Category: International affairs / relations

Take-Home Final
In a total of approximately 2,000–3,000 words (for UHP students 2,500–3,500 words) of writing, please answer the following question.
Question. Imagine that you have become a top advisor to President Joe Biden. Your assignment is to recommend American foreign economic policy. You are asked to take stock of the history and theories of international political economy in developing recommendations that are both popular (supported by public) and institutionally feasible (supported through the decision-making process) in the context of American democratic politics. Also, your recommendations will have to serve for the United States to benefit from the current global economy. In other words, they will have to be optimal for economy and security of the United States.
Be sure to offer concrete examples and illustrations to support your arguments wherever possible, referring to course materials such as the readings, notes you have taken, and the film assigned so far in this class.
There are many ways you can answer this question, but no matter how you answer it, your discussion needs to include three of the following points: 
Why should the United States open or restrict its borders for migration? How would you answer this question from the economic aspects? How would you answer this question from other aspects (such as culture, rights, and security)? Where does the United States go as the nation of immigrants?
How have global value chains, or what Baldwin calls the New Globalization, changed trade politics of U.S.-China economic relations? In other words, how has the New Globalization changed the politics of U.S.-China trade war?
According to Alden, how did Americans get left behind in the global economy? In other words, how has the United States failed to adjust to growing global economic competition? What should the United States do to confront the competition? Why have the measures not worked and what should be done?
How and why does the wealth that the endowment of oil should bring to the nation turn out to be a curse for the development of the nation? What should the United States do to promote a solution to the oil curse?
Cullenward and Victor suggest a number of obstacles that make it hard to address the challenge of climate change. What are the main obstacles, and what, if anything, do you think should be done to promote a solution to this problem? Particularly, what should the United States do?
What is the East Asian COVID-19 paradox? During the pandemic, why has global governance failed in response to COVID-19 shocks while East Asian economic linkages have been resilient? What lessons can the United States learn from East Asian response to the COVID-19 pandemic?
In writing this essay, you should remember that a good essay has several features:
a) Make sure that your essay has:
a logical structure, including introduction, body, and conclusion,
a summary statement of your argument, which should appear in the introductory paragraph, and
clear, direct sentences and coherent paragraphs.
b) Your essay should make a clear, coherent argument. While you have to discuss several issues and events, your treatment of each issue and event should support the overall argument. Your argument should be clearly stated in the first paragraph.
c) When you have to summarize the argument that an author has made in the reading, we do not want a blow-by-blow (e.g., “first he says this, then he says that…”) or extensive direct quotations from the author. Rather, we want you to put the author’s main argument in your own words.
d) You should support your claims by evidence. An effective analysis will juxtapose your claims with passages from relevant readings and lectures. Avoid unsupported assertions.
Notes:
This exam is due on Tuesday, May 7, 9:30pm on Canvas. Exams submitted after that time will be subject to penalties. There will be no extensions granted, except in the most serious cases (e.g., serious illness, death in the family). Any such extensions must be requested before the due date.
You are expected to rely on the readings and the film as well as your notes from lectures. The most effective answers will combine course material from a variety of sources. There is no need to do outside reading or to have a bibliography. If you wish to quote directly from a lecture, the citation should be: (Lecture, Date). When citing from a reading, use short-form citations. For example:
McDonald argues that “large quantities of public property create political flexibility for governments wishing to consolidate their regime by enabling them to either raise the opportunity costs to their coalition members for supporting an opposition candidate or by co-opting potential opposition forces” (McDonald, p. 57). 
The Stolper Samuelson theorem shows who benefit from free trade and who suffer from free trade (Rogowski, pp. 1122–1123). 
Because you have plenty of time to complete this exam, we expect that spelling, grammar and punctuation will all conform to standard practice. Be sure to proofread your work!

The purpose of this paper is to allow you to apply the
theories and insights of the course to the experiences of a developing country
in the current global economy, and at the same time to learn something about a
country you did not previously know well. You may pick any country you wish to
study that is not currently a member of the OECD, except Argentina (because I
use it as an example below) and China (because we’ve talked about it a fair bit
in class). Note that Israel, Mexico, South Korea, and a number of Central
European countries are OECD members (see www.oecd.org
for a list) and thus do not qualify (for exceptions to this rule, please see
me).
Your task is to analyze and make an argument about one
aspect of the recent international economic policy choices of the government of
your chosen country. (Recent here means since the turn of the century or,
preferably, the last decade or so.) Possible policy areas include (but are not
limited to) development policy, trade policy, policy regarding capital flows
and foreign direct investment, currency policy, monetary policy more generally,
and migration. It is best to stick to a single policy area, to avoid
encountering problems trying to provide both data and analysis in the 10-12
pages you should aim to write.
The crucial challenge is to go beyond merely describing what
a particular government did. Make an argument
analyzing the reasons for the government’s choices and explaining and
discussing the outcomes (were they different than the government intended /
possibly unsustainable / counterproductive in the long run, etc.?) Factors to
consider include: different domestic political and economic interest groups,
international institutions such as the IMF or the WTO, international economic
interests (foreign investors, lenders, MNCs., etc.), interactions between
different policies (such as the Mundell-Fleming conditions), and so on.
For example, say you wish to address Argentina’s currency
politics at the turn of the century. You would first describe (briefly! just
the relevant basics) the currency board system as it was originally
implemented. Then analyze why this was thought to be the best policy option at
the time. Discuss whether it performed as expected (and why it did or did not
do so), why the government clung to it even in the face of economic recession,
and finally why it became impossible to maintain the system. Finally, assess
whether (and to whom) a currency board policy might be appealing today.
Notes
1. One or more (but at least 1!)
sources you use must be from an academic journal or a book. This is to
make sure you take advantage of some sources that go deeper than the
superficial treatment you’re likely to find in normal online and journalistic
sources.
2.           Anything
that is not common knowledge among your peers (classmates) requires citation.
3.           Be sure not just to make an argument,
but also to consider potential counter-arguments.
4.           Policies do not just happen. They are implemented for a
reason. Do not simply describe policies (and their outcomes) without discussing
why they were implemented. What political forces supported the policies, and
what forces opposed them? What factors explain the particular form a policy
took?
5.           While
Wikipedia is a helpful starting point, it is not acceptable as a source
to cite. 
Make sure you proofread and
spell-check your paper. One or two spelling mistakes are fine, but egregious
and consistent errors will be factored into your grade. Print the paper
double-spaced, with reasonable margins, so I can make comments easily. Your paper
should be 10 to 12 pages in length; a page or two longer is OK if you think it
is necessary for your argument; less is unlikely to give you enough space to
make a successful argument.

