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INR2002
Schedule
Tom Byrnes
Section One
January13:
Read the chapter on Perceptions from the Byrnes text and answer questions. Make
sure that you have your student ID validated to use with
linccweb.
January 20:
Read the chapter on Nationalism and the article
Jihad v. McWorld By Benjamin R. Barber,
Choose
an editorial to evaluate for your base group.
January 27:
Read the
chapter on The Media in the Byrnes text and the article "Media
can start wars" by Bernardo V. Lopez, Business World April 11, 2007
and the article
"Michael Buerk, Servant of the Pentagon Propaganda
Machine" The Sharp Side, then answer questions.
February 3:
Read the chapter on Politics and Poverty in the Byrnes text and the
article
“America, Islam and the 9-11 War” Peter
Warren Singer, Current History, December 2006 and then answer questions
February 10:
Read
It's a Flat World, After All
Thomas L. Friedman April 3,
2005 New York Times Magazine,
then answer
questions. First Exam: February 10
Section Two
February 17:
Read the Chapters on the United Nations and the World Bank and then answer
questions.
February 24: Read the chapters on the
International Monetary Fund and the World Trade Organization from the Byrnes
text and then answer questions.
February 26: Complete draft of first
critical thinking evaluation is due in WebCT
March 3: Read
the article
The World Trade
Organization As A Structure of Liberty
by John O. McGinnis Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy , 01934872 Fall
2004 Vol. 28, Issue 1, and the chapter on the European Union from the text and
then answer questions.
March 17:
Read the chapter on Trade Blocs the article
NAFTA’s Economic Impact Council on Foreign Relations,
March 18, 2008 and the chapter on Russia then answer questions
Final Withdrawal deadline:
March 25
March 24: Read
the articles
Flight From
Freedom: What Russians Think and Want download a Word copy
here.
by Richard Pipes
Council on
Foreign Relations, Inc. Foreign Affairs May 2004 - June 2004,
Verdict in
Russian Courts: Guilty Until Proven Guilty By Steven Lee
Meyers, New York Times, June 20, 2004 and the editorial
A Decade of Putinism: by Christopher
Walker, Wall Street Journal, 8-18-09
Second Exam:
March 24
Section Three
March 31: Read
the chapter on India, then read
Behind the Mumbai Massacre: India's Muslims in Crisis
, and answer the questions.
April 7:
Read the chapter on Japan from the Byrnes text and
Japan's criminal justice system
and
The death
penalty in Japan The wheels start to wobble
on Japan's judicial juggernaut
Economist,
00130613, 3/29/2008, Vol. 386, Issue 8573.
April 14: Read
the chapter on Nigeria and the articles
Nigeria:
Chronicle of a Dying State by Ike Okonta Current History,
May 2005 and
Nigeria
Confronts Obasanjo's Legacy by Richard Joseph and Darren Kew in
Current History, April 2008 then answer questions
April 21: Read
the chapter on Brazil from the Byrnes text and
Lifting the Veil: Understanding the Roots of Islamic
Militancy by Henry
Munson, Harvard International Review
Religion, Vol. 25 (4) - Winter 2004 (Please note that there are six
pages to this article) then answer questions.
April 28:
Final Exam:
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