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Donald Trump admires Strongmen leaders around the world from Duterte in the Philipines, to Jair Bolsanaro in Brazil and Vladimir Putin in Russia. What do features do all these authoritarian regimes share? Does Donald Trump fit this pattern or not? What is the profile of the voters who support this kind of authoritarian politics? How did the Trump/Putin partnership work to influence the 2016 election. Can Trump work a permanent change in the American political system, or will the opposition in the Federal Bureaucracy, the Courts and the Press bring him down? How could Donald Trump lose the popular vote in the 2020 election, but still hang on to power in a second term.
These United States have a federal system where governmental powers are divided between the State and Federal governments. What powers usually belong to the states, which one belong exclusively to the Federal authorities and which are concurrent powers are shared? If you look at how we are responding to the coronavirus global pandemic, which level of government has decided how we should respond? How much of a patchwork of different policies have emerged across the different states? What role has the federal government under President Trump played? What role should it play? Would we have been better off with a Unitary state?
What do we mean by globalization? Is this term relevant mainly to migration of people, jobs, and industry, or does it have a cultural dimension as well? What are some of the impacts on national societies? How does economic globalization threaten the power of the nation state? How does the neo liberal globalization of the early 21st century differ from liberal capitalism of the 19th under British hegemony? How does it differ from the national state capitalisms of the short twentieth century? What kind of transnational actors benefit the most from periods of liberal capitalism? Which approach realist, liberal or marxist – explains it best?
What do we mean by a Balance of power in a multipolar system? Why did it fail to contain the French State when they confronted it with the democratic notion of popular sovereignty? Why was Napoleonic France a revolutionary power in the European State System? Which power ultimately replaced it as the problem state in 19th century Europe? And in 20th century Europe? How can the security dilemmacreated by balance of power diplomacy help us to understand the outbreak of World War One? How does the current crisis of the Russian invasion of Eastern Ukraine and annexation of Crimea resemble earlier security dilemmas and threaten an escalation of tensions between the NATO/EU member states and Putin’s Russia? Or Xi’s China in the South China Sea?
What was the Treaty of Westphalia? In what ways did it define the European concept of state sovereignty How many political units did Europe have before 1500? How many did it have by 1800? How can we explain this radical reduction in the number of states in Europe? Which modern international relations theory reflect this historical episode of inter-state anarchy, similar that of the Italian state system of the Renaissance or the classic Greek city states of the Hellenic era?
What do we mean by a universal welfare state? Whom does it benefit? Whom does it cover? How is the American version of welfare much more limited than the welfare states of Canada or Western Europe? How might that change under the (hyptothetical) leadership of Senator Bernie Saunders? Where would you locate him on the American political spectrum? Would we become more like France or Sweden? Why would that be a bad thing? Or facing the current health cornovirus crisis, an absolutely necessary set of reforms.What would they include?
According to Max Weber one major feature distinguished the power of the Nation State from other social institutions. What is it? How does Webers definition helps up understand the role of warfare and revolutions in military technology in shaping first the European and later the world state system? Why does Christian Parenti think that Weber can help us understand state failure in the fourth world? What factors contribute to social breakdown and state failure in East Africa? What are some recent examples of this process of catastrophic convergence at work in Horn of Africa, Central America or the Middle East?
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