Instruction
This scrapbook is a compilation of your learnings over 7 weeks of readings and discussion on the
Global Challenge of Prosperity. Every week you will need to submit a Question Quotation an Image,
or something Missing related to the weekly topical areas the night before the seminar. This can be
anything you feel encapsulates your learning: something you are unsure about, an idea that came to
you, something that allows you to connect the readings with a real-life situation, concerns you have
about a viewpoint that is missing. You have the luxury of making that decision amongst the four
options. Each quote, quotation, image, or missing item should be accompanied by a 150–200-word
piece (NO +/-10% RULE) reflecting how your selection links to the core concepts for that week. The
final submission will have 7 entries compiled into a book.
The grading will be based on completeness of scrapbook and timeliness of weekly submissions:
− Did you make an effort to think reflectively each week about the readings and plenary
sessions?
− Did you submit each week on time?
− Are there seven entries?
− Did you attempt to try each of the options (so not just images each week, but attempt the range of options)?
− Did you write a maximum 200-word statement for each week?
This is meant to get you to reflect on one key takeaway from the readings. It is flexible and meant to
be a short reflective exercise. You can write up to 200 words and less than 100 words.
Here is an example of something acceptable:
Assigned Readings:
-Achiume, Tendayi (2019) Migration As Decolonization. 71 Stanford Law Review
-Nutmeg’s Curse (chapters 15-16)
QQIM submission: Missing- “What I find missing from Achiume’s article is what happens to
countries that were not colonized? Should they still have this relationship? Ghosh writes about
migration in a similar idea with circular migration. What would it take to get to a globally accepted
practice of circular migration?”
This example is 47 words. And demonstrates that you have read both Ghosh and Achiume and
thought about how the authors have explained their ideas about migration.
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For this assignment, you are “ONLY” doing the week 5’s QQIM assignment.
The Core concept of the week is “GAME-CHANGERS IN THE PURSUIT OF PROSEPRITY I-Ageing and Prosperity”
The emergence and spread of the COVID-19 virus prove to be the ultimate ‘game changer’ globally,
as economies and borders closed and governments around the world scrambled to deal with the tri-
fold health, economic and social crises that accompanied its spread. Through the failure of public
health as a global public good, the virus poses a significant development challenge for all countries,
accentuating the case for a global, rather than international development paradigm (Oldekop et al. 2020).
Population ageing is an inevitable consequence of the declines in fertility and increases in longevity
that characterize the demographic transition and is usually associated with social and economic
development. This week we look at several dimensions of health as game changers in prosperity. We
examine the factors that contribute to these game changers and the (economic) rationale for
interventions based on market failures, with focus on public goods or large social externalities.
The core reading for this week is: 
– The Routledge Handbook of Global Development Chapter 40: Health, illness, and development
– The Routledge Handbook of Global Development Chapter 48: Children, Youth and Development
And the readings for seminar are attached 
– Rutagumirwa, Sylivia Karen, and Ajay Bailey. “It’s all about being a woman”: Intersections of multiple (dis) advantages experienced by older women in Tanzania.” Journal of aging studies 61 (2022): 101021.
– The Routledge Handbook of Global Development Chapter 49: Aging and Development
Background videos
– https://youtu.be/hJCr5WJapm8 cost of ageing
– https://youtu.be/5vIrL7fiNgw Ageing campaign
Do the readings first, and then in 150-200 words,,
Come up with a Question, or Quotation, or an Image, or something Missing (choose only one!) related to the weekly topical areas the night before the seminar. This can be anything you feel encapsulates your learning: something you are unsure about, an idea that came to you, something that allows you to connect the readings with a real-life situation, concerns you have about a viewpoint that is missing. You have the luxury of making that decision amongst the four options. Each quote, quotation, image, or missing item should be accompanied by a 150–200-word piece (NO +/-10% RULE) reflecting how your selection links to the core concepts for that week. 
For this week, please choose “IMAGE” for QQIM Scrapbook.
– find a relevant image
– explain why the image is relavant/connected to the reading for this week’s seminar/core topic

10,000 words dissertation about education system in the UK and children from deprived bacground.
comparative analysis about education between Italy,Egypt and UK.
Use of 50 academic sources only books, peer reviewed journals, online academic websites.
Harvard reference, in text citations and bibliography. no plagiarism or similarity