Current issue related to global trade

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Select a newspaper article that is less than one month old. The article MUST deal with a current issue related to global trade (e.g. protectionist policies, recent trade deals, child labor laws, etc.). Complete analysis of the article and follow the directions below in order to complete it. Submit your analysis to this Assignment.

MAKE SURE TO SITE YOUR ARTICLE AS WELL. I need to know when your article was published, what newspaper it is from, who wrote it, as well as the title of the article. .

Analyzing a newspaper or magazine article requires specific skills which few students acquire without being deliberately taught and practiced.

Requirements:

Your analysis should be written in essay form and should address ALL of the questions listed below. The article must also relate to a topic we have covered so far in the course. You must make a clear connection with the course content in your analysis.

Questions for analyzing the article:

  1. What event led to the writing of the article?
  2. What is the main idea of the article?
  3. Select several facts/arguments (3 if possible) which support the main idea.
  4. Does the author provide enough factual material to support his ideas (quotes witnesses, provides statistics, states his sources of information? Was he an eyewitness to events; or was the information obtained through a news service?
  5. Is the reportage, in your opinion, true, balanced or biased? Explain.
  6. Are different viewpoints presented? Is this article an editorial (author’s own ideas), is it informative, is it convincing, is it balanced?
  7. What do you think of the article and its point of view? Explain.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

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Consider parts of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Which elements seem universal? Which, if any, do not? If a common set is not feasible, how can international organizations identify and sanction rights violators?

Is a universal list of human rights that will be acceptable to all people in all societies possible? Can people in different countries agree on a common set of fundamental protections and guarantees for individuals?

The coronavirus crisis

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It has been a challenging time for Malaysian investors. The coronavirus crisis has taken a swipe at economic growth, sovereign debt is rising, and the political landscape is in flux. This follows then-prime minsiter Mahathir Mohamed’s snap resignation in February and a factional tug of war that has seen current PM Muhyiddin Yassin, a Malay nationalist, gain the upper hand to become prime minister after pulling out of the Pakatan Harapan coalition to form a new alliance.

(Malaysia is a parliamentary democracy with a federal constitutional monarch, the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, as head of state. This monarch is chosen for a five-year term from among their own number by the nine hereditary rulers of Peninsular Malaysia.)

At the same time the country is struggling with the impact of the virus causing global recession, exacerbated by delayed government policymaking, including the postponed decision on a proposed Kuala Lumpur-Singapore high-speed rail project now that the costs are an even bigger stumbling block.

The majority of political risk indicators have been lowered too, including information access/transparency, institutional risk and government stability.

 

Utilising the Malaysian example, analyse the Malaysian political system as well as the concept of political risk, delineating the various options available to investors in Malaysia in the above situation.

 

Autocratization and de-democratization

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Democratic backsliding is also used to refer to autocratization and de-democratization. Autocratization is used as an overarching concept to describe de-democratization or changes that decrease the democratic character of political regimes.   A basic component of this democratic decline and autocratization is the state-led weakening of political institutions.  The most vulnerable of these institutions are the democratic rules of elections. Luhrmann and Lindberg (2019) articulate their particular understanding of autocratization as the “de facto substantial decline of core institutional requirements for electoral democracy.”

 

Which countries are experiencing autocratization? What are the causes? What are the indicators? What are the consequences?

The Nuremberg trials

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The Nuremberg trials consisted of a four count indictment: conspiracy to wage wars of aggression, waging of aggressive war, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. Based on what you have read and seen of the Russian invasion of Ukraine this year,

(1) which of the four counts would you bring before a world court against the Army or President of the Russian Federation?, and (2) on which of the counts do you believe you could obtain a conviction? Why or why not?

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The United Nations Security Council

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The United Nations Security Council is by far the most powerful organ of the United Nations. For instance, under the United NationsCharter, it has the authority to authorize sanctions and the use of force against countries that threaten international peace and security (a power not held by any other organ within theUnited Nations or by any other organ/IGO in the world).

However, there are only 5 “permanent” members on the Security Council and 10 “non-permanent” members (despite the United Nations having 193 member states). Furthermore, only the 5 permanent members (China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States) have an “absolute veto” (i.e., the ability to block a decision by the Security Council without the ability of other countries to override it).

