Country of concern: UNITED STATES
1. First, analyze the prompt provided and consider how the question correlates to the dynamics of your country of concern.
2. Second, Writers will critically analyze the topic’s complexities for the designated reflection and answer the question outlined within the prompt. Within the submission, students must identify, compare, and contrast four assumptions/arguments from two of the required readings and discuss how the central points of the reading compare or contrast to the dynamics of their country of concern using current events (news) and one of the resources/indexes provided to support your answer (e.g. Eurobarometer)
Simply put, you will answer the question by focusing on your country of concern. In your answer to the question, you will integrate at least four assumptions/arguments from two of the required readings’ and compare and contrast them to the current event realities of your country of concern. Remember, to read the question in its entirety and follow the writing specifications of this critical thinking and analysis course.
You must integrate at least four specific assumptions from two of the required readings from weeks 1 and 2 (one from each week) to answer the questions correlating to your country of concern.
Yes, you must integrate information/data from one of the resources/index pages provided regarding your specific country– the indexes change in each prompt.
Below, following each prompt –I have provided a list of websites to support your knowledge of your specific country of concern.
No, you can not integrate more than one country in the answer. Only your selected country of concern
Prompt 1: Nationalism and Climate Change
Increasingly security is no longer threatened by another ‘actor’ but by events, such as climate emergencies “resulting from rising greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) will disrupt economic, social and environmental systems – and therefore undermine security”. But is climate change/emergencies enough to promote local and/or foreign hostilities, the break-up/ending of trade agreements, inequity, and/or political and/or social instability? The reality is that when climate change is compounded by nationalistic values of inequity, elites’ drive for power, poverty, persecution, corruption, and/or a problematic social, economic, and/or political environment, it can lead to structural violence and conflict within a country and a possible spillover effect in the region and the international community.
Thus, answer the question, how has climate change (i.e. food insecurity; desertification; droughts; sea-level rise; flooding; access to clean water; and shifting weather patterns) influenced the promotion of corruption, exacerbated tensions (domestic or international), reinforced nationalistic values (constructive and/or deconstructive), AND prompted social, economic, and/or political conflict in your country of concern? (remember conflict is not always physical)
Index for the prompt:
https://climateknowledgeportal.worldbank.org/https://climateknowledgeportal.worldbank.org/
MUST INCLUDE INDEX IN ESSAY!!
Readings for this prompt:
“Gretchen Schrock”
“Werrell and Femia’s Climate changeWerrell and Femia’s Climate change”
MUST USE READINGS PROVIDED FOR EACH PROMPT!!!
Several criteria will be used to evaluate this assignment, including:
the degree to which the student answers (fully nor partially) the question regarding their country of concern; –6pts
the degree to which the student provides and integrates four assumptions/ arguments from the readings to answer the question when correlating to the environmental context of their chosen country of concern;– 6pts (1.5 pts per developed argument/assumption)
the degree to which the student illustrates comprehension of the current event in the answer to the prompt –3 pts
the degree to which students integrate information/data from the resource links (i.e. the IMUNA country profiles- see options below) provided in each prompt; –2 pts
the degree to which the student illustrates insightfulness and originality of comments about the complexities of their country of concern when answering the question; –3 pts
Grammar, spelling, and clarity of thought — 3 pts
Accurate in-text citation and reference page (APA or Chicago only, no exceptions) 2 pts
Submissions must be 3-4 pages (not including the reference page); — if you exceed or fail to meet the allotted page number, you will lose 3 points
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