AP Comparative Politics Global Awareness IU CO I100

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AP Comparative PoliticsGlobal AwarenessIU CO
I100

• Attilia Landini Gogel

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Credentials

• Foreign Language studies in Italy
• European Career
• MA 75

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The Structure

• Exchange
• Interruptions
• Questions
• Feed back
• Learning

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The Course

• My Background
• Foreign languages
• Passion for learning, traveling, world affairs

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Signature s Mission Statement

• to meet the needs of self-motivated learners
  in a progressive environment driven by global
  concerns. We emphasize rigor and excellence in
  academics, the arts, and integrated
  technologies.
• WWW.SIGNATURE.EDU

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Building Stones

• Indiana University International Studies Summer
  Institute 1997 1999-2004
  
• http//www.indiana.edu/global/institute.htm
• Choices Program
• Brown University
• http//www.choices.edu/capitol_forum/
• AP Comparative Politics
• http//www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/ap/su
  b_compgov.html?compgovpol
  

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IU Center for the Study of Global Change ISSI
http//www.indiana.edu/global/institute.htm

• Globalization and its ensuing Issues
• Population/Food Security
• Conflict and its resolution
• Environment
• Trade

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CHOICES for the 21st CenturyWatson Institute for
International Studies at Brown University
http//www.choices.edu/capitol_forum/

• Globalization and its ensuing issues
• Immigration (Population/Food Security)
• Terrorism/WMD (Conflict and its resolution)
• Environment
• Trade

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AP Comparative Politicshttp//www.collegeboard.co
m/student/testing/ap/sub_compgov.html?compgovpol

• Briefing Papers
• Democratization
• Globalization
• Mexico
• Nigeria
• Iran

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The Result Unit 1 (9 weeks)

• Conflict and its Resolution
• From Ethnic to National Identity
• Is identity, or the lack of it, the source of
  conflict?
  
• Case study 1 Nigeria, South Africa
• How do social identities such as Ethnicity,
  Nationalism, and Gender influence the economic
  growth of a newly autonomous state and the
  prospects for democratic development?
• Case study 2 Rwanda, Sudan
• Who should stop genocide?
• From Religious to National Identity
• Case study 3 Lebanon, Iran
• How do perspectives of Citizenship and
  Patriotism originate? How do political attitudes
  and political ideologies influence these
  perspectives?

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Nigeria, South Africa

• GHW.4.5 Analyze and assess ways that
  colonialism and imperialism have persisted
  and continue to evolve in the contemporary
  world.
• GHW.9.4 Distinguish and assess the human and
  physical factors associated with the spread of
  selected epidemics over time and describe the
  impact of this diffusion on countries and
  regions. Propose strategies for limiting the
  spread of diseases.

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Rwanda, Sudan

• GHW.4.3 Identify and compare the main causes,
  players, and events of imperialism during
  different time periods. Use a series of
  political maps to examine the global extent of
  imperialism.

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Lebanon, Iran

• GHW.2.2 Differentiate among selected countries in
  terms of how their identities, cultural and
  physical environments and forms of government
  are affected by world religions.
• GHW.2.4 Analyze and assess the rise of
  fundamentalist movements in all the worlds
  major religions during contemporary times
  (1980present) and describe the relationships
  between religious fundamentalism and the
  secularism and modernism associated with the
  Western tradition.
• GHW.6.1 Detect the causes and events of political
  revolutions in two distinct regions of the
  world and use maps, timelines, and/or other
  graphic representations to document the spread
  of political ideas that resulted from those
  events to other regions of the world. (Region 1)

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Unit 2
The ways of Democratization

• How does authoritarianism achieve legitimacy? How
  do personal, military, and one party rule differ
  on the way to Quasi-Democracies
  
• Case study 1 Russia, China
• Why is the Chinese Communist Party able to
  evolve and survive while in the former Soviet
  Union the party collapsed with the whole system?
  
• Case study 2 India, Sri Lanka
• How do modernization and advanced technology
  impact the transformation of a regime?
  

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Russia, China

• GHW.3.1 Map the distribution of the worlds human
  population for different time periods. Analyze
  changes in population characteristics and
  population density in specific regions.
• GHW.6.1 Detect the causes and events of political
  revolutions in two distinct regions of the
  world and use maps, timelines, and/or other
  graphic representations to document the spread
  of political ideas that resulted from those
  events to other regions of the world. (Region
  2)
• GHW.3.4 Give examples of and evaluate how the
  physical and human environments in different
  regions have changed over time due to
  significant population growth or decline.

