Welcome to IR

 

Daily Do Now

 

Memorize all the countries of the world.

  What does good participation look like?
 

At the Un-national Monument

 

The Korean DMZ

  UN Fever
  Countries and States
 

Mending Wall

 

Sovereignty

  Introduction to Human Rights
 

Conflicting Principles of the UN Charter

  Adverserial Method
  Introduction to Debate
  Vampireland
  Libya
  Libya Debate
  Peace of Westphalia
  Introduction to Islam
  Life of the Prophet Muhammad
  Islam's Impact on Language and Art
  Islamic Beliefs
  5 Pillars of Islam
  The Muslim Mosque
  Cross-Border Pollution
  Multinational Corporations
  U.S. State Department
 

Diplomatic Recognition

  Vatican City
 

Introduction to the United Nations

 

The Six Principal Organs of the UN

  Security Council Veto
  Welcome to the Club
  Introduction to Parliamentary Procedure
  Model UN: Approving a New Member
  Nations and Nationalism
  Colonial Borders of Africa
  Sharia (Islamic Law)
  Precedence of Motions
  Types of UN Debate
  Structure of a Resolution
  Preambulatory and Operative Clauses
  Types of UN Resolutions
  Parliamentary Procedure (Part 2)
   

Homework:

A Fatwa on Purdah, Hijab

The Islamic Scarf Controversy in France

 

  10 Worst Places to be a Woman
 
Commission on the Status of Women
 
Resolution: The Veil
  Resolution: Sexualization of Girls
  Model UN: Commission on the Status of Women
 

Spaceship Analogy: Transcript and Questions

  Spaceship Analolgy: Review Presentation
  What is a "global problem"?
  Topic Choices (Presentation)
  Select Speech Topics
  Basic Thesis Formulas
 

Boycott Israel Speech

 

Rhetorical Analysis

  Structure of the Speech
  Guidlines for Speech
  Cultural Boundaries
  Sudan and South Sudan
  The Balkans and Kosovo
  Nationalism in India
  Kashmir
  Cultural Boundaries (Review)
  Failed States: Afghanistan and Somalia
 

Sanctions

  Apartheid South Africa
  Iraq Sanctions
 

Veni, Vidi, Vici

  Closing U.S. Bases
  Geography of the Middle East
  The Sykes-Picot Line
  American Imperialism
    Jewish Narrative (Part 1)
    Jewish Narrative (Part 2)
    Palestinian Narrative
  What is a Jew? What is a Palestinian?
    Palestine Since 1948
  Jerusalem
    Borders of Israel
  Israel's Big Mistake
 

De Jure and De Facto Borders of Israel

(Simplified Model?)

  Two Systems
  The Occupation Trap
  The Jewish Settler Movement
  The Rise of Religious Fundamentalism
  Two Solutions
    Is Israel a racist state?
    Israel's "Security Fence"
    The "Holocaust Industry"
  U.S. Financial Aid to Israel
  What is international law?
  Is International Law Really Law?
  Who enforces international laws?
  The UN Charter
 

GA and SC Resolutions

  • Notes
    Granada
 

History of the Security Council

  • Notes
     
  China and the United Nations
    How many Countries? (Review)
  Security Council Reform
     
  The International Court of Justice (ICJ)
  The International Criminal Court (ICC)
  The Laws of War
  The Invasions of Iraq
  The Occupation of Iraq
  The Insurgency
  The Counter-Insurgency
    Collateral Damage and Proportionality
    Collective Punishment
  Torture
  Treatment of Prisoners
  Putting Bush on Trial
    Sunni vs. Shia
    Hearts and Minds
    Human Rights
  Tragedy of the Commons
 

Introduction to Parliamentary Procedure

  What goes on at a MUN Meeting?
 

The Situtation in Chechnya

 

 

Post-simulation Analysis

    Vampires and Werewolves
 

What is International Law?

Globalization 101.org

    The Prisonner's Dillema
    Multinational and Transnational Corporations
    The Rules of War
    Global Warming
    Rainforests
    The Importance of a Thesis
  00aa Types of Theses
  00b Two Kinds of Paragraphs
  01 Presenting Evidence
  02 Your Works Cited Page
  03 In-Text Citations
  04 Citing Statistics
  05 Using Signal Phrases
  06 Practice with Appositives
  07 More Practice with Appositives and Statistics
  08 Quoting a Full Sentence
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09 Quoting a Phrase
  10 Quoting More Than One Sentence
  11 Practice Quoting Quotes
  12 Block Quotes
  13 More About Quotes
  14 Citing the Source for an Entire Paragraph
  15 Start Your Research
  16 Forming an Outline
  17 Writing Your Introduction and Conclusion
  18 Rebutting the Opposition
  19 In-Class Essay
  20 Formatting Checklist
  21 Research Questions
  Africa: Challenges in the 21st Century
  Genocide
  Global Economic Issues
  Global Environmental Issues
  Global Science and Technology Issues
  Human Rights
  Latin America: Challenges in the 21st Century
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    IR Theory
    Realism vs. Idealism
    The Prisonner's Dilemma
    "Better a sad Socrates than a happy pig."
  Life and Debt
    Humanitarian Interventions
  The Geography of Israel and Palestine
    Simplified Model
  Zionism and Palestinian Nationalism
  A Brief History of Palestine
  Afghanistan (partly-done)