A Deep Dive into Character and How a Leader Uses a Country’s Resources
Discusses the various levels of analysis necessary to understand the workings and status of a country. Nye, specifically, highlights the importance of analyzing a country’s leader in order to better understand its power.
please give some consideration to and choose a world leader from a country other than the United States. I highly encourage you to pick a country and a leader that you know little, if nothing, about.
Research and study this individual; then write a 4-page essay responding to the following:
- Why did you choose this person?
- The basic bibliographic information about your leader: age, family backgrounds schooling, career and political / military career. What party(its) has she or he ever belonged to.
- Discuss your leader’s primary political agenda for his/her country – what does he/she want to accomplish?
- Identify 2 key programs or policies that he/she has promoted and what response those programs received from the citizenry of that country?
- Please discuss and define hard and soft power (outlined in Ch. 2). Has your leader’s country ever undergone a domestic (inside the borders) crisis during her or his time in office? If so, what was the crisis and how did she / he respond?
- Has your leader’s country experienced a war or other external threat? If so, how did your leader respond? What hard or soft power tools did she/he use to navigate that situation? And, what was the result?
- Finally, discuss how this leader is perceived both inside AND outside that country’s borders. Are they regarded positively/negatively? Both? Provide specific examples.
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