Write a 200-300 word response to the following prompts:
1.Exemplify a few resource- rich countries that can be classified as a rentier- state as well. Discuss why the ‘resource-rich rentier states’ are not necessarily able to achieve economic growth and development.
2.Discuss the whys of the Pros/Cons of the ‘outsourcing ‘ used by the US industry, including MNCs. How about in the host developing countries where they do businesses as well?
3.What is a hypothesis? Based on developing countries, generate any one hypothesis relevant to development (political, economic, social, religious, cultural, etc.).
Discuss how you can ‘empirically’ test the hypothesis ‘quantitatively’ (quantitative approach) and/or ‘qualitatively’ (qualitative approach). How about a cross-national vs. longitudinal analysis?
Finally, what do you think should be the main stages of the ‘scientific’ research process in the study of IR as well?
4. Discuss strength/weakness of the ‘relative deprivation theory’ in explaining internal conflict in developing countries. Which theory/theories you think can ‘complement’ the weakness, if any? Please exemplify at least one conflict-stricken country.
5. What were the Millennium Development Goals (MDCs) of the UN? How about the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? Choose a few key differences between the two development goals and justify your choice in the discussion.
6. What is the developmentalism? Assess the
weakness/strength of the developmetanlism in defining the ‘development’ appropriate for strategies required for the development of the Third World.
7.How has China’s foreign policy approach changed under the Xi Jinping administration in the PRC? Please site an example to support your response.
8. Gender inequality has become an important foreign policy topic. Would the world be a more peaceful place if females where equally represented at the national level (ex. equal number of male and female Senators).