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India, Sri Lanka

• GHW.2.1 Map the spread over time of world
  religions from their points of origin and
  identify those that exhibit a high degree of
  local and/or international concentration.
• GHW.2.4 Analyze and assess the rise of
  fundamentalist movements in all the worlds
  major religions during contemporary times
  (1980present) and describe the relationships
  between religious fundamentalism and the
  secularism and modernism associated with the
  Western tradition.
• GHW.3.1 Map the distribution of the worlds human
  population for different time periods. Analyze
  changes in population characteristics and
  population density in specific regions.

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Unit 3Imperialism, Colonialism, and
International Trade exporting the State

• Why do some countries succeed in dispersing
  power among the people earlier than other
  societies where power remains concentrated in the
  hands of elites? What role do cultural values
  and economic development play in these outcomes?
  
• Case study 1 Great Britain, Japan
• Which aspects do these two advanced democracy
  have in common? Do the British and Japanese
  systems fulfill the democratic criteria?
  
• Case study 2 Afghanistan, Iraq
• Does authoritarian rule derive its political
  control from economic and social issues or just
  from violence, surveillance, cooptation, and
  personality cult? Should former imperial power
  support the development of a civil society and
  aid to promote economic prosperity?
• Case study 3 European Union
• Nationalism, Liberalism, Social Democracy,
  Communism, and Mercantilism how do these
  creations of European thought shape the 2006
  reality? Can the post-industrial society end the
  welfare state and ignore the plight of the weak?
  

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Great Britain, Japan

• GHW.4.3 Identify and compare the main causes,
  players, and events of imperialism during
  different time periods. Use a series of
  political maps to examine the global extent of
  imperialism.
• GHW.6.2 Prepare maps, timelines, and/or other
  graphic representations showing the origin
  and spread of specific innovations. Assess the
  impact of these innovations on the human and
  physical environments of the regions to which
  they spread.
• GHW.10.4 Investigate and assess the impact of
  imperialistic policies on the formation of new
  countries in various regions of the world.

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Afghanistan, Iraq

• GHW.7.1 Recognize that conflict and cooperation
  among groups of people occur for a variety of
  reasons including nationalist, racial, ethnic,
  religious, economic, and resource concerns that
  generally involve agreements and disagreements
  related to territory on Earths surface.
• GHW.10.3 Evaluate and predict the successes and
  failure of democratic reform movements in
  challenging authoritarian or despotic regimes
  in different countries.
• GHW.10.4 Investigate and assess the impact of
  imperialistic policies on the formation of new
  countries in various regions of the world.
  

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European Union, Soviet Block

• GHW.3.2 Identify the push-pull factors that
  resulted in the migration of human population
  over time and detect changes in these factors
  
• GHW.6.1 Detect the causes and events of political
  revolutions in two distinct regions of the world
  and use maps, timelines, and/or other graphic
  representations to document the spread of
  political ideas that resulted from those events
  to other regions of the world. (Region 3)
• GHW.7.4 Prepare maps, timelines, and/or other
  graphic representations to trace the development
  and geographic extent of a variety of regional
  and global cooperative organizations for
  different time periods. Describe why each was
  established. Assess their success or lack of
  success, consequences for citizens, and the role
  of particular countries in achieving the goals
  the organizations were established to
  accomplish. (UN, NAFTA, WTO, WHO, EU, )World
  Bank, IMF.
• GHW.10.6 Analyze the human and physical
  geographic forces that either bind, unite
  (centripetal forces) or divide (centrifugal
  forces) a country or countries. Predict the
  impact of these forces on the future of these
  countries. Propose strategies that countries can
  use to overcome the impact of centrifugal forces.

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Unit 4Environmental Issues as Human Rightthe
challenge of post imperialism

• Will sustainability be achievable without the
  direct and active contribution of these segments
  which represent over 50 of the population? Which
  obligation does the state/society have toward the
  unrepresented like women and minorities?
• Case study 1 Mexico, Columbia
• How do these two states respond to the challenges
  of Post-Imperialism?
  
• Can state capacity be built or does it have to
  evolve from internal force?
  
• Case study 2 Brazil, Chile
• How are the weaker strata of the population
  paying for a
  
• world with too many people and too few resources?
  
