1. Lesson 5 History, Geopolitics and International Affairs

2. Opinion Survey VSAK Scores

3. Opinion Survey How Well Informed Do You Feel You Are?

4. Opinion Survey Major Sources of News on Current Events Daily Social Media Washington Post, USA Today CNN, Associated Press, MSNBC FNC, CNN ABC, USA Today, Fox, NY Times Yahoo Fox, CNN, BBC BBC, Foreign Policy Politico, Huffington Post C-Span, JSTOR Newsletter Wall Street Journal, BBC, Economist, Christian Science Monitor, CNN ABC News Occasionally

5. 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

6. Blogging Assignments Demonstrated understanding of material:  Identification of key concept or theme  Thoughtful 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:

7. Loose Ends

8. Realism - Liberalism

9. Rise and Fall of Empires What is an empire?

10. 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.

11. Geostrategic Theories The Heartland Theory 1904 paper "Who rules East Europe commands the Heartland; who rules the Heartland commands the World-Island; who rules the World-Island controls the world."

12. Heartland Theory

13. Geostrategic Theories The Heartland Theory in 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.”

14. Power Tensor, 17 Jan 14

15. Seapower Trade Routes & Choke Points

16. US Fleet Deployments Seapower depends on access to support bases

17. 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

18. Rise of the British Empire

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