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| 1 | -Overview of the Search: 4ir | Four Worlds (4W) | Planning - Case Teaching | 4ir | globalization, security, development, human rights | contemporary | global | ||
| Summary: This overview is a specialized table of contents to assist review of database materials for lesson planning. In outreach to local high schools, USC student volunteers in the Teaching International Relations Program (TIRP) are equipped to teach analytical tools using cases and activities for decision-making and problem-solving. Because the database serves a variety of projects, custom tags will select limited collections designated for TIRP topics. Guides for selected items will point to further database resources. | |||||||||
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| 2 | APM: Get rid of U.S. farm subsidies | Four Worlds (4W) | Case Reading - News & Editorials | glo-trade, glo-dev, 4ir | political economy, development, human rights, role of government, election politics | contemporary | United States, Africa | ||
| Summary: Thesis: "You want to fight global poverty, illegal immigration, and budget deficits, while giving American consumers a lift? Well, there isn't a simpler first step than to end farm subsidies and tariffs." Specifically mentions cotton subsidies' impact on Africa. Key issues: protectionism, rent seeking, global impact of domestic interests, interdependence of trade & development. Includes a 4W analysis. (Part of HSLC 2009: Capitalism Reconsidered) | |||||||||
| Source: American Public Media, Marketplace, copyright 2007. Scott Jagow, host, with commentary by Robert Reich. Customized transcript by USC CALIS, 2009, for the USC High School Case Teaching Initiative. Downloads are for educational use only. APM hosts the transcript and listen link at http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2007/10/10/get_rid_of_us_farm_subsidies/ | |||||||||
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| 3 | Cell Phones, Poverty, Civil War, and Okapi | Four Worlds (4W) | Case Reading - Other | 4ir | globalization, civil war, trade, culture, impact of technology | contemporary | Congo, Africa | ||
| Summary: A 2-page case that demonstrates "uneven globalization" and the "collision of the four worlds" in the Congo. An illustration is provided in "Coltan: from the Congolese war zones to your cell phone" that traces the production process and the step-by-step connections from the Congo to personal items like computers, play stations and mobile phones. (This item is not linked. See source.) | |||||||||
| Source: USC School of International Relations -- Lamy, Steven- Professor, 2001. This case is under copyright restrictions and is only available to TIRP volunteers who are currently teaching sessions at local high schools. TIRP students must request a copy in person at the CALIS office. (This item is not linked.) | |||||||||
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| 4 | Death by Transfer | Concept Map | Role Play / Simulation | 4ir, ipe-basic | globalization, political economy, development, interdependence, labor | contemporary | n/a | ||
| Summary: Students read a case and role-play the different "actors" - their needs, priorities, and options to respond to the "market adjustments" of global economy. Reveals ways in which multinational businesses can influence individuals and communities, and will learn about "what happens to working people when the established economic interdependence of a community is upset because of global economic opportunities." | |||||||||
| Source: American Forum for Global Education - www.globaled.org (Intercom 74 by David C. King, Global Perspectives in Education, 1974) | |||||||||
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| 5 | Four Worlds of International Relations | Four Worlds (4W) | Think-Pair-Share | 4ir, 4ir core | governance, globalization | contemporary | global | ||
| Summary: Short overview by Professor Steven Lamy of the Four Worlds analytical framework. Includes a standard case study worksheet to examine "how the four worlds collide" by determining the central question, and by identifying the actors in each world along with their conflicting priorities and different sources of power. | |||||||||
| Source: USC CALIS | |||||||||
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| 6 | Four Worlds of Stability: Factoring is Analyzing | Four Worlds (4W) | Think-Pair-Share | 4W intro, 4ir, gvnc-basic | nation building, failed states, fragile states | contemporary | global | ||
| Summary: 4W of stability -a ranking exercise to examine factors that create and maintain stability in society. Uses a jigsaw where World Leader groups first rank five factors for their assigned world. Then leaders form 4W teams to select and rank five factors across Four Worlds. Part 2 applies the factors to destabilizing events in the news. Part 3 clarifies the purpose of social science factors: identify and relate factors, determine cause & effect, or make a claim about the most important factor --all are skills in "the science of the social sciences". Provides illustration of "the math analogy" --How factoring in math is a similar process to factoring in social science. Closes with an overview of factors in 4W of globalization. | |||||||||
