power or core territory whose inhabitants usually continue to form the dominant ethnic or national group in the entire system
and
an extensive periphery of dominated areas.
Empire involves political sovereignty or direct control by core over peripheries.
More recently, the term also includes informal control, influence, or hegemony.
Geostrategic Theories
The Heartland Theory1904 paper
"Who rules East Europe commands the Heartland; who rules the Heartland commands the World-Island;
who rules the World-Island controls the world."
Heartland Theory
Geostrategic Theories
The Heartland Theoryin 1904 paper
Seapower
(1890)
America’s greatness depends on “a merchant navy, which [can] carry American products to new markets across the ‘great highway’ of the high seas … and maintaining open lines of communications between the United States and its new markets.”
Power Tensor, 17 Jan 14
SeapowerTrade Routes & Choke Points
US Fleet Deployments
Seapower depends on access to support bases
The Rise and Fall of Empires
Empires define our world today
Four empires collapsed as a result of World War I:
Russian
German
Austro-Hungarian
Ottoman
The remnants of each have an impact on our world today
Rise of the British Empire
End