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The document assigns teams to research and profile political leaders who have maintained power in their countries for an extended period of time. Each team will produce a 2-page briefing paper on their assigned leader, addressing their country's situation internationally, the leader's rise to and maintenance of power, and how their rule has evolved over time. Teams will then discuss their findings to identify similarities and differences between the leaders and draw conclusions about how power tends to concentrate under individual rulers.
The document assigns teams to research and profile political leaders who have maintained power in their countries for an extended period of time. Each team will produce a 2-page briefing paper on their assigned leader, addressing their country's situation internationally, the leader's rise to and maintenance of power, and how their rule has evolved over time. Teams will then discuss their findings to identify similarities and differences between the leaders and draw conclusions about how power tends to concentrate under individual rulers.
The document assigns teams to research and profile political leaders who have maintained power in their countries for an extended period of time. Each team will produce a 2-page briefing paper on their assigned leader, addressing their country's situation internationally, the leader's rise to and maintenance of power, and how their rule has evolved over time. Teams will then discuss their findings to identify similarities and differences between the leaders and draw conclusions about how power tends to concentrate under individual rulers.
I have listed below a number of political leaders who have maintained their position of power over an extended period of time (there are a couple that are more recent, but appear to be part of a family dynasty or an oligarchy). Your team will be assigned one of these men (they all are). Your job is to provide us with a briefing on the following: 1. What is the situation of this nation in the international arena? Is it of strategic or economic importance (to whom)? Is it a former colony (and of whom)? What nations might have an interest in this persons role? 2. What is the history of this persons rise to power? Did he get elected, inherit the position, lead a coup? Is his background in the military, politics, private enterprise? Who are his constituents? 3. What means has this person employed to sustain his rule? Has there been any limitation on the press, on opposition parties? 4. Has the nature of this persons rule changed over time? Has the country benefited? In what ways? What have been the costs? What future do you foresee? 5. Are there questions I havent asked that are of interest with your subject? How does this person fit within Russells categorization of characteristics of people based on the way in which they gained power? Expound away. Were interested in how individuals come to power, how that power affects them and how the tools of state are employed to extend power. Were there mechanisms in place to limit individual rule and, if so, what happened? Divide the tasks. 1. Russia chief of state: President Vladimir Putin 2. Algeria President Abdelaziz Bouteflika 3. Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe 4. China President Xi Jinping 5. Syria President Bashar al-Assad 6. Rwanda President Paul Kagame 7. Saudi Arabia King Abdullah 8. Turkey President Tayyip Erdoan 9. Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong 8:00 #1-3 9:00 #4-6 10:00 #7-9 Ill be looking for a 10-15 minute profile on these gentlemen. I dont want a power point but a ~2 page briefing paper that you will share with other groups. Provide your chief sources, including at least two articles you have located through a library database. You may use Wikipedia, but follow up with at least one of their citations. You will share your findings with the other groups in your mentor session and then again with two other groups in the main session. In your discussions look for similarities and differences and see if you can draw any conclusion about the tendency for leaders to gather power onto themselves. Use library journal search to find The Economist . Also search nytimes.com. Mentor presentation 1/22. Main session 1/27.
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