| Source: USC CALIS | |||||||||
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| 7 | Globalization Across Four Worlds | Four Worlds (4W) | Think-Pair-Share | 4ir core | globalization, global governance, international political economy, global civil society | contemporary | global | ||
| Summary: Describes aspects of human activity in each of the Four Worlds (4W): political, economic, cultural, social --4W of globalization. Followed by a worksheet example for applying the dynamics of globalization to cases related to international political economy. | |||||||||
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| 8 | Kiva: Loans that change lives | Four Worlds (4W) | Think-Pair-Share | 4ir, glo-dev | development, access to credit, micro-finance | contemporary | global | ||
| Summary: A brief Kiva video (1:30) and transcript provide a 4W exercise. PPT has 3 dimensions. Part 1 identifies factors in the economic and social worlds to explain how Kiva is a way to "rethink charity". Part 2 connects elements of the Kiva site to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and asks how Kiva lenders/investors are addressing development through a new role for civil society. Part 3 connects market conditions needed for social well-being; access to credit as a human right; 4W of globalization with increased influence of NGOs. Supports related topics: 4W factors of mobility and the means to prosper that are part of the American Dream. | |||||||||
| Source: USC CALIS | |||||||||
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Handout: 0067.doc
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| ID: 67 | |||||||||
| 9 | LAT: Oil and Power in Latin America | Four Worlds (4W) | Case Reading - News & Editorials | 4ir | human rights, global governance, globalization | contemporary | Ecuador, Peru, United States, Latin America | ||
| Summary: Case illustrates the "competing power networks" of the Four Worlds - the power relationship between the economic & cultural worlds is changing to a more level playing field through support from changes in the political & social worlds. Includes a 4W analysis exercise. Offers an historical parallel between industrialization and globalization. Case question includes: Review the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) to identify and explain which rights are specifically being upheld in this case. Part of HSLC 2009: Capitalism Reconsidered | |||||||||
| Source: Los Angeles Times - full text online. Developed for classroom use by USC CALIS for the High School Case Teaching Initiative. | |||||||||
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| ID: 391 | |||||||||
| 10 | NPR: Movie Follows Fish Through the Global Economy | Four Worlds (4W) | Case Reading - News & Editorials | 4ir, environ-set | globalization, development, failed state, role of media | contemporary | Tanzania, Russia, Rwanda, Europe | ||
| Summary: Main ideas: the dilemma of our time is the fragmentation of responsibility; irony of harder times during peace times. Refers to the documentary film, Darwin?s Nightmare. Includes a 4W analysis of globalization. Part of HSLC 2013: Globalization, Governance and Human Security. | |||||||||
| Source: NPR copyright 2006. Renee Montagne, 02-22-2006. Customized transcript by USC CALIS, 2006. Launched with NPR permission as support materials for the High School Case Teaching Initiative. Downloads are for educational use only. | |||||||||
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| ID: 270 | |||||||||
| 11 | Power of the Internet: A Turning Point in History? | Four Worlds (4W) | Case Reading - News & Editorials | 4ir core | transparency, accountability, ethics, whistleblowers, civic engagement, activism, efficacy | contemporary | global | ||
| Summary: A 4W analysis of the Internet to explore its impact and evaluate how or if it has created a turning point in human history. Follows with excerpts from an interview with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, conducted by CBS 60 Minutes in 2011, that highlights controversies of increased transparency and accountability -- as more "power of the people" -- vs. security risks. (Part of materials for HSLC 2011: Failed States) | |||||||||
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| ID: 592 | |||||||||
| 12 | Two Worlds that Protect & Serve | Four Worlds (4W) | Think-Pair-Share | 4ir core, ethics-hr, civic-ed | governance, role of civil society, civic engagement, social responsibility | contemporary | global | ||
| Summary: A table compares government agencies in the political world with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in the social world to specify the relationship between government and civil society. Central question: For the first time in history, a global civil society is gaining strength. What does that mean to you? -- Includes a 4W frame of how individuals can be actors in each world and to unpack the significance of quotes by Thomas Paine and Ben Franklin. Includes quotes by George HW Bush and Barack Obama regarding images of American society. | |||||||||
| Source: USC CALIS | |||||||||
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| ID: 546 | |||||||||