  

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Mexico, Columbia

• GHW.3.2 Identify the push-pull factors that
  resulted in the migration of human population
  over time and detect changes in these factors
  
• GHW.5.2 Describe, using maps, timelines, and/or
  other graphic presentations, the worldwide trend
  toward urbanization. Assess the impact of
  factors such as locational advantages and
  disadvantages, changing transportation
  technologies, population growth, changing
  agricultural production, and the demands of
  industry on this trend.
• GHW.7.1 Recognize that conflict and cooperation
  among groups of people occur for a variety of
  reasons including nationalist, racial, ethnic,
  religious, economic, and resource concerns that
  generally involve agreements and disagreements
  related to territory on Earths surface.
• GHW.7.2 Analyze the physical and human factors
  involved in conflicts and violence related to
  nationalist, racial, ethnic, religious, economic,
  and/or resource issues in various parts of the
  world, over time. Assess the human and physical
  environmental consequences of the conflicts
  identified for study. Propose solutions to
  conflicts that are still ongoing.
• GHW.11.5 Analyze the impact of tourism on the
  physical and human environments of selected
  world regions. Predict the environmental impact
  of a continued growth in tourism in these regions.

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Brazil, Chile

• GHW.7.3 Analyze and explain why some countries
  achieved independence peacefully through legal
  means and others achieved independence as a
  consequence of armed struggles or wars.
• GHW.8.3 Detect how the physical and human
  environments have been altered in selected
  countries due to trade, commerce, and
  industrialization. Propose strategies for
  controlling the impact of these forces on the
  environments affected.

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Required Reading
GHW.2.3 Compare and contrast different religions
in terms of perspectives on the environment and
attitudes toward resource use, both today and
in the past. GHW.12.1 Analyze global climat
e change (sometimes called global warming) an
d assess the validity of this idea, the variabl
e climate changes it forecasts for different pa
rts of Earth, and the implications of these cha
nges for humans (political, economic, and healt
h and welfare.) GHW.12.2 Explain the concepts
of linear and exponential growth. Apply these c
oncepts to geographical themes and analyze the
consequences of various human responses to thes
e trends.
ISBN 0553375407 Bantam (1995) 272 pages
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Required Reading
GHW.3.3 Analyze the changes in population
characteristics and physical and human
environments that resulted from the migration
of peoples within, between, and
among world regions GHW.7.1 Recognize that con
flict and cooperation among groups of people oc
cur for a variety of reasons including national
ist, racial, ethnic, religious, economic, and
resource concerns that generally involve agreem
ents and disagreements related to territory
on Earths surface. GHW.8.2 Prepare graphic re
presentations, such as maps, tables, and timeli
nes, to describe the global movement of goods
and services between and among countries and
world regions over time. Analyze and assess the
patterns and networks of economic interdepende
nce or lack of interdependence that result.
ISBN 0374292795 Farrar, Straus and Giroux (200
6)
608 pages
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Required Reading
Essentials of Comparative Politics
Patrick ONeil
GHW.10.1 Differentiate between a state (country)
and a nation, specifically focusing on the conc
epts of territorial control and self-determinat
ion of internal and foreign affairs. Analyze
the relationship between nations and
the states in which they lie.
GHW.10.3 Evaluate and predict the successes and
failure of democratic reform movements in ch
allenging authoritarian or despotic regimes
in different countries.
ISBN 0393976548 W. W. Norton Company (2003)

322 pages
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Required Reading
GHW.1.3 Analyze agricultural hearths and
exchanges of crops among regions. Evaluate the
impact of agriculture on the subsequent develop
ment of culture hearths in various regions of t
he world. GHW.7.4 Prepare maps, timelines, and/
or other graphic representations to trace the d
evelopment and geographic extent of a variety o
f regional and global cooperative organizations
for different time periods. Describe why each
was established. Assess their success or lack o
f success, consequences for citizens, and the r
ole of particular countries in
achieving the goals the organizations were
established to accomplish. (UN, NAFTA, WTO,
WHO, EU, World Bank, IMF) GHW.9.2 Identify re
gional resource issues that may
impair sustainability, economic expansion,
and/or diversification. Assess the impact of
these issues on the physical and human environm
ents of specific regions. Propose strategies fo
r dealing with regional resources issues
ISBN 1594200459 Penguin Press (2005) 416 pages

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Required Reading
GHW.7.4 Prepare maps, timelines, and/or other
graphic representations to trace the developmen
t and geographic extent of a variety of regiona
l and global cooperative organizations for diff
erent time periods. Describe why each was estab
lished. Assess their success or lack of success
, consequences for citizens, and the role of pa
rticular countries in achieving the goals the o
rganizations were established to accomplish.
(UN, NAFTA, WTO, WHO, EU, World Bank, IMF)
GHW.10.2 Analyze the formation of states (coun
tries) in selected regions and identify and app
raise the contribution of factors, such as nati
onalism, in their formation.
ISBN 0393324877 W. W. Norton Company (2004
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304 pages
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• profoundly inspiring

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AP Literature

• The intimate, human aspect
• India God of Small Things
• Sri Lanka Running in the Family
• Nigeria Things Fall Apart