Lesson 5

History, Geopolitics and International Affairs

Opinion SurveyVSAK Scores

Opinion SurveyHow Well Informed Do You Feel You Are?

Opinion SurveyMajor Sources of News on Current Events

Daily Social MediaWashington Post, USA TodayCNN, Associated Press, MSNBCFNC, CNNABC, USA Today, Fox, NY TimesYahoo

Fox, CNN, BBCBBC, Foreign PolicyPolitico, Huffington PostC-Span, JSTOR NewsletterWall Street Journal, BBC, Economist, Christian Science Monitor, CNNABC News

Occasionally

Blogging Assignments

OBJECTIVE: Encourage development of analytical & writing skills

Submit a short (200-400 word) summary of your thoughts on the material covered that week.

Topics should be related to one or more of the discussion questions posted with the readings for that week.

Your discussion should be analytical and related to the objectives and themes of the course .

REQUIREMENT:

SUBMISSION: NLT 6:00 AM local time on the first class day of the next week via T-Square.

First Submission Due 6 AM, Wednesday January 21st

Blogging Assignments

Demonstrated understanding of material: Identification of key concept or themeThoughtful and thorough analysis Clear, concise writing Outside resources encouraged

MS Word file Double spaced, 1 – 1.25 inch margins 11-12 point font Title of the Blog as the first line

FORMAT:

CRITERIA:

Loose Ends

Realism - Liberalism

Rise and Fall of Empires

What is an empire?

Empire

A large political body that rules over territories outside its original borders

Consists of a central power or core territory whose inhabitants usually continue to form the dominant ethnic or national group in the entire system

and

an extensive periphery of dominated areas.

Empire involves political sovereignty or direct control by core over peripheries.

More recently, the term also includes informal control, influence, or hegemony.

Geostrategic Theories

The Heartland Theory1904 paper

"Who rules East Europe commands the Heartland; who rules the Heartland commands the World-Island;

who rules the World-Island controls the world."

Heartland Theory

Geostrategic Theories

The Heartland Theoryin 1904 paper

Seapower

(1890)

America’s greatness depends on “a merchant navy, which [can] carry American products to new markets across the ‘great highway’ of the high seas … and maintaining open lines of communications between the United States and its new markets.”

Power Tensor, 17 Jan 14

SeapowerTrade Routes & Choke Points

US Fleet Deployments

Seapower depends on access to support bases

The Rise and Fall of Empires

Empires define our world today

Four empires collapsed as a result of World War I:

Russian

German

Austro-Hungarian

Ottoman

The remnants of each have an impact on our world today

Rise of the British Empire

End