The War Room The year is 1956. The Cold War between the United States and Soviet Union is a reality. The world stands on the brink of nuclear annihilation as two international crises converge on the stage of history. You learned about the first of these crises, the Suez Crisis, last week. Recall that France, Great Britain, and Israel invaded the Canal Zone in a […]

The Suez Crisis Egypt is a country situated in a strategic location because of a vital waterway that was constructed in the late 19th Century called the Suez Canal. Throughout most of the 19th and 20th Centuries Egypt was a British colonial outpost. The Suez canal was a joint British-French commercial construction project and its significance as a vital international waterway still holds true, as […]

Brainstorm various scenarios that also exemplify the tragedy of the commons problem. One of the scenarios that I brainstormed concerning the tragedy of the commons would be The Stag Hunt and Social Choice. According to our textbook “The Stag Hunt demonstrates how the interdependence of actions and choices affects collective efforts to attain a goal, such as the preservation of the commons” Van Belle, D. […]

  Eastern  European countries dependency on Russia’s natural gas would be notable  since the turn of century making Russia a 31% exporter of oil to the  world. After World War II, and the burning of the Baku oil fields in the  early 1900s due to protests, Russia realized by the 1950s that their  mass production of oil, and low price strategies they could be a […]

please read the attached document which covers how to write a political science essay.  Please research and write a 2 page/1000 word paper on any topic we have covered in this course that pertains to state and local government.  It doesn’t have to be Florida-centric, and, just like your midterm project, it can be on a broad topic like:  climate change, immigration, abortion, same-sex marriage, […]

Question1 Marks: 1 Public Opinion has no precise, universally agreed-on definition. However, according to Bernard Hennessy, public opinion is simply ______________________ expressed by a significant number of persons on an issue of general importance. Choose one answer.    a. Surveys    b. the aggregate of views men hold that affect the community    c. the complex of preferences    d. what the government decides the […]

   Final Exam Study Guide POS368 Ethics and Human Rights Fall 2017  The following questions constitute the bank of 16 questions from which I will draw 10 questions for the final exam. **NB 6 of these questions will not appear as options on the exam.** In the test you will be required to answer two of the questions. Therefore, to guarantee that questions you study […]

  Assignment 2: American Constitution Following the Revolutionary War and separation from England, the need for a new government was clear. A group of men, who became known as the “nation’s founders” or Founding Fathers, developed a new government based on principles and beliefs they knew through their experiences, readings, and study. The Founding Fathers had a great deal in common with each other, including […]

  Assignment 3: Bill of Rights When the Constitution was completed in the summer of 1787, approval by representatives from nine of the thirteen states was needed for it to become the nation’s law. The issue of individual rights was managed—though this, too, created conflict among the Framers—with the addition of the Bill of Rights. Change was written into the supreme law of the land; […]

Issue ownership is the notion that parties strategically focus on and represent certain issues in order to do well with voters. http://themonkeycage.org/2009/06/issue_ownership_rethinking_som/ What is your reaction to this week’s reading on issue ownership and the information contained in the link above? What issues do the Democratic and Republican Parties “own” today? In what ways have they lost ground or experienced recent “trespassing” of these issues? […]