Schedule for Presentations

Week 7

Tuesday- Rwanda, USSR, Spain

Week 8

Monday- Armenia, Cambodia, Germany

Tuesday- USA, Japan

Reading on Genocide

Read about it here

Genocide?

Was the Irish famine of 1845 just bad luck, economic policy or genocide?

Genocide

For this unit we’ll be working on area studies of your choosing, the groups are as follows:

• Soviet Union: Kulaks
• Japanese in China in the 30’s and 40s
• Nazi murder of Jews
• USA and Native Americans
• Spanish and Aztecs
• Cambodia under Pol Pot
• Rwanda
• Armenia

There should be an answerable thesis question and a section for each person to answer their one page part. A suggested format is:

• Background
• The Case
• Discussion/Evidence
• Conclusions

(or some variation of the above)

Extreme Nationalism in Bad Taste

Article here

Pervasive Nationalism

Read more here about the measure of time and space

Questions and Discussions on Nation-States

What are the pros and cons regarding the nation(-building) process you looked at?

What myths are involved? How are they borne out in policy, institutions, etc.

Is the nation-state the ideal arrangement in world politics from the point of view of your study?

What are the next steps in this process?