http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1960-un-colonialism.html

What is the argument made in this UN Resolution? Why do you think it felt the need to issue this proclamation? Based on this text, what do you think are some of the arguments proposed in opposition to decolonization? Why do you think the UN dismissed those arguments?

Non-Alignment

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1941nehru.html

What did Nehru find appealing about communism? What did he find troubling about it? How does he seem to feel about capitalism? What is non-alignment? Why did he ultimately choose this path for India?

South Africa

What are the arguments this author uses in his "Case for Apartheid"? How does he justify his support of this system? Do these arguments remind you of theories we have seen in other contexts? If so, what are those theories?

What did the UN have to say about the system of apartheid in 1961 http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1961-un-southafrica1.html? What justification did it use for its arguments? What arguments did the African National Congress (http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_2/umkhonto.html) make during that same year? How were these two arguments the same? How were they different?

Globalization

What is the argument this author is making? Is she in favor of globalization or opposed?
What does she see as the benefits of the growing commonalities of world civilizations?
What does she see as the dangers?

The Graying of China

http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/core9/phalsall/texts/c-wnhol.html
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/chinpop.htm

According to Tom Hilditch, what adverse consequences has China's one-child policy had? Why have foreign governments been reluctant to confront China regarding these issues?
Based on Seth Haison's account, why has the one-child policy begun to fade in certain parts of China? How might this affect China's efforts to deal with its aging population?