In general, do you think it would be helpful or harmful for international peace and security to reform the United Nations Security Council so that it no longer has “permanent members” or the permanent members no longer have an absolute veto? If so, why? If not, why not?

The Diversity of the Middle East region

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Pay attention to the diversity of the Middle East region—historically, politically, culturally, linguistically, religiously, and geographically.

 

  1. Provide four examples of diversity for each category—cultural, ethnic, religious, and political one for each category. When providing the four examples, indicate the specific map # you used and how they support your examples.
  2. For example, refer to any map that emphasizes ethnic differences (for example, Arabs, Persians (Iranians), Jews, or small splinter ethnic groups within states). Or another that highlights cultural differences like language usage, including dialects within languages. Yet another distinguishes religious differences, and finally, another determines political differences (i.e., sectarianism, political boundaries that seem to persist over time, or maps indicating the strategic location for purposes of military importance, trade, or oil reserves)?). Notice that some of these differences overlap and can serve as examples across the four categories.

Reference

https://www.vox.com/a/maps-explain-the-middle-east

Cheating on oil production quotas

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Saddam accused Kuwaitand the United Arab Emirates of complicity with the United States of cheating on oil production quotas. He blamed this overproduction for driving down the price of oil, causing the loss of billions of dollars to Iraq.

During this period, the million-manned armed forces along withaggressive research anddevelopment programs (including Iraq’s large nuclear development effort) were consuming enormous sums of money. Iraq’s 1990 military budget was $12.9 billion, or approximately $700 per citizen in a country where the average annual income was $1,950. By mid-1990,Iraq had only enough cash reserves for threemonths of imports and aninflation rate of 40 percent.

 

Iraq started the crisis with oneof the world’s larger armies,equipped with significant numbers of tanks, armored personnelcarriers, and artillery, some of which were state-of-the-art models. It had a sizable air force with many top-line fighters and fighter-bombers (F-1s, MiG-29s, and Su-24s) and a modern air defense command and control (C2) system.

They had developed excellent operational security anddeception. Iraqi ground forceshad more than 5,000 main battle tanks, 5,000 armored infantry vehicles, and 3,000 artillery pieceslarger than 100mm. The Iraqi military supply and transportation infrastructure was extensive and well-equipped,with ample supplies of ammunition, water, food, and fuels.

 

  • Invasion of Kuwait

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Being accused of driving under the influence

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In Arizona, your driver’s license can be suspended solely on being accused of driving under the influence. Kanye West was driving in Arizona, and was stopped on suspicion of DUI when he was not intoxicated (for some reason, Kanye acting like himself appeared to be under the influence of drugs when speaking with the officer) and had his license suspended.

The way a license is suspended in Arizona, you must first go to a hearing at the DMV where it will be decided if your license is suspended or not. Once you lose at a DMV hearing, you can appeal the decision to the County Court of Arizona. If you lose at the County Court of Arizona, you then appeal to the Supreme Court of Arizona.

Kanye, not wanting to waste time took his case immediately to the Supreme Court of Arizona, without first going to the DMV hearing. They refused to hear his case.

Please explain if the Supreme Court of Arizona can refused to hear his case. If they can refuse to hear his case, why can they do so?

Primary sources that show positive changes in Latin America

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Primary sources that show positive changes in Latin America. By doing this, you are showing that you know how to “corroborate” sources. Corroboration in this sense means to make a similar argument with similar primary sources. If the three sources you post don’t focus on the same example of positive change, they will not corroborate what you are trying to demonstrate.

Make sure you don’t just show happy things in each country. The primary sources must corroborate one another. For example, photos showing women voting in three separate countries would corroborate that women’s suffrage is respected in Latin America (or at least in those three countries).

A poor example would be showing kids smiling in various countries. Children smiling does not equate to a positive change. Googling images of any of the countries in Latin America should provide you with ample primary sources to fulfill this assignment.

Then you will write a paragraph explaining how the three or more primary sources you gather and post for this assignment “corroborate” each other.

An important part of understanding primary sources is to be able to source, corroborate, and contextualize. In this course, each time you were asked to analyze a primary source you were actually sourcing (analyzing the who, what, and why related to the source) and contextualizing (analyzing the “when” of the source, and identifying what was taking place in the world when that specific source was created).

Now you have another chance to practice “corroborating” (explaining the relationship between sources and how those relationships support a point). You will do so with the sources you found.