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POLITICAL SCIENCE (U25)  (Dept. Info)Continuing & Professional Studies  (Policies)

U25 PolSci 418Impact: The attack on America; Measurable Social, Political and Economic Outcomes3.0 UnitsLab Required
Description:We will use North's (1990) framework for analysis to evaluate outcomes. We will look at data from two distinct perspectives, over time, as follows: 1.) The Taliban/Afghanistan Perspective. Essentially, we will consider each category in the model, looking for change over time, to understand how the Afghanistan perspective evolved. We will look at Afghanistan culture and related institutional constraints regarding their affect on the policy outcome in Afghanistan (i.e., why did they do it?). We will look at opportunism and the roles of individual public entrepreneurs as they affected change and, ultimately, outcomes. What were the interactions? What did they tell themselves, etc.? We will take a close look at how the taliban interpreted and were affected by CIA actions during the recent Soviet/Afghanistan War. We will look at the affect of rapid, or discontinuous change in Afghanistan, and contrast that with change in the U.S., which is much more incremental. We will also predict the future, given different scenarios and possibilities. 2.) The U.S. Perspective. We will consider each of the categories in the model. Our time frame would begin with the end of WW II. It will examine the U.S. perspective on the establlishment of the Soviet Empire and Israel, come forward in time through the Soviet/Afghanistan War. Then we will analyze our Middle East policy during those and subsequent years. The focus will be on U.S. interactions. How did these interactions affect outcomes? We will be interested in why the U.S. was vulnerable to the 11 September attack. We will be interested in what happened as a result of the attack, to include social, political and economic changes. We probably will predict the future, again, under different scenarios.
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