Eu papers due Thursday (periods 5/6 please turn in before lunch)

Must be a hard copy including a MLA bibliography with brief description of bias of your sources

Russia Political Cartoons

Political Cartoons

<cagle.com> has great examples of political cartoons to get you started on this assignment.

Create a political cartoon illustrating Putin's centralization of power using symbols relevant to Russia’s political history.  Good political cartoons include perspective so you must write from the perspective of an ethnic, religious, or other social cleavage. 

Friday you will present your cartoon in class.  You will vote for which cartoon has the best symbolism/perspective and which cartoon has best artwork.

The two topics / events you may focus on are:

Putin's crack down on regional autonomy / centralizing power

and

Treatment of Chechnya (autonomous region (muslim))

Read Chapter 4- section 3 for Tuesday 2/24

Russia Power Point

Link to power point - Russia

Russian Vocabulary

1. democratic centralism (party elites decide policies)
2. collectivization
3. glastnost
4. soft authoritarianism
5. market reform
6. privatization voucher
7. mafia
8. oligarchs (can be considered civil society due to great influence in elections and policy making)
9. pyramid debt
10. politburo (top policy making group, 12 men)
11. nomenklatura
12. secretariat
13. power vertical (hierarchy)
14. asymmetrical federalism
15. civil society
16. federal system
17. perestroika
18. shock therapy (yeltsin, free-market reforms followed by political reforms)
19. duma (elections 93' 95' 99' 03' 07' 11') (changes to PR, threshold)
20 federation council (appointed by Putin, state governors dismissed)
21. Boris Yeltsin
22 Mikhail Gorbachev
23. Yukos oil
24. Mikhail Khordovsky (oligarch jailed for announcing opposition candidacy for president)
25. illiberal democracy
26. Russian egalitarianism (equality of result) (contrast to western equality of opportunity)
27. Constitution of 1993
28. referendum (on presidency and constitution; chechnya)
29. cleavages (nationality, religion, social class, urban/rural
30. United russia (not ideological, pro-Putin (PRI))
31. The Communist Party (CPRF) (central planning, nationalism, regaining of territories)
32. Liberal Democrats (extreme nationalism, anti-Semitic leader, sexist)
33. Fair Russia
34. Yabloko (reformist, pro-democratic)
35. Union of Right Forces (reformist, free market, privatization)
36. Chechnya (referendum of 93')

Russia... aka "The Big Red Dog" aka Putin land

Read Chapter 4 section 1 by Wednesday

We will be breaking into small groups to discuss Russia's last century of politics and economics through their powerful leaders.

EU Test

Friday we took our EU Test and turned in your "valentine" crosswords!  They looked very lovely!

Greek PM and the Bailout

Read the following article GREECE

Is the debt problem Greece's or the EU's?

European Union Paper

Specific Requirements for the European Union Paper

For the paper on the European Union you must choose to write on how a specific country has responded to the issues (CAP, EMU/ Euro, immigration) presented by the evolving currency and trade policies.  You should attempt to draw upon several sources (The Economist, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, The Guardian, BBC news) with different perspectives.  The paper should be between two and three typed pages with no less than 4 sources.  Include an MLA formatted bibliography with a brief critique of bias and credibility of each source.

You need to frame your topic in the first paragraph of your paper.  Choosing to focus on one country may make it easier when discussing specific issues.

6 paragraphs
     - Intro (country description, economy, population, GDP, etc) Information that will help explain benefits/ drawbacks to immigration/ CAP/ or common currency
     - 2 paragraphs outlining the programs (EU citizenship, CAP, Euro)
     - 2 paragraphs explaining those programs from your countries' perspective
     - final paragraph summaring the pros/cons of EU membership for your country

20 pts

Ideas and content (14 pts)

Bibliography with bias critique (1.5 its each)

Due Thursday, February 26th

Alphabet Soup

Alphabet soup

You need to create a crossword that includes 10 of the following acronyms.  Your clue must be the definition and/or characteristics of the term, not the full words.

 Use the following website to create your crossword.  Print it out and bring to class on Friday to share with a partner.  The website only allows you to enter 20 words so you decide which other 10 terms/words/acronyms from the first 3 chapters to use.

General terms

GDP

SMD

FPTP

PR

NGO

Mexico

PRI

PAN  - - - For political parties, identify the platform supporters of the party

PRD

NAFTA

ISI

WTO

Britain

NHS

QUANGOS

European Union (choose 3)

ECSC

EEC

CAP

EMU

IMF

ECJ

CFSP

TEU

ECB

COREPER

CAP

Read pages 420-421

How does CAP work? (simple explanation)
Who benefits?
Which countries like CAP? Which don't?
How much of the EU budget does CAP take up?
How has CAP been reformed?

Read the following Article ECONOMIST

In the past the Economist called CAP "the single worst idea"

What are the author's arguments against the CAP?

EU Vocabulary

1. Broadening
2. Commission
3. Common Market
4. Council of Ministers
5. Deepening
6. Democratic deficit
7. EC
8. EEC
9. ECSC
10. European Central Bank (ECB)
11. European Council
12. European Court of Justice (ECJ)
13. European Parliament
14. European Monetary Union
15. CAP (Common Agricultural Policy)
16. Citizenship
17. Lisbon Treaty (2009)
18. Maastricht Treaty (1991-2)
19. MEPs
20. monetary policy
21. requirements for EU/ euro membership
22. Subsidiarity
23. supranational organization
24. 3 pillars (which have been fulfilled and which only proposed)
25. Qualified Majority
26. Co-Decision
27. Austerity
28. Sovereign Debt

Greece and the Sovereign Debt Issue

Read the following article: Alexis Tsipras and the Newly Elected Syriza Party

9-3 quiz on Thursday

EU Institutions

Identify the important features of the following Institutions:

European Commission
Council of Ministers
EU Parliament
European Court of Justice (ECJ)
European Council (unofficial)

How many members? Elected or appointed? by whom? power (decisions regarding legislation)?

Using (5) sticky notes, organize these institutions in a flow chart to show the legislative and policy making process in the EU

Include:
QMV
codecision
double majority
transparency
democratic deficit