Global Politics - Case Studies

USA vs China

• power

• who is more powerful

• army, economy, diplomacy, academic

Monarchy

• legitimacy

• based on popularity, respect of rights, foreign relations

Secret Services

• legitimacy

• counterterrorism + protect national security

• Victor Rocha case in the US

West Papua

• legitmacy

• who owns the land? the strongest?

Refugees in Europe

• sovereignty

• Should state be sovereign to better solve refugee issues ?

• EU coordination : unified response, coordinated policies

• State sovereignity : autonomy, specific answer (resources management)

International organizations - Mercosur

-        Economic and political interdependence

-        Advantages : free-trade zone + more impact on the international stage

-        Inconvenients : individualist thinking + inequal repartition of economic power (Brazil>>)

-        Interdepende already + io creates more (more vulnerable to crisis)

Child rights in Ivory Coast

• human rights

Human trafficking in the UK

• human rights violations

• developed country benefiting from illegal immigrants

New Caledonia

• development

• How can a colonized country develop?

Higher education, maritime sector, international relations (China), justice, management of resources (nickel), culture (collective economy)

Gap of well-being - Monaco and India

• globalization, well-being, poverty

North vs South

• economic and environmental sustainability

• prosperous and powerful North vs obedient South under the rules of the North

  this limits their potential and development (economic)

• as economies grow, the environment degrades: westernization with high waste consumption and high consumption (by the North)

  the North can impose environmental to the South though it is not their priority

Empowerment of women

• social sustainability

• globalization questions traditional gender roles (masculinity = privilege)

• issues such as literacy, migration, sexual violence still have different impact on men and women because of different cultural norms

• women can empower by allowing them to positions of power and changing cultural expectations and stereotypes

Space expedition: are the poorest left behind?

Concept of universal goods (what will benefit everyone)

How do space expeditions benefit the economy?

• in advertising business + technological/industrial sector

• by creating jobs (for equipment, spaceships, ads) + technological advancement (new equipment, spaceships)

examples of satellites that are essential for our daily lives (Google Maps, GPS)

developed countries focus on progress and technological advancements which benefit their economy

Wouldn’t treating poverty strengthen countries’ poverty as much as technological progress? Isn’t it a form of progress?

BUT this would benefit developing countries and not developed ones?