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In recent times, two major and contradictory trends have emerged in global affairs. On one hand, the world is becoming increasingly integrated economically. Markets, investments, trade, and production flow across borders as never before. Supply chains are transnational. Capital knows no boundaries. Huge economic zones that subsume nations are evolving, including the European zone, the projected TPP and transatlantic zones, the Chinese-sponsored zone, MERCOSUR, the Pacific Alliance, and the ASEAN zone. On the other hand, political differences and tensions between nations are growing—the West versus Russia and China versus its maritime neighbors (especially Japan), as well as in the Middle East, Latin America, and Africa. Can the contradictions between economic and political trends be reconciled or will they clash and big global conflicts result? Will there be trade wars between economic blocs? Who will be the winners and losers? How will this impact the nations in the vortex such as Israel, South Korea, and Turkey? How will presidential politics affect US policies in 2016? Will the global balance of economic and political power change? How will the outcome shape world politics in the next decade or so? This course focuses on these and other critical issues in the context of current world affairs.
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