Politics and Markets

Summer 2006

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Studio # 2

 

Group Discussions:

 

The studio groups focus on five thematic areas relating to the problems we analyze in this class.  The groups are:

1)    Drug trafficking

2)    Weapons trafficking

3)    Weapons of Mass Destruction

4)    Strategy of Insurgency and Counterinsurgency

5)     Ideology

 

Group Goals: 

 

Each group serves under secondment to the Inter-state Coalition for International Security.  The goal of the group is to develop concrete policy recommendations. 

 

The group should first, define the problem; second, identify sources of information to collect necessary data on the problem; third discuss the problem on the basis of collected information; fourth, adopt a set of policy recommendations; fifth, discuss these recommendations with other groups; sixth, develop a presentation of policy recommendation; seventh, each individual should prepare a 3-5 page policy paper on the problem, data, and recommendations; and finally, deliver a presentation to the class on July 25th or July 26th. 

 

Task: 

 

Meet with the other members of your group to develop a plan to achieve your group goals. 

 

 

Gregory Gleason   Social Science Bldg. Room 2064
 

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