In what ways is globalization determining the policies of sovereign nation-states in the Global South? Keep in mind especially economic and social policies while framing your answer.

What will be an ideal response?


Students should discuss in detail the idea of convergence, according to which globalization will end-up forcing nation-states to adopt similar—if not identical—economic and social policies.

Political Science

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Which of the following describes part of the problem that helped make the Cuban Missile Crisis so dangerous?

a. States were behaving as unitary actors instead of taking into account the will of the people. b. Inappropriate actions by insubordinate members of the military threatened to drag the U.S. and Soviet Union into war. c. The U.S. was pressured by allies to act aggressively for balance-of-power reasons. d. The Soviet Union was a “failed state” and thus was unable to control the desires of its own military apparatus

Political Science

How is the concept of the mountain climber syndrome manifested in the arena of health-care policy?

What will be an ideal response?

Political Science

When politicians try to influence the "spin" the media give to their actions or issues, they engage in which of these?

a. issue control b. issue framing c. media control d. issue politicizing

Political Science

Nigeria has a __________ system

a. parliamentary b. semipresidential c. presidential d. plural executive

Political Science