Management
Referencing Styles : Turabian | Pages : 13
This is an open-book final essay
assignment. Students are expected to provide appropriate citations and
references within each essay response. Each of your answers should be
350-400 words in length. (Turabian Style Standard applies.) All
responses to assignments should be written in Word and uploaded as
attachments within the Assignments section of the classroom. Use 12 pt.
font and double-space. Be sure to put your name and class information on
the document and put your name on the file, such as, your last name and
FA as the file name, e.g. DellerFA.doc or DellerFA.docx. Insert page
numbers. Assignments will be graded using a rubric appropriate for your
class level. Each question is worth 25 points. Answer all. 1. 1.
Evaluate Jeffrey Record’s basic argument in Bounding the War on
Terrorism. Is he correct or not? Why or why not? 2. 2. In a news item
during the Bush administration, a reporter for the New York Times noted
that, “From the very start of the American occupation of Iraq, at least
some in the Bush administration saw an opportunity to curtail the
influence of Iran’s radical Shiite leaders by producing an alternative,
moderate center of Shiite Islam that would effectively neuter Tehran in
ideological, political and strategic terms. This was abundantly clear to
Iran’s clerical rulers, whose paramount priority since they seized
power in 1979 has been to preserve their revolution and their grip on
their own country.” Has this aspiration by some Bush policy-makers
proven true or has some other reality developed? What does this
observation say about the nature of war? 3. Does the U.S. Face a Future
of Never-ending Sub-national & Trans-national Violence?, Thomas
Barnett states that: The post-Cold War era has witnessed an amazing
“downshifting” of the source of threats to global stability. In this
short span of history, the world has moved from an era in which global
nuclear war was the dominant threat, through a transitional era in which
it seemed that regional rogues would become the primary source of
system instability, to one in which it is increasingly recognized that
trans-national or non-state actors will constitute the main source of
violence – sometimes of a mass nature – that has the capacity to
perturb, even in a significant fashion, the functioning of the global
economy. In effect, America’s definition of the threat has de-escalated
from an “evil empire” to “evil regimes” to “evil actors.” What are the
implications for American strategic planning based on Barnett’s
assessment of the global threat environment? A proper response will
include examples and references from the assigned readings in this
course. 4. In his assessment of the Israeli-Hezbollah War, Anthony
Cordesman provided some preliminary lessons learned from that conflict.
Demonstrate how a parallel can be drawn between the Israeli-Hezbollah
case and that of the United States and Al Qaeda. Discuss the
implications of this assessment for the “global war on terror.”
Supporting Materials record_boundingwaronterrorIRLS603.pdf (373 KB)
BushIraqPlanAnalysisIRLS603.doc (37 KB) BarnettonviolenceIRLS603.pdf
(129 KB) Cordesman060817_isr_hez_lessonsIRLS603.pdf (1008 KB)