A way that the United States military can be used to support peace as well as prevent conflict involves nuclear weapons. Stiehm writes “One goal is nonproliferation. The United States has particularly focused on preventing Iran’s acquisition of such weapons. It has had to make peace with India’s and Pakistan’s programs and to accept the fact that North Korea has a limited arsenal. However, there […]

So far we have discussed matters of civil rights, civil liberties, public opinion and political participation. By now, I think you get the idea that politics and political behavior operate within institutions. We citizens interact with governmental institutions on a regular basis through the goods and service we utilize, the quality of our air, our streets, our parks etc.. Is there something that you personally care about? […]

Very few would argue with the claim that the President’s role as Commander-in-Chief is the greatest formal power that a president possesses. Yet, in the Constitution, only Congress has the authority to formally “declare war.” Presidents for the last 60-70 years have openly stated that they do not need Congressional authorization to use the military to pursue America’s interests on the global stage. As proof, […]

One of the most divisive and economically pressing questions in U.S. domestic policy over the last several decades has been healthcare. The United States spends twice as much in terms of Gross Domestic Product on healthcare as the next biggest spender in the advanced world, and yet our average lifespan is less than most of the countries on the list. The debate in the U.S. […]

Migration Profile: Writ.. a 3 page profile of an immigrant group. Students have freedom to choose a country and a group to analyze (i.e. Thai domestic workers in the UAE, or Mexican farmworkers in California, or Filipino nurses in NY, etc.). The profile must include as much statistical or ethnographic information as possible (how many, who are they, how long do they stay, how much […]

Library Research Using University Library resources   or  any other recourse such as Bloomberg, The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal  find an article related to the class discussion topics. Your task is to analyze the article. You should explain what the article was about and what you have learned from it.  Articles should also be current, defined as having been published between January […]

In this memo, you need to complete the following tasks: first, use THREE paragraphs to summarize the three chapters you are assigned to read. Then, choose ONE topic related to American soft power he discussed and examine how this concept has evolved since he wrote the book in 2002. To put it another way, has hisprediction/assessment remained accurate? Or is it wildly off-the-mark? In either […]

As described in Lecture Note 1, geography is a part of everyday life and the study of which ranges from how we design our cities to what lies on the ocean floor. One of the more important kinds of geography is political geography, which can involve everything from the creation of local zoning areas to borders between nations. In your opinion, which level of political […]

Some feel that when former President Donald Trump had his social media accounts shut down after the attack on the Capitol on January 6th it was a violation of his 1st Amendment rights of free speech and that his accounts should be restored. Others have asserted that since he, like every other user on a social media platform, agreed to a Terms of Service agreement […]

Discussion Board Question 6: After viewing the films An Inconvenient Truth and An Inconvenient Sequel do you think by 2050 there will be millions of involuntary ‘environmental immigrants’ because of rising oceans engulfing places like Miami and China and severe drought in places like central Africa? Should most nations enact stricter environmental policies now to stop climate change and loosen immigration restrictions, which is the